. Dictionary For word nerds everywhere, the Dictionary (and Thesaurus) is a blessing—it a handy way to look up word definitions, pronunciations, and synonyms | . Dictionary For word nerds everywhere the Dictionary and Thesaurus is a blessing it a handy way to look up word definitions pronunciations and synonyms. To be precise Leopard now comes with electronic versions of seven reference works in one The entire New Oxford American Dictionary. The complete Oxford American Writers Thesaurus. A new dictionary of Apple terms from A UX to widget. Apparently there aren t any Apple terms that begin with X Y or Z. Wikipedia. Of course this famous open-source citizen-created encyclopedia isn t actually on your Mac. All Dictionary does is give you an easy way to search the online version and display the results right in the comfy Dictionary window. Figure 10-3. When you open the Dictionary it generally assumes that you want a word s definition top left . If you prefer to see the Wikipedia entry lower right at startup time instead for example choose Dictionary Preferences and drag Wikipedia upward so that it precedes New Oxford American Dictionary. That s all there is to it A Japanese dictionary thesaurus and Japanese-to-English translation dictionary Tip You don t ordinarily see the Japanese reference books. You have to turn them on in Dictionary Preferences. Mac OS X also comes with about a million ways to look up a word Double-click the Dictionary icon. You get the window shown at top in Figure 103. As you type into the Spotlight-y search box you home in on matching words double-click a word or highlight it and press Enter to view a full typographically elegant definition complete with sample sentence and pronunciation guide. Tip And if you don t recognize a word in the definition click that wordto look up its definition. Each word turns blue and underlined when you point to it as a reminder. You can then double-click again in that definition and on and on and on. You can then use the History menu the and buttons on the toolbar or the - and - keystrokes to go back and forward in your chain of lookups. It s worth exploring the
