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Highlights rare English dictionary words and idioms on web pages. Facilitates English language learning and expands your vocabulary.
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Word Discoverer highlights rare English dictionary words, idioms and proverbs on web pages.
It helps non-native English learners to discover new expressions while they are browsing the Internet.
Highlighting of rare words is useful because some people do not even notice vaguely known words, especially when these words are not critical for understanding of the text that they read. One possible explanation of this strange and pertexing effect is that mind of a reader is concentrated on understanding the meaning and structure of the text, and after finishing reading a sentence many readers won't go back to check the meaning of unfamiliar words that they have already forgot. E.g. some readers will forget to check the definition of word "pertexing" from the previous sentence which, in fact, doesn't exist. And even if you did check it, you still can try this extension, it highlights only real English dictionary words and idioms =)
*NOTE* On installation Words Discoverer shows scary warning that it can "read and change all you data on the websites your visit" - don't worry, Words Discoverer will not send any of your data anywhere. In fact it doesn't even talk to any servers, all highlighting logic is performed locally in your browser, so if you have some saved html files to read, you can even use Words Discoverer offline. The source code is here if you are curious: https://github.com/mechatroner/aided_reading
Words Discoverer is free forever, open source, and it has no ads.
Here are some features of the extension:
Words Discoverer is better than "Word-of-the-day" type of programs because new words are highlighted in context of the text that you read, which is a good motivating factor to finally check the definitions and learn these words (or idioms).
Depending on your vocabulary size, you can adjust frequency threshold of highlighted words e.g. skip 25% most common English words, and highlight all the rest. There's no way to set such threshold for idioms and proverbs, the extension can either highlight all of them or none.
Words Discoverer can operate in two modes:
In the first (default) mode it highlight all Internet pages except sites that you add to a special list. E.g. you may not want to highlight anything from youtube.
In the second mode Words Discoverer highlights only sites from another special list - your favorite English sites. By default this list is empty, so unless you add there something (e.g. facebook, wikipedia, bbc.com), it won't highlight anything at all.
Currently there are ~50K words and ~1600 idioms in the extension's dictionary. If you're interested you can look at them on project's github page.
Here some example of idioms from the dictionary: "brand new"(everyone knows this one), "bucket list", "moral high ground", "baby shower"(it is not a shower for babies), "money laundering", "jigsaw puzzle", "veil of ignorance". And there are many others.
If you known definition of a highlighted word, you can add it to your personal vocabulary and it won't be detected any more. When you add a word it is converted to normal form for your vocabulary e.g. "dogs -> dog". You can always view your vocabulary or save it as a text file.
By selecting text of a word (or idiom) and right clicking on it you can either add the word to your vocabulary or view it's definition in one of 4 online dictionaries using context menu references. And, of course, you can also use Words Discoverer in combination with your favorite dictionary app (e.g. "Google dictionary" extension)
Interesting fact: most adult native English speakers know 20000-35000 words, so it is totally possible to eventually add them all to your vocabulary file.
Contributors:
github user XQDD - Text-To-Speech idea and implementation
Latest reviews
- (2023-02-13) ty W: 希望能直接把翻译标在单词后面
- (2022-11-10) nikan movahedi: highly recommended
- (2022-10-29) Bob Loucks: Outstanding; so useful for teaching English in conjunction with translation and dictionary extensions :)
- (2022-08-13) Reff Pixels: Cool Extension but it doesn't work in Vivaldi browser
- (2022-08-02) Mark Sun: 很方便，很好用，加油！ 要是有更多选项就更好了，比如： 1，在读音按钮上，直接显示国际音标; 2，要有“未掌握词汇表”，这样有增有减，长期使用，能得到精确的“个人词汇量表”； 3，增加“阅读模式”。
- (2022-06-22) Musab Dogan: Thank you for this great tool!
- (2022-05-12) whinc wu: nice tool
- (2022-05-08) Yongfei Ma: 请问下， 有没有屏蔽的词汇清单？
- (2022-02-22) Vincent Han: Very useful. Simple to use. It would be better if the dectection of phrases and fixed expression can be improved.
- (2022-01-22) ROCK: 能直接显示词典就完美了，不要再装别的词典了
- (2022-01-13) 禁言禁言者: 不错，但是不常用词库有点奇怪，有许多想要的没有标红，地名等却标红了，不想要那种无用的地名知识啊！
- (2022-01-08) PIN: It can be under the word display Chinese?
- (2021-12-24) Yosan Girma: just what i was looking for. it would be nice if the saved vocabularies include some details like from what site they were added, date of addition...
- (2021-12-02) Pure Quant: 不过，但edge中无法同步到google drive
- (2021-09-13) Sercan: The app is simple and useful. The UI of this plugin can be modernized. But in this way it meets my needs. Thank you so much.
- (2021-09-05) Hogan Feng: nice work
- (2021-08-30) Gary Chu: very good but I can't not sync in Microsoft edge!!!
- (2021-08-23) DK L: Great tool! There is a problem that sync err when using Microsoft Edge. It can not popup login google account window. Hopefully fix this issue. Microsoft Edge Version 92.0.902.55 (Official build) (64-bit) Thanks a lot.
- (2021-08-12) Frederieke: I like the idea of this extension but sometimes it highlights words like ''swimsuit'' and ''sunglasses", which are easy words. I thought this was more for difficult words, which kinda makes me want to uninstall the extension. Is it possible to have different settings for different needs?
- (2021-05-02) Samandeep Singh: I like this extension a lot but as someone that often has to work on separate computers, the lack of a unifying account that saves all your words cross devices is very frustrating. This could easily be solved with allowing us to create an account on a website that the extension can ask us to log into when we sign into a different chrome browser. If this feature is added, it's 5 stars for me.
- (2021-03-30) Andrea Jame: i want to save my word list and words can conect with dictionaries that i want? May you allow user to write in list? and add number with them Can you increase the character limit? (100 current characters)
- (2021-02-28) Hussein Khilfa: Excellent!
- (2021-02-15) 音月醉: 太棒了，好喜欢
- (2021-02-06) Vit Hopeman: Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!
- (2020-12-30) GS Gao: 词汇列表的排序可以按添加时间排序更好，现在按首字母先后顺序排序影响记忆结构。
- (2020-12-25) Happy Just: Doesn't work in Vivaldi browser
- (2020-12-02) fei wang: 建议添加一个快捷键, 相比单纯用鼠标可以大大提高使用效率
- (2020-10-19) Haoran Chen: 感觉很厉害啊，哈哈哈哈
- (2020-10-11) View: edge chromium 无法连接Google drive
- (2020-10-08) Moha med: ارجو ان يكون مفيد
- (2020-09-24) Yongjin Chen: Thank you for writing this fantastic ext.! It help me learn English a lot. I really love it and make a japanese version of it since it's open source. Those who want to learn Japanese can try my Japanese version. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/japanese-highlighter/jkaebofgmgllgmbiinlegcoijdcoiinl
- (2020-09-07) 余李: 无法使用。点击在所有网站上启用和仅在收藏的网站上启用都没反应，会自动取消掉。 Can not use it. Both chosing the button "all website" and "only favorate list" will be cancled.
- (2020-04-12) Kenny: Great!
- (2020-04-11) laleh molaizahedi: its helpful draw your attention into hard words so you learn more thanks . but
- (2020-03-19) Kevin Pillay: I am white.
- (2020-02-13) peter李: 很好用的插件，就是看本地pdf的时候貌似用不了
- (2020-01-02) 金明: 从google翻译到中文的连接有错误，能否修改下 https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=zh-CN&text=myword
- (2019-12-10) 暖色浮余生: 很好，但是发现有的单词没有标注且自己不会，这是怎么回事呢，如果可以自定义标注那个等级的单词就太好了。比如，我想标注6级大纲词汇。
- (2019-12-01) ferdi ayik: ok
- (2019-11-10) Tuan Tran: i really love this extension. it's grate method to remember words by repeatedly. i do appreciate if you you add one more function like this extention woking -------------------- (Highlight This: finds and marks words) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/highlight-this-finds-and/fgmbnmjmbjenlhbefngfibmjkpbcljaj ----------- so when i read goolgle news on the web page, i can easily get a quick looking back the words i've learned and memorize them again by repeatedly (deep learning)
- (2019-10-27) 邓舒: 能否添加一个功能，让用谷歌浏览器打开的PDF文件也可以使用插件
- (2019-10-18) Running Cheese: Thanks for the great extension, but pls update the firefox version, it was 2 years ago since the first upload!
- (2019-09-21) Hui Chan: Goood
- (2019-07-22) Carl Wang: 你好， 导出来的单词本貌似有问题。请问可以修复吗？谢谢。
- (2019-07-21) Sajjad Sedaqat: It's Great
- (2019-06-21) 小麦说Xms: it's the most useful extension i've ever use!!! thank you
- (2019-04-30) Will: 超级喜欢！
- (2019-01-16) 昭明文选: 能再加一个词汇列表吗？ wordlist1 不用颜色标注 这个放已经掌握的单词 wordlist2 用红色标注 这个放正在学习的单词 不在列表中的 用绿色标注 表示不认识的单词 这样一弄，就完美了。
- (2018-12-18) Gokhan Ozaslan: If it's possible to the extension will work on the youtube captions, then would be excellent. Thanks...
- (2018-12-18) gong situ: 超赞 感谢作者,看代码中.