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Kindle 2 User’s Guide 2 nd Edition 44
3.4 Looking Up Definitions
While reading a book or periodical, you can see a brief definition of a word using the Lookup
feature. The Lookup feature uses The New Oxford American Dictionary by default, but you can
also purchase other dictionaries and make them your default dictionary using the Settings page.
See Chapter 7 for details on how to change your default dictionary.
The Lookup Feature
To see the definition of a particular word in your reading content, follow these steps:
1. Move the 5-way controller up or down to display the cursor.
2. Move the 5-way in front of the word you want to look up.
3. If the word is found in the dictionary, a definition extract appears at the bottom of the
screen.
4. To see the complete definition, press the Return key . You will now be placed in the
dictionary and can use Previous Page and Next Page to view other word definitions.
5. Press the Back button to return to your reading.
Tip: If you want to expand your search beyond the dictionary on your device, you can use the
Search feature to look for the word on Wikipedia or the Web. See Chapter 4 for more
information.
3.5 Annotations and Clippings
You can add annotations to all of your books and periodicals. Annotations can include notes you
have written, highlights you've marked, and bookmarks you've created. Annotations are specific
to the content you are reading, so each book or periodical has its own annotations. When you
view the annotations, you see only those for the content you are currently reading.
Kindle also gathers the annotations you've made across all your various books, magazines,
newspapers, blogs, and personal documents and places them in the "My Clippings" file in your
Home screen. See Using Clippings below for more information on My Clippings.
The list below explains the types of annotations:
Bookmarks — mark an entire page for later reference.
Highlights — mark a passage on a page for later reference.
Notes — add your thoughts about a passage.
The sections below explain how to add annotations.