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Microsoft recently announced it is switching from a six-week to a four-week update release schedule for the Edge browser. A couple of weeks ago, its Immersive Reader received enhanced Wikipedia support, so it is now much easier to read Wikipedia pages in Reader mode. The built-in dictionary is not the only recent improvement to Microsoft Edge. Be sure to send your feedback regarding this feature to help the company improve it. We can only hope Microsoft is in the early stages of implementing this feature, and it would be soon available in other modes as well.
Edge Legacy offered it not only for PDF but for Reading View and even Books. In Microsoft Edge, this feature works in PDF Reader only, which is a bummer. This means you can define a word from any text on webpages or other apps, not only in PDF Reader. Unlike Edge, on Apple operating systems, dictionaries are part of the operating systems and are available in all apps. As we said before, it was available in Edge Legacy, and it is also well-known to iOS and macOS users. The Define feature is not new to modern browsers. It also contains a descriptive image for the word, something we have already seen in Microsoft Edge with the Picture Dictionary feature. This is a welcomed addition to already available learning features and grammar tools, such as the parts of the speech highlighter or syllables markup.īy clicking on the Search for %word% link, you will open a sidebar search with extra details regarding the selection. Microsoft Edge is using the Bing search to fetch all the needed data. Besides, there is a button to listen to a word, copy it, or search for it on the web. When you click this command, the browser opens a small window with pronunciation, explanations, synonyms, and usage examples. To do this, highlight a word or phrase and select Define from a context menu. The latest Edge Canary builds now offer a built-in dictionary to quickly lookup a word in a PDF. It was available a few builds ago in Canary, but then disappeared. You may remember the Define command in Edge we recently reviewed.