Stop Dictionary Pop-Up Window

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< 3.5 GHz, 6-Core Mac Pro (2013 MacPro6,1) with 16GB RAM and D700 GPUs, running macOS 10.14.6 >

Greetings, folks!

After reinstalling MacOS 10.14.6, whenever I type cmd-control-d, a window pops up with dictionary entries.

I have never seen this before (since 1986!) and have been unable to find where the command is controlled so that I can stop the pop-up window from appearing. I need this to stop, as I have used cmd-control-d for decades to generate a time-and-date stamp.

Any advice would be appreciated!

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According to Apple documentation Mac keyboard shortcuts ⌃+⌘+D is built-in document shortcut:

Document shortcuts

The behavior of these shortcuts may vary with the app you're using.

/.../

Control-Command-D: Show or hide the definition of the selected word.

This shortcut is enabled irrespective whether System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > Searching > Look up in Dictionary assigned or not.

Keyboard shortcut for 'Look up in Dictionary' will open Dictionary app and not pop up window, so these are different things.

On my machine I observed 'varying behavior' as stated in documentation: I have not assigned shortcut but this key combination opens dictionary pop-up in Mail and Notes but not in Safari. Probably because MacOS doesn't consider webpage as 'document'.

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Yes, on iPad on iOS5.1.1. At the moment, I am having trouble getting the same functionality on iPhone on iOS6.0.1, though. Japanese dictionary is there, but I can't get the English-Japanese one. Your mileage may vary, of course.

EDIT May 27 2013: To restore Japanese<->English dictionary, you will need to jailbreak the device and delete the Japanese<->Japanese dictionary. These dictionaries conflict, and the Japanese<->Japanese dictionary wins almost every time.

I have also asked if it is possible to only temporarily jailbreak an iOS 6.1.2 iPhone 4 for purposes of removing the mentioned dictionary. As of the time of this edit, this has not been answered; I am nonetheless linking to that question in case someone answers it by the time someone reads this.

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