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Dictionary Tricks
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Mac OS X comes with a built-in dictionary and app.
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Basis of the built in spell checking that is available to ALL Cocoa applications
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There are spelling options in MOST apps
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Edit-->Spelling. You can run the Spelling and Grammar checking on a document
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Turn on or off the "Check Spelling While Typing" feature.
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If a word is underlined Control+Click it to get suggested spelling and select the correct spelling to have it auto-corrected.
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You can also add common non-dictionary words that you may type a lot. Control+Clicking the red-underlined word and choosing "Learn Spelling"
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Looking up words
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Control+Click or right+click a word almost anywhere and you'll see a "Look Up in Dictionary" option.
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Depending on the Dictionary settings you'll either launch the Dictionary app or get a contextual panel.
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If you see the contextual pane clicking the "more…" button will open the entry in Dictionary.
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May need to highlight the work before Control+Clicking it to see the option
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May find the "Look Up In Dictionary" option under the "Services" menu.
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If you don't check System Preferences-->Keyboard and in the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in the 'Services' category look under 'Searching' section and make sure the "Look Up In Dictionary" item is checked.
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Hold Command+Control+D and hover over a word to see the definition in a contextual panel.
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Use Spotlight to get a definition
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Hover over the definition in the search results of the menubar search or click it to open that word in the Dictionary app.
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Inside the Dictionary
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Despite the fact that it shows the phonetic syntax of the word when you select it and copy+paste it pastes just the word without all the extra phonetic punctuation
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Clicking any word within a definition will give you the definition of that word.
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Once you drill down within a definition the search area will contain an orange "snap back" icon. Click that to return to the original definition.
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Dictionary also offers:
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A Thesaurus, Apple Dictionary, and Wikipedia
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Same drill down and snapback works there too.
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Front/Back Matter
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Accessed via the Go menu
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Offers things like a Language Guide, List of Presidents of the United States, text of the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution, Countries of the World, and listing of the Chemical Elements.
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Image plates fro viewing
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In the Finder go to the Go menu and choose Go To Folder…
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Enter '/Library/Dictionaries/New Oxford American Dictionary.dictionary/Contents/Images' and hit "Go"
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Switch to Coverflow view and you will see all the image plate for the Dictionary app illustrations.
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Credit goes to
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Dave Caolo (Sal-lo) for writing most of these u pin a TUAW 101 article about a year ago.
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Closing
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Priority to your emails.
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Hotline: 281-622-4269
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ideas for topics, subjects you'd like covered, etc.
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