More than just an encyclopedia. Using Wikipedia as a dictionary

Hi, Habraludy!

Today I want to show that Wikipedia gives us a little more than just an encyclopedia, and many things (such as spell checkers or translations) can be done without going beyond its limits :-)

For example, Wikipedia can be used as a dictionary.
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It's not a secret for anyone: for this you just need to open the article in Russian Wikipedia, and then in the menu on the left - “In other languages” (interwiki) go to the article in the appropriate language.

For example, we open the article “ Synchrophasotron ” in Wikipedia, and we learn that it is translated into English as “ Particle Accelerator ”, in German - “ Teilchenbeschleuniger ”, and in Ukrainian - “ Priscoryuvch ”.

Of course, those who say that this “LifeHack” has flaws will be right:

• First, some very highly specialized article may not appear on Wikipedia. After all, although the Russian Wikipedia is the largest Russian-language encyclopedia in the world and contains more than 350,000 articles; Some topics, such as classical music, or economics are relatively weak.
  
  
• Also, the article may not appear in the required language, especially if we translate not into English or German, but into a language that is less represented on Wikipedia than Russian — for example, Ukrainian.
  
  
• Secondly, although Wikipedia tells us the etymology and pronunciation of the word, we will not receive such purely dictionary information as declensions, conjugations, etc.

Therefore, in the general case, of course, it is better to use some kind of professional dictionary, such as Lingvo Online or Promt , and if you are a fan of Wikiprojects, then “ Wiktionary .”

But, all the same, this example shows that Wikipedia gives us even a little more than was invested in it initially.