You can look up words in the dictionaries from the word lookup dialog. Enter a Japanese or English word in the Enter Expression text field and click the button. The results will be displayed in the lower area of the dialog window. The part of the entry which matched the expression will be highlighted blue for each result line. Hitting the will delete the current search expression. If you select the arrow to the right of the text field, a popup menu listing previous search expressions will be shown.
You can select the search mode from the Search Options part of the dialog. Exact matches will only return entries where the entered expression is identical to the word, reading or one of the translations of the entry. Starts with Expression and Ends with Expression will find entries where the word, reading or one of the translations have the search expression at the beginning/end. Any Match will return entries where the search expression appears anywhere within the result. Note that the dictionary formats may not support all of the search options. For example, the EDICT implementation does not do "ends with" searches for readings so you might not get all possible matches if you use this search mode.
The Best Match search option will automatically adapt the search mode such that the least number of results are found. If a Best Match search is performed, Exact matches will be tried first and if no results are found, the other search options are tried one after the other until a match is found or all options have been tried.
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checkbox enables the use of the verb/adjective deinflection algorithm for the search expression. The algorithm tries to derive the base form of the search expression by looking at the hiragana ending. This might find entries for inflected word forms, but may also yield confusing results, since the algorithm does only work for some verb forms.You can limit the search to a single dictionary by selecting the
radio button and selecting the dictionary from the popup menu to the right. If the radio button is selected, all dictionaries made available to JGloss in the preferences will be searched.If you use the JGloss word lookup dialog to look up words copied from other programs, you might want to enable the automatically search clipboard content option in the dialog window. If the option is selected, every time the JGloss window is brought to the front, the content of the clipboard is entered in the Search Expression field and searched using the current search settings. This way you can look up words in other programs by simply selecting the word, copying it to the clipboard and bringing the word lookup dialog to the foreground.