Collins English Dictionary VS Wiktionary

"The practice of carrying out or watching sexual activities in semi-secluded locations such as parks or car parks" as copy+pasted from the collinsdictionary.com website. Source: 12 months ago

Collinsdictionary.com and reverso.net: Quick ways to translate words and texts from English to Italian and vice versa. Collins has genders, pronunciations and conjugation as well. Source: about 1 year ago

For me, the method depends mainly from the resources I have. For Spanish I'm using spanishdict.com and it has a convienient way to create lists of words, so I just save a new word I see and then after some time I convert that into flashcards. For German I'm using collinsdictionary.com which I use as a normal dictionary, so usually I either create new cards while immersing myself or write them down to a file and... Source: about 1 year ago

The best way to improve your vocabulary is to read more. Read good-quality material (classic novels and quality newspapers, not social media or tabloids). Whenever you encounter a word you don't know, look it up in a dictionary and note what it means in the context of what you are reading. (Don't just Google it as you can't be sure that what you find is true.) If you don't own a dictionary, then... Source: almost 2 years ago

The definition I have found is "a heavy war engine used formerly for hurling stones, etc" (collinsdictionary.com, 5/22). Source: about 2 years ago

When you use the dictionary in English, as I tell to anyone learning English, the best dictionary is not a traditional dictionary, but is wiktionary.org, which itself includes the same definitions as the ones you've linked, but additionally contains "usage notes" that point out how rare and niche the archaic use of "America" to refer to a geographical continent is. It only comes up when you are talking about... Source: 11 months ago

For single words just use a dictionary. wiktionary.org works most of the time and usually is very informative. Source: 11 months ago

Wiktionary.org is very good if you can read Finnish well enough. I don't expect English wiktionary to have a lot of content. Source: 12 months ago

Two good resources to check for accurate pronunciation are wiktionary.org and forvo.com for a variety of voice recordings for words. Source: 12 months ago

For words, it helps a lot to look them up on wiktionary.org or dictionary.com and read the IPA. For example, "complicated" is a word which stresses the 1st syllable, but you've put the stress on the 3rd. Generally, the stress stays on the same part of the word as the root word (COM-pli-cate), and adding -ed or -ing doesn't change it. e.g. MO-ti-vate, MO-tivating, MO-tivated. Source: about 1 year ago