Comments on: Understand Words Using DictionarySearch

By: David

David — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:02:44 +0000

In IE8 I have Google as my default search engine and The Free Dictionary as my only other search engine. That way I can highlight a word and chose to “Search with Google” or select “All Acellerators” and “Search with the The Free Dictionary”. Still one more click than I would like but it works well enough.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:41:16 +0000

SWEET!! Instead of a second dictionary, I set up for a Wikipedia search. Now all it takes is a right click and I can select a Google search, a dictionary look-up, or a Wikipedia search.

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@Twolane – It didn’t work for me until I added the first dictionary – the first set of fields when I clicked “Options” was blank.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:03:02 +0000

From google all you have to do is type “define:” followed by the word you wanna look up. For example if you wanted the definition for the word elephant you would just type define:elephant. It also works from the search box on the top right corner of your browser.

By: Tony Patriarche

Tony Patriarche — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:28:28 +0000

Great idea. I am always having trouble finding a dictionary via Google. I didn’t know there was a feature built into FireFox, but this sounds very flexible, which I like.

By: Twolane

Twolane — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:56:22 +0000

I can’t get it to work.

By: WOFall

WOFall — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:02 +0000

Or you could use Opera, which has had this functionality built in for a while. In fact, I believe IE also has something similar as of IE8. TBH I really don’t think you should have to install add-ons for something like this.

By: shoreke

shoreke — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:53:11 +0000

Highlight and right click a word in your Firefox browser and it does the same thing. And you don’t have to install extra software.