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[...] Healy presents How to Look Up Words in Seconds posted at Ryan M. [...]

By: Marcus Hochstadt

Marcus Hochstadt — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:57:46 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Ryan, will try it out on occasion.

By the way, I’m a regular dictionary.com user myself and have their Firefox plug-in installed.

Did you know by paying a mere $19.95/yr (their Premium membership) that you get rid of all the ads there? And the site loads much faster, too.

Take care!

~Marcus

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:29:56 +0000

I’m not sure if there are any firefox users here, but it used to have dictionary lookup search built into the browser. Now I’ve ‘bookmarked’ my own definition search that will provide the same result. Create a bookmark for the following url:

“http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A%s&aq=f”

I’ve assigned this bookmark the keyword of ‘d’. In the address bar I just type:
d economy

That will return the same result as define:economy at google.

Hope that saves some keystrokes…

By: Wade Balsdon

Wade Balsdon — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:54:28 +0000

Cool Ryan! Thanks for the tip.

By: Kyle Tully

Kyle Tully — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:27:27 +0000

Peter Stone put me onto some cool tools from answers.com, including a “1-Click Answers” app… you alt-click any word in any program and get a pop-up dialog with a whole bunch of info.

There’s also Firefox and IE plugins:

http://www.answers.com/main/product_info.jsp

Very handy.

By: Rebecca Dean

Rebecca Dean — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:55:39 +0000

That’s cool. Wish I could do the same when looking for synonyms. Thesaurus.com can drive me crazy :o).

By: Stephen Dean

Stephen Dean — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:47:27 +0000

Woah, that is nice.