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Today we present to you a nice project Open source 1, a free application for Android. It is an offline dictionary which we have already talked about in our article on alternatives to Google Translate. Thanks to QuickDec we have an entire dictionary at our disposal with dozens of languages available. Let's see together how it works!
The source of most dictionaries is Wiktionary. We don't know if all of them are taken from here, but most of the ones we checked had this source as their source Wiktionary. Brief explanation for those who don't know the project Wiktionary: is a collaborative project created by Jimmy Wales (co-founder of Wikipedia) and by the community of Wikipedia. It is a set of online, free and multilingual dictionaries with meanings, etymologies and pronunciations.
On QuickDic dozens of offline dictionaries
QuickDec had the brilliant idea of combining multiple dictionaries and thus creating a sort of offline translator. Through the application you can in fact download a single dictionary or multiple dictionaries together and combine them to also have translations. Currently, many translations are available for the Italian language: English, French, Japanese, Greek, Latin, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, German And Hungarian. All strictly offline, once you have downloaded the dictionaries you will no longer need an internet connection!
Another option that we really liked, and not known to everyone, is the one present within the Browsers. If in fact used Firefox, Tor Browsers and also DuckDuckGo Browsers (doesn't seem to work on Chrome), you can check directly from Browsers a word you don't know. In fact, all you have to do is select it and you will also find among the various options QuickDec. If you press it you will immediately end up in the dictionary where you can discover the meaning of that word and possibly its translation.
Unfortunately, this last option only works with single words and not with entire sentences, so it certainly cannot replace Google Translate (for that, look at the our alternatives). However, it can help us a lot if we already know the language and just need more clarification on some words.
• • •Alternatives to QuickDic
One of the alternatives to QuickDic is an online dictionary called InstaLate which has some interesting features. And naturally Open source 2 and is available on F-Droid.
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I immediately went to try it because I had been looking for an offline and easily configurable dictionary for a while.
I'm already satisfied (thank you!) but I was wondering if there was a way to "clean up" the content of the entries, removing or resolving the links to have, for example, "Hyphenation" instead of "{-sill-}"