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hey guys Jason Cipriani here a scene at how to contributor today we're going to discuss how to use the built-in dictionary app on iOS 5 this is a feature that's built into the iOS and some users may not even be aware that its built-in or that it's available you really have to kind of look for it at times and other times it's right in front of you but you may not realize what it is so what we'll do is anywhere you can highlight text or select text you're able to pull up the dictionary app so i have a tweet pulled up here and we're going to go ahead and select the word android and see what the built-in iOS 5 dictionary has to say about android so we have copy delete which we can't delete this text and then we have defined tapping on define will open the dictionary app and give you its definition for the word you have highlighted in this case it's Android and nothing here about Google not a real big surprise Android is a robot with the human appearance it's become so much more than that Apple will go ahead and press stop press on done not only can you highlight and get a definition for static text text you can't edit yourself but you can also get tech or a definition for text that you're entering yourself so I'll just enter a random word and then we'll select it now you don't see defied on this screen or on this pop-up you'll see cut copy paste suggestion if you want to use a different word than technology or you could hit the over arrow and there's define go to tap on that and then there's a whole bunch listed under here for technology so that's it it's pretty simple straightforward it's not there or it's there if you you know what you're looking for and if you don't know what you're looking for it's not there make sure to come over and join us on how to cnet com we have a lot more great tech tips about iOS 5 android anything else you could imagine come and join us you