Using the Dictionary and Thesaurus in Apple Mail
Accessing the built-in Thesaurus in Tiger’s Mail.app is easy, although one person at least didn’t know how to do it.
Place the mouse cursor over the word you would like to see synonyms for. Use the keyboard shortcut “Command+Control+D” (if you are so inclined), or Command Click on the word with your mouse (if you are not) and select “Look up in Dictionary”.
A window pops up looking like this:
At the bottom left you can choose to display the information from either the Dictionary or the Thesaurus.
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September 30th, 2005 at 12:28 am
By the way, this works in apps other than Mail. I believe it’s available in any cocoa application. I use in in Safari from time to time. :)
November 10th, 2005 at 9:59 am
[...] I’ve blogged before about using the Dictionary and Thesaurus in Apple Mail and about Rolling your own Shortcuts. [...]
November 27th, 2008 at 1:16 am
it totally sucks that you can’t switch the language of the correction with one click. i write mails in three languages all the time.