I love the "define:" tool on
Google because:
- I am a bad speller
- It's nice to see a few different definitions
But I hate having to type
define:" every time. So I wrote a very simple AppleScript to get around this:
set googleword to display dialog "What word do you want to define?" ¬
default answer " "
set findgoogleword to (text returned of the googleword)
do shell script "open http://www.google.com/search?q=define:" ¬
& findgoogleword
If you don't want to use Google, then all you have to do is change the address and modify the URL bit to match your preferred site's syntax.