Student writes to CEO Tim Cook to get slang definition taken out. Becca Gorman wrote Apple CEO Tim Cook about an offensive definition of the word "gay" that she found in her MacBook dictionary.

Apple's stock Dictionary app is in the spotlight this week after a Massachusetts teen took issue with a derogatory definition of the word "gay." But not every Mac shows the same definition — and, of ...

Apple Mac computers use the spell check function to check the spelling of words in your documents against the New Oxford American Dictionary. Occasionally, you may find that you use words that are not ...

Apple have expressed their shock after it emerged a definition for “gay” in the Apple dictionary said the word meant “foolish, stupid or unimpressive”. Some versions of Apple’s MacBook dictionary do ...

Apple's Dictionary application is useful for grabbing information about items, either by looking them up in the dictionary or thesaurus, or by using online resources such as Wikipedia. Recently ...

One of the new “features” in Snow Leopard’s Dictionary is that the built-in dictionary will open a new window for each word you define from either the Spotlight menu or the Services menu ...

Longer answer: there’s an application called Dictionary (you can find it in your Applications folder, or search for it with Spotlight) which has detailed entries for thousands of words and phrases.

Apple's new dictionary is quite nice in allowing users to search Wikipedia and Apple, as well as the usual thesaurus; furthermore, in the preferences you can specify a Japanese or Japanese English ...

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