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Dictionary word lookup with a single gesture. https://media.giphy.com/media/Vg5tebSFuj1DFtHwrd/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/Vg5tebSFuj1DFtHwrd/giphy
by Roybot 6y ago
Dictionary word lookup with a single gesture.
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- hooda 6y agoTap on a word with 3 fingers.
- donatj 6y agoYou can also hover over the word and hit Command-Shift-D for people not using a trackpad.
- GolDDranks 6y agoSadly, that used to work better than it does now. From some versions ago, it was upgraded to be "smarter" and do google searches and link lookups and whatnot. I'm nowadays struggling to get the dictionary lookup shown. That's a shame; as a non-native speaker it's a super helpful feature. I've been trying to disable the other shenanigans, but without much success.
- GolDDranks 6y agoWoah, I found a way to fix it! You need to remove the checkbox "Show Spotlight results in <whatever the feature's name is in English>" in Spotlight settings. I wouldn't thought that I need to go look for settings elsewhere to fix that.
- sneak 6y agoThat used to send whatever word (possibly a password, or some other confidential thing) you deep-clicked on out to the lookup server unencrypted. If you happened to be on open wifi (like in a coffeeshop), it would broadcast it totally unencrypted to everyone within radio range. I reported it and now it uses TLS. :)