Babylon for Mac is an online translation tool, It translates single words, text, phrases, and expressions. Translation is carried out by placing the cursor over a word, and hitting an activation combination. (either keyboard, or keyboard + mouse).
When a word is clicked, the surrounding text is also being analyzed for context translation and text translation.
For example, Hot Dog, Translating the word Hot will also refer to Dog. You will get a translation for both Hot, and Hot Dog.
This feature is one of many which make Babylon stand out, now available also for Mac. Babylon for Mac is designed to be a light application which will not hog your system resources or disk space, and since Babylon is an online application, the dictionaries are always up to date. 75 Languages 1400 dictionaries and glossaries Wikipedia in 18 different languages 28 supported text translation languages