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About WordLookup
WordLookup was a tools app developed by Yu Chen Hou. It was removed from Google Play Dec 27, 2017 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
WordLookup had been downloaded 71 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
WordLookup was rated 3.84 out of 5 stars, based on 1.7 thousand ratings.
App Information
WordLookup was free to download. The APK download size was 323.26 kB. The last available version was 0.2.0beta. The last update was on June 28, 2012.
Technical Requirements
WordLookup required Android 2.1+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Unrated Maturity. The app had been available on Google Play June 2012.
Description
Permissions info: It requires Internet to fetch definitions via the Wordnik API. There's no ads whatsoever.
WordLookup allows you to view word definitions easily as you browse the web, and when using apps. It's like the popular Google Chrome extension Google Dictionary, but for Android! If you have found this useful, please do rate, share & comment!
Simply hold&select the word you wish to look up, share it with WordLookup and a small notification popup will show a few definitions for the word! It's that simple! No need to open another dictionary app! The little popup does not block you from browsing the web, as it is unobstructive and fades away after a short while.
As featured on CNET: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57618586-285/add-a-pop-up-dictionary-to-android/
WordLookup is also open source: https://github.com/icechen1/WordLookup
Here's how to use it: 1- Hold and select the word you'd like to get the definitions. 2- Select the Share button in the menu/Action Bar. 3- Share text to WordLookup. 4- The definitions should show up in a bit as a popup(Toast) notification.
Supported Apps: -ICS Android Browser -Google Chrome -ICS Gmail and Email app -Google Reader -Pulse -Many,many others. More will be added in this list.
Right now, this app is only tested on Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich, as many apps on earlier versions of Android do not support sharing text, your mileage may vary, though. It uses the Wordnik API to get definitions, so a Data/WIFI network connection is required.
The options allows you to customize the notifications, such as the number of definitions shown and display time. Features like using other dictionary sources (offline dictionaries) are coming soon!
Recent changes: 0.2.0 - Text to speech now functional. Also some bug fix and optimization, so app should run faster now. 0.1.5 - Added a loading screen popup + optimizations. 0.1.2 - bugfix release for some crashes 0.1.1 - Improved the look of the popup, the filtering algorithm, and bugfixes. 0.1 - Initial release
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★★★★★
Great I really like this app. Does what it says. It'd get five stars if it would give me the definition of a word that ends in "s" instead of defineing it as "the plural of" said word.
★★★★★
Works great. I really do like this app. Would be nice to double tap on a word to define it though.
★★★★★
Excellent on the fly dictionary! Excellent on the fly dictionary. Two minor suggestions for a 6 out of 5 stars. Rather than flashing the definition entry based on the amount of time selected in the default setup, please place a dismiss button with definition entry that can be pressed when a person is finished reviewing. A similar button should be available to TTS (have the phone read the definition entry). Great app; can't believe this isn't default in Lollipop.
★★★★★
Does what they say it will do. What would make it better personally speaking would be if the long hold would activate a word look up button and if we can have a history of the words we looked up and link to the web page. Please make this happen. Thanks for a good helpful product that helps users like me increase my vocabulary and make sense of things on which i would usually quit coz of laziness.
★★☆☆☆
Not working Not show the pop up window on Sony. Also what is the purpose to going to share option to looking to find the app in long list, when you already selected a word and expect to see the definition.
★★☆☆☆
Doesnt work Great idea. No actually its a frickin obvious idea. Takes too long. Text to speech doesnt work and a definition to say something is a plural of something else is moronic. Since your the only halfwit to come up with this basic function please can you make it work? Id pay you!
★★☆☆☆
Nice App is nice but important thing that you have to tap any word, then choose share, then tap look up. This is not tap to definition dictionary
★★☆☆☆
It is not good, one of the boring aspect is: when you look for the word, it pops up the meaning in a balloon and that balloon fade away before you finish reading. You can't hold the balloon with results, it just do what it wants to, please fix this. Plus it could be better if it was offline.
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