6.4. A Quick Tour of Dictionaries

Once you've got a dictionary open, what exactly do you do with it? Well, most people, when they first open a dictionary, find it a bit confusing. That's a natural reaction, as there's a lot of information in them and you have to know how they are structured or else it's easy to get lost.

In this section, I'm going to take you through a quick tour of the Safari dictionary. It's a fairly common (if not universal) application on the Mac, and it contains some pretty well-understood objects, properties, and actions that you should not have any trouble with.