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Just discovered this feature and got all excited!
Visit this siteyour dictionary follow the instructions to add the button to your link bar, then when you highlight a word on a Web page and click the button you get the meaning pop up in front of your very eyes.

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How does it compare with Atomica?
This works on any word in any application.

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Both excellent, if US biased. One uses the Merriam-Webster Collegiate, the other is Houghton-Mifflin based. I installed both. Atomica is available from the desktop and/or systray, and can be reduced to a minute arrow until needed; My Dictionary adds to the IE Linksbar and is javascript based. Not as visual as Atomica.
If you think they’re very much alike, try ‘tapioca’,’sago’ and ‘semolina’

kTx

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Now all I need is one that works with English English, or is that British English.

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Neither is up to the standard of the Oxford English Dictionary, but since an on-line sub costs uk

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Well, if you don’t *mind* it being based upon the 1913 version – try

ARTFL Webster Search or

Hypertext Webster Gateway at UCSD or

Bibliomania: Free world literature and reference books

The difference between Genius and Stupidity:
A Genius knows their limits.
- Albert Einstein

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Thanks for those. I wonder why they stop at the 1913 edtion? Must be something to do with copyright restrictions.

Rgds

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My curiosity wick must have been turned down low that day.
Thanks.

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