Looking-up Words in the Net Dictionary

If you have an internet connection you can look-up a word in the VLC Net Dictionary. There are several ways you can do this.

You can use the Options Menu, click the Toolbar Button for this purpose, select from the Clues Window Menu or use the Browser Window itself.

Figure 8: The Options Menu with Look-up selected

Selecting this function brings up first a Look-up Dialog in which you specify the word to look-up.  The function the opens the Browser Window and displays the entries for the specified word in the VLC Net Dictionary. If you use the Clues Window Menu function you must choose the word by clicking the mouse on the word you want from the words displayed in the Clues Window.  The word is shown in YELLOW with a RED background.

Figure 9: The Clues Window with the word to look-up shown in YELLOW / RED

 

After you have selected the word and clicked Lookup in Net Dictionary in the Clues Window, the entries for the word will be displayed in the Browser Window as in Figure 10.

Figure 10: The Browser Window showing the entries for the word in the Net Dictionary

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