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Enable keyboard shortcut to look up word in dictionary
command ⌘control ⌃D is the built-in shortcut for this, performing a Look Up on the current mouse position, as if you'd used Force Touch.
grg♦
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How to Remove a Word from Dictionary of Google Chrome?
On macOS Chrome 60, settings do not let you access the dictionary. Words are actually added in two places where you can manually edit them:
~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Custom\...
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look up a word in Dictionary.app in Terminal
I found a solution using Swift 4.
#!/usr/bin/swift
import Foundation
if (CommandLine.argc < 2) {
print("Usage: dictionary word")
}else{
let argument = CommandLine.arguments[1]
let ...
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Firefox: Is there a way to add a "look up" option to right-click 'context' menu?
Look Up has a system-wide key command, if that's any use to you.
Default is Cmd ⌘ Ctrl ⌃ D .
You just hover the mouse over the word you want, no click needed.
I tested it works in Firefox.
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Where is the New Oxford American Dictionary stored?
In 10.14 (and possibly earlier), the dictionaries have moved to
/System/Library/Assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX/
There is one .asset directory for each downloaded ...
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Can iOS' builtin dictionary be accessed/browsed as an independent app?
In iOS 12 Apple provided the free Shortcuts App. You may have to download it from the App Store if you've deleted it. Shortcuts can do what you need and a lot more.
The following simple shortcut is a ...
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Delete misspelled words from user dictionary in macOS
Open finder and search for your misspelled word. If the custom dictionary is stored in a text file, it will come up. Open the file in TextEdit, remove the word, and save.
Using this technique I ...
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How to fix Dictionary look up text color in Dark mode?
After searching the Internet and experimenting I was able to produce a solution. You have to create a DefaultStyle.css file and put it in Contents subdirectory for each dictionary you want to fix. The ...
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macOS Mojave, Dictionary.app: How to install dictionaries to offline computer?
They are located in (HighSierra)
Aside from this, you will find packaged dictionaries here:
~/Library/Dictionaries/
there is also the words file here /usr/share/dict/words
User specific ...
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Where is the IPA pronunciation option in Dictionary?
I see it on my Mac. You have to change it in preferences, and then look up a word...
Monterey 12.3.1 (21E258)
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Add and remove custom words from the Gboard iOS keyboard dictionary
Adding custom words is done by typing them once. Once typed once, the word will be available using Glide Typing. It may not have a high priority, but gliding accurately enough will choose it, and the ...
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Converting macos dictionaries to portable format
Dictionaries used to be in /System/Library/Dictionaries, but they were moved (c. Sierra?) to various subfolders in /System/Library/Assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX.
The ...
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macOS Big Sur Dictionary.app doesn't use system proxy
This phenomenon is not unique to Big Sur—it likely dates back to when the Dictionary application was first introduced in Tiger. @1110101001 did some reverse engineering to figure out what's going on.
...
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How can I refresh the macOS dictionary?
I figured this out myself in the end. One needs to relaunch the com.apple.applespell service (from the command line).
launchctl stop com.apple.applespell
launchctl start com.apple.applespell
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Where are the Dictionary.app dictionary files located in MacOS Big Sur?
The Finder (Spotlight) doesn't include system files in its results.
Dictionaries are now downloaded when selected, so they fall into the murky file path of:
/System/Library/AssetsV2/...
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Why are my Spotlight results so awful?
Definitions are derived in order of preferences set in Dictionary app. By default, Apple Dictionary is before Oxford dictionaries.
In order to get a Oxford English Dictionary (or any other dictionary ...
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how to log the search history in mac dictionary
The following AppleScript code can be used in an Run AppleScript action as an Automator Service, and assigned a keyboard shortcut to act on a selected word to open it in the Dictionary, and log it, if ...
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Configuring a Mac to use Oxford spelling
LibreOffice's British English dictionary has support for Oxford English. You can download the .dic and .aff files from https://github.com/ropensci/hunspell/tree/master/inst/dict and place the files in ...
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look up a word in Dictionary.app in Terminal
I installed dict from homebrew so now when I use dict from command line it's working simply. I needed this one for my custom emacs configuration
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look up a word in Dictionary.app in Terminal
checkout this github repo:
https://github.com/aztack/osx-dictionary
install： brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/takumakei/osx-dictionary/master/osx-dictionary.rb --HEAD
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Dictionary application needs to download dictionary "Apple Dictionary" before use
The Apple Support article “How to free up storage space on your Mac” mentions:
Other ways that macOS helps automatically save space
macOS Sierra and later automatically takes these additional ...
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Dictionary App constantly downloading dictionaries
I've experienced this problem once in a while, and find that it's due to the DictionaryServiceHelper process freezing. To fix it, first I quit Dictionary, and then I open a terminal and type:
pkill -...
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macOS Mojave, Dictionary.app: How to install dictionaries to offline computer?
Now in MacOS Catalina the folder is apparently /System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX. There's also another folder called /System/Library/AssetsV2/...
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How to copy and paste in built-in dictionary
There doesn’t seem to be a way to copy from the built in dictionary, but there are workarounds.
As of recent versions of iOS, I simply take a screenshot and copy the text. Use the icon in the lower ...
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"No Local Dictionary Available" error from dictionary after upgrading from Sierra to Catalina
I think it's worth trying a reinstallation of Catalina. I've reinstalled macOS countless times to solve odd issues like this and while it may seem extreme, it's quite safe and often the simplest and ...
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Locating the file in which a dictionary word is stored
Through a process of elimination, I have determined that the word is (erroneously) in the system wide spell checker.
The file isn't in your local spell check dictionary. This is easy to check - ...
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Where are dictionaries stored in MacOS?
As noted before the dictionaries on macOS 10.15 are located in /System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX.
A list of installed dictionaries could look like this:
$ ...
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The IPA in Oxford Dictionary of English is wrong
If you don't like something in one of the Oxford dictionaries, you have to contact the publisher and ask for a change. Apple has nothing to do with the content of these dictionaries, they just buy ...
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