Quick Dictionary

Thanks to the convenience of living in the digital age, learning new concepts and broadening one’s view of the world is faster and easier than ever. One way of saving time and energy when trying to understand complex concepts and ideas is through the use of a neat utility known as Quick Dictionary, meant to automate the process of searching for definitions online.

Once the quick installation process is finished, double-clicking on the automatically generated desktop shortcut greets users to a compact layout in a portrait orientation that takes certain stylistic elements from Google’s Material Design language most commonly found on smartphones running the Android operating system, thus making for a clean, aesthetically pleasing and resizable interface.

When crafting essays, most users may want to diminish the time spent away from the digital canvas to maintain focus on the topic at hand, which is why the app lets you instantly search for a description through a combination of the Alt and F hotkeys that brings its window to the foreground to remove the need of Alt-Tabbing to get to it. Those with multi-monitor setups can leave the program open on a secondary display and let it automatically search for the definitions of words copied to the clipboard, for a more seamless experience that requires fewer steps to carry out.

Moreover, when referencing scanned PDF documents, some pages may not have selectable phrases, which is why the program includes support for applying Optical Character Recognition on a rectangular selection of the screen to scan pictures of text. Since each online dictionary has a particular style of defining words and different sets of example sentences, users have the option of picking between four different sources, alongside Wikipedia, Google Search and Translate for an even broader range of databases to choose from.

Finally, those who wish to study English in an intuitive way can add keywords, their definitions and translations to personalized lists equipped with flash card functionality to speed up the learning process and avoid searching frequently encountered concepts multiple times by revisiting the custom database instead.

Whether you want to understand complex terms scattered throughout an academic paper, or you simply wish to translate certain items on the fly, Quick Dictionary may be the right tool for you, given its handy shortcut support, built-in OCR scanner and multiple databases to choose from, as long as you have an active internet connection at all times.