This extension that allows you to quickly look up definitions of words and phrases in a clean inline box. The definitions come from Wiktionary, but have been preprocessed to reduce formatting and provide faster lookup. Hold a modifier key (Alt on Windows, Command on Mac, Ctrl on Linux) and double-click or select any word to look it up – an inline box will open to the dictionary entry of that word, usually including examples, audio pronunciation and synonyms.
You can also lookup manually-entered queries using a shortcut which displays a small query form.
NOTES:
1. After installing, pages already open will not work for looking up – just refresh them and it’ll be solved.
2. The Chrome Extensions Gallery pages don’t allow lookup (or any on-page extensions) for security reasons.
3. This extension does not add a toolbar icon.
Icon:
http://www.iconarchive.com/show/buuf-icons-by-mattahan/Dictionary-icon.html
Created by Paul Davey, used as per the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
If you want to select different dictionaries, try Inline Search & Lookup:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pebegifiepdlicjchldkdlmbohhhpcfi
This is exactly what I wanted — an extension that will show me _multiple_ definitions when I double-click on words on a web page. Works great on my Mac! Thank you for making this, Max!
Great. But why ctrl+q scroll the page to the top? It’s unexpected.
It’s not working. It never did for the past year. I click on a word and nothing shows up.
Fantastic. It uses sentences, synonyms, pronunciations, and great definitions! Get it.
It uses a lot of memory
Have you thought about porting this over to Edge? I have for myself but restarting the browser results in it breaking because it isn’t signed. I think Edge users can benefit from this as there currently is no extension of its kind available
je ne sais pas comment l’utilisser
Best Dictionary of all time.
如果能保存翻译记录就好了..
Does only seem to pull English definitions from Wiktionary. Does not work for other languages. This is counter intuitive because Wiktionary contains a lot of information about a lot of languages.
this is certainly cool but need improvement about voice output
I realized that this extension interferes with the proper loading of some PDF files and causes them not to load at all.
This app interferes with pdf viewer in chrome! Got to fix this bug.
No longer will I have to copy-paste words onto a separate page. Just alt-click and definition appears. Perfect.
Alt + Mouse click, easy, simple. Like it
It’ great, but I wish there was an option so the popup would just instantly go away instead of fade away.
it is the best for chrome
had to refresh the page so it would work!!!!
Era ottimo, ma ora non funziona più, e mostra solo una finestra vuota
Some of the definitions seem to be blatantly anti-Christian. What’s up with that?
Worked, but it lacks warning that it doesn’t work on already opened pages, you should refresh or open new page.
Either it doesn’t do anything, or it suffers from lack of instruction.
Not at all user friendly.
Can’t used it
Very useful !