Sideways Dictionary

Tech terms defined with analogies.

Sideways Dictionary: Define tech terms with analogies

Sideways Dictionary is a Chrome extension that helps users define technology terms using analogies. With visual cues and hover functionality, it makes understanding technology easier and enables better communication about tech ideas.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2021-04-19 due to Chrome Web Store policy violation

By: The Washington Post

Users: 1,524+

Rating: 4.60

(5)

Version: 0.0.23 (Last updated: 2017-03-13)

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very high risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
storage
contextMenus
http://*/*
https://*/*

Size: 700.42K

Price: Free

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Extension summary

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Sideways Dictionary — it’s like a dictionary, but using analogies instead of definitions. Use it as a tool for finding and sharing helpful analogies to explain technological ideas. Because if everyone understands technology better, we can make technology work better for everyone.

Features: • Visual cues will indicate when a technology term existing in the Sideways Dictionary has been detected within the text on a web page.

•	Click the extension icon to see an expanded sidebar list of all tech terms detected on the page and their top analogies.

•	Hover a highlighted tech term within the page’s text to see an analogous definition in a small overlay. 

•	Set it to highlight all instances of a found word, or only its first occurrence.

•	Set it to automatically run on every page, or on click of the extension icon in the browser bar.

•	Replace Chrome’s default new tab page with a random Sideways analogy.

To see a full list of technical terms and their analogies, visit SidewaysDictionary.com.

User reviews

A pretty useful and practical extension. It's not in the way of browsing yet can be reached any time so you can get a bit of tech education any time you you need it. Most of the terms included are totally okay yet I'm not sure others should be in the database (e.g. http or app are quite common terms don't really need to be explained. It would be quite a good feature if terms could mark as 'not to show any more' or something like this. 😊 Otherwise, I hope that new terms will be added to the extension continuously so users can get even more and more useful info this way. ✌️ Or it could be also interesting to develop more extensions like this but for marketing, medical, business, economics, etc. topics.

Zsuzsanna Vári, 2020-08-30

要是支持中文就更好了，哈哈哈

郝磊, 2017-03-16

Interesting idea, but I thought this was going to be for legitimate technical terms, not things like "app" and "browser". Also, "http" shows up on pretty much every page.