Dictionaries for Mac - instant translation of words by clicking on any application

Many know about the wonderful gesture of touching three fingers or clicking Force Touch on newer Mac, which instantly shows the translation of words with its integrated dictionary. The only problem is that he understands only English. Fortunately, there is a way to fix it.

Resorting to tricks, to the standard "Dictionary" you can add third-party dictionaries, such as Lingvo from ABBYY. But to do this they first need to buy, and they are very cheap. For those who do not want to spend money, but also to become a curve track piracy also does not want to, there is a simple solution - Dictionaries application.

This is a small utility that adds in dictionaries in 44 languages, including Russian and Ukrainian, making them accessible through a standard trehpaltsevy gesture. In addition, you get to check the spelling.

Adding new dictionaries is very simple. Run Dictionaries and select the appropriate language dictionary. Everything. Now, if you move the cursor over the word in any application or browser and touch the trackpad with three fingers, its translation and transcription instantly it appears.

Unfortunately, the right pronunciation of the pop-up window can not, for this word in the system will have to open the "Dictionary" by clicking on the appropriate button. Testing the English-Russian dictionary, I can say that it does have a few pronunciation variants and they are quite good.

Delete dictionaries can be both from the Dictionaries, and of the standard application "Dictionary". But change the order of the dictionaries, if you have several, you can only in the latter by simply dragging them to the desired position in the list.

Learn translation for triple-click is very convenient. This is useful in daily life, and especially in the study of modern languages. Spell check will also be a nice bonus, as in OS X it is not for all languages.

Dictionaries cost $ 6, but has a trial version, which will be enough to decide whether it is worth their money. Time limit on the use of No restrictions apply only to the lack of spell check and dictionary database (they are incomplete).

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