Translate and lookup words with one click. Shareware ($19.95)
- Accio English Dictionary has been discontinued
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Developer
Ultralingua
The Accio English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a convenient and powerful dictionary, AND a great value. Now you can get definitions and synonyms quickly while you are reading on your computer. Simply point at a word in nearly any application or text window. When you click a hot key, a window pops up with definitions from our extensive language databases. Accio dictionaries include up to 80,000 indexed definitions with the vocabulary you need for everyday usage, including common expressions, and much, much more.
Features include:
Features include:
- Complete databases - Up to 80,000
What's New
Version 1.1: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later
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Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later
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The Accio English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a convenient and powerful dictionary, AND a great value. Now you can get definitions and synonyms quickly while you are reading on your computer. Simply point at a word in nearly any application or text window. When you click a hot key, a window pops up with definitions from our extensive language databases. Accio dictionaries include up to 80,000 indexed definitions with the vocabulary you need for everyday usage, including common expressions, and much, much more.
Features include:
Features include:
- Complete databases - Up to 80,000 definitions.
- Powerful software - Recognize conjugated verbs, and plural, irregular, and inflected forms, in all supported languages.
- Expandable - Add all the languages you need - you can even create your own entries!
- Words at a click! - Just point at any text in nearly any desktop application, click on a hot key, and a small pop-up window appears with the definition.
- History feature - remembers your previous searches.
- Multilingual interface - get the menus, buttons, and instructions in one of several languages.
- Available as a fully functioning trial version for 20 days - so see for yourself!
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- double-click the word (it gets highlighted).
- Press the accio shortcut. (highlight disapears)
- Double-click again the word.
- Press command-C.
The accio window should appear. It works for me at least...