Lingoes is a dictionary and

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app. Lingoes was created by Chinese. Chinese site is http://lingoes.cn/, English site is http://lingoes.net. Lingoes is often compared to its competitor Babylon because of similarities in their GUI, functionalities and most importantly being

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Features and expandability

Dictionaries and encyclopedias can be installed on Lingoes in the form of new add-ons to extend its functionality. Add-ons for ''

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'' and other cross-English dictionaries (e.g. Arabic, French or German) are available in Lingoes' official website. The program has the ability to pronounce words and install additional

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s available for download also through Lingoes' website. Lingoes also offers a whole-text translation ability using online translation service providers like

Google Translate Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, and an A ...

, Yahoo! Babel Fish Translation, SYSTRAN, Cross-Language, Click2Translate and others. Lingoes offers to translate a text via a mouse-over popup, or by double-clicking the selected text. Additional tools, termed as appendices in the program, include a currency converter, weights and measure units converter and international time zones converter. Additional ones, such as the periodic table of elements, a scientific calculator,

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conversion utility or a

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encoding utility, can be added through the website.

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Features and expandability

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