Tool & Dictionary Bar
Toolbar
Type your word in Search Box and press Enter
to search word in the current selected group. You can also choose a variant from a matches list.
Holding Ctrl or Shift will display the translation result in a new tab.
Wildcard matching
The search line can use wildcard or glob symbols for matching words.
Wildcard | Description |
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? |
Matches any single character. |
* |
Matches zero or more of any characters. |
[abc] |
Matches one character given in the bracket. |
[a-c] |
Matches one character from the range given in the bracket. |
[!abc] |
Matches one character that is not given in the bracket. |
[!a-c] |
Matches one character that is not from the range given in the bracket. |
\ |
Escaping wildcard symbols, e.g. \? to search ? |
Note
The wildcard symbol in the first character leads to scanning of every dictionary's every word and may take a long time.
More information about wildcard matching can be found in Wikipedia's glob article.
Dictionary Bar
The dictionary bar contains all dictionaries from the current dictionaries group. Click the icons to disable/enable them.
"Solo" mode
Temporally focus on a single dictionary and restore back to all dictionaries or previously selected dictionaries.
To enter solo mode:
Ctrl+Left Button -> Select a single dictionary.
To exit solo mode:
Ctrl+Left Button -> Reselect all dictionaries.
Shift+Left Button -> Reselect dictionaries that were previously selected before entering solo mode.
For example, there are 4 dictionaries A,B,C,D with ABC selected.
Cases | Note |
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Ctrl+Click A | select A only |
Ctrl+Click A, Ctrl+Click B | select B only |
Ctrl+Click A, Ctrl+Click A | A,B,C,D selected (all dictionaries selected) |
Ctrl+Click A, Shift+Click any dictionary | A,B,C selected |
Note: This can also be used on the "Found in dictionaries" panel.