Looking for a little dictionay access program

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Jack Crane

I used to have a little program that was useful for reading email and
textfiles. I could double-click on a word I didn't know and my browser
would go out to, IIRC, dictionary.com and look it up. Anyone know of this
little gem?

Thanks,

Jack
 
Jack said:
I used to have a little program that was useful for reading email and
textfiles. I could double-click on a word I didn't know and my browser
would go out to, IIRC, dictionary.com and look it up. Anyone know of this
little gem?

Thanks,

Jack
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WordWeb, perhaps? (http://wordweb.info/free/)

"WordWeb is a cut-down version of the WordWeb Pro that is
free for personal use. It includes a comprehensive English
thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to look up words
from within most programs. Features of the free version include:
Definitions and synonyms
Proper nouns
Related words
Pronunciations
140 000 root words
115 000 synonym sets
Look up words in almost any program"

It may not match the charter of a.c.f but I'm a believer,
especially when posting in an insuficiently caffeinated state.


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Jack said:
Thanks, but that's not it.
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Nonetheless, it will do almost what you need. If you select a word or
phrase, hit Control-C and then open WordWeb, the word or phrase
(assuming it's correctly spelled) will appear along with it's
definition. And the nice thing about this is that it will do it even if
you're offline.
 
Nonetheless, it will do almost what you need. If you select a word or
phrase, hit Control-C and then open WordWeb, the word or phrase
(assuming it's correctly spelled) will appear along with it's
definition. And the nice thing about this is that it will do it even if
you're offline.
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Run WordWeb in the background while you are using your word processor.
Select a word and hit CTRL-ALT-W. Wordweb will pick up the highlit
word and show its definition. If it doesn't recognise the word it will
suggest an alternative and open the word list at an appropriate place
according to your current spelling. You can replace the word with a
single click and WordWeb will preserve capitalisation and punctuation
as included in the original highlighted section. Very clever program.
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David
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"sign here". I put "Sagittarius"
E-mail: justdas at iinet dot net dot au
 
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