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Originally Posted by elemenoP
... On the downside, it does nothing to the little initial text popup that comes up, you have to click on the dictionary icon to get the full page of dictionary text and see the bigger text ...
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I imagine that the rationale behind leaving it set as a uniform size, is so that the headword, part of speech, first definition number and initial part of the definition, can always be seen. I can read the text in the pop-up, but it is small, so I don't bother. I soon got into the habit of automatically tapping the A-book icon to get full-screen view.
I often want to scroll back to the root word, so I need the full-screen view to be able to use the swipe gesture. For example, if you look up the word
genteelly, you get
genteelly adverb. So, the full-screen view is required to be able to swipe back a page, to see the definition of
genteel.
BTW - I have just discovered that it isn't necessary to tap the A-book icon. Just tap the text anywhere at the bottom of the pop-up. The word look-up feature works just as well with dictionary itself. Double-tap any word in the dictionary, to look up that word up in the dictionary. For example, if you word you are looking up is
deists, where the definition says
Compare with theism, just tap on the word
theism to look it up.
