Turn off "definition" output in Spotlight

Is there a way to turn off the output of "definitions" for any term you search for in Spotlight?

I've been using Spotlight as my main app launcher now in lieu of QuickSilver, it is as fast now for doing the job. But for some reason, it sometimes outputs the definition first instead of the app and since I'm used to an almost "instantaneous" appearance of the app for launching I usually press return immediately without even looking at the Spotlight results, so in some instances, I press too soon and it's just annoying. I hardly use Spotlight for searching definitions anyway.

Spotlight system preferences doesn't have a checkbox to turn this off although it has checkboxes for everything else. There must be a way of doing this in the terminal.

Mac Pro 2GHz 3G RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Feb 5, 2008 8:14 AM

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Feb 5, 2008 4:09 PM in response to gglenng

None that I know about. I'd also like to see it revert to Show All instead of what it thinks is a top hit.

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Turn off "definition" output in Spotlight

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