Free Dicto Dictionary
I, as a person who does not know English well, often need the help of dictionaries, so I always tried to have a dictionary installed. Most recently it was Lingvo , but there were reasons why I wanted to change it, namely:
The dictionary asked for money, of course it was possible to disaccustom it from this, but I wanted something legitimate. A rather slow cold start, and I didn’t like the memory consumption in standby mode. Therefore, although I was not active, I was looking for a replacement. Until I stumbled upon Dicto .
Description from the project site:
• Dicto has a unicode engine that helps to support a huge number of dictionaries in various languages
• the ability to translate in the popup hotkey
• customizable program interface (more than 40 skins, the ability to use transparency) *
• high speed dictionary loading
• ability to customize hot keys for translation
• multi-translation capability
• convenient and fast dictionary navigation
To translate a word, select it and press one of the key combinations: “Ctrl + Ins + Ins” , “Ctrl + C + C” , “Ctrl x 2” . Depending on the settings, the translation will either appear in a small frame near the cursor, or the main dictionary window will appear.
Even a cold start happens almost instantly.
In a minimized state, it eats less than a megabyte of memory.
If you select multiple words, then a tab for each will open in the dictionary.
Now there are dictionaries for the English-Russian and German-Russian translation, the explanatory dictionary of Dahl and TSB . Dictionaries are downloaded separately, what you need, then swing.
The project is still very young, the second version is now available for download, number 2.0.0.8 , but, apparently, people involved in Dicto are actively working on it, since the first version was only a couple of months ago, so we are waiting for updates.
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Official site
With a small offtopic I’ll add that as an alternative, you can still try the QDictionary dictionary or add two Googlebot bots to the jabber client - en2ru@bot.talk.google.com and ru2en@bot.talk.google.com , of course there are others, but read about it here . True, this is if you rarely need a dictionary ... :)
The dictionary asked for money, of course it was possible to disaccustom it from this, but I wanted something legitimate. A rather slow cold start, and I didn’t like the memory consumption in standby mode. Therefore, although I was not active, I was looking for a replacement. Until I stumbled upon Dicto .
Description from the project site:
• Dicto has a unicode engine that helps to support a huge number of dictionaries in various languages
• the ability to translate in the popup hotkey
• customizable program interface (more than 40 skins, the ability to use transparency) *
• high speed dictionary loading
• ability to customize hot keys for translation
• multi-translation capability
• convenient and fast dictionary navigation
To translate a word, select it and press one of the key combinations: “Ctrl + Ins + Ins” , “Ctrl + C + C” , “Ctrl x 2” . Depending on the settings, the translation will either appear in a small frame near the cursor, or the main dictionary window will appear.
Even a cold start happens almost instantly.
In a minimized state, it eats less than a megabyte of memory.
If you select multiple words, then a tab for each will open in the dictionary.
Now there are dictionaries for the English-Russian and German-Russian translation, the explanatory dictionary of Dahl and TSB . Dictionaries are downloaded separately, what you need, then swing.
The project is still very young, the second version is now available for download, number 2.0.0.8 , but, apparently, people involved in Dicto are actively working on it, since the first version was only a couple of months ago, so we are waiting for updates.
')
Official site
With a small offtopic I’ll add that as an alternative, you can still try the QDictionary dictionary or add two Googlebot bots to the jabber client - en2ru@bot.talk.google.com and ru2en@bot.talk.google.com , of course there are others, but read about it here . True, this is if you rarely need a dictionary ... :)
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/19587/
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