Fast Longman Dictionary lookup bookmarklet

Longman has recently made available online the almost complete version of their Dictionary of Contemporary English. For anyone who doesn’t know or haven’t got a chance to try out yet, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English is a very comprehensive document; it includes not only English definition of a word, but also packed with several example sentences (which is often the best way to learn how to use a new word). I found this particularly useful for anybody who want to improve their English.

The only convenience remained is you have to go to their homepage every time you look up a word.  Kinda time-consuming isn’t it?

So I wrote a small javascript bookmarklet to make my life easier: just enter a word in the prompt box then press OK and its English definition will show up in a new tab of your browser.

javascript:(function(){var word=prompt("Enter a word to look up","");word = word.trim();if (word!=null && word!=""){var url="http://www.ldoceonline.com/search/?q=";url += word;if ( document.location.href.indexOf("ldoceonline.com")<0){window.open(url,'_newtab');}else{window.location = url;}}})()

Just select all the piece of code above, drag it to your bookmark bar, then change its name to what you like (for example, “Fast Lookup”). And That’s it! 🙂
Click on that bookmark whenever you want to look up a word.

Select all the code

Drag it to your bookmark bar & right click to change name

The Result

Have fun learning!!

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