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143 lines
6.7 KiB
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{
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"Gissing":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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"George Robert 1857\u20131903 English novelist":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gi-si\u014b"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234031",
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"type":[
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"biographical name"
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]
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},
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"gismo":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": gadget":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He broke the gizmo he uses to open and close his garage door.",
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"found all sorts of interesting woodworking gizmos in the garage",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"This tiny little gizmo plugs into a USB-A port on a desktop or laptop computer and provides superb audio quality and multi-point connectivity for use with a softphone or any video meeting software like Zoom, Teams or Skype. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
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"Caprice is a former trauma surgeon; her operating theater is now an actual theater, her scalpels controlled by a weird gizmo that looks like some kind of melted video-game controller. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 1 June 2022",
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"Like any new tech gizmo , this program is a fledgling product with pros and cons and the potential to be much better. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
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"Several of Royal\u2019s newest ships have sailed with the guest-pleasing gizmo , including four Oasis-class ships and five Quantum-class ships. \u2014 Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel , 12 May 2022",
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"All heads are bent toward the phone, that tiny gizmo that can tell us the temperature in Mobile or Mumbai or Montgomery in two seconds and show us how to get there, too. \u2014 Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al , 6 Apr. 2022",
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"The best gizmo in the Batman\u2019s bag of high-tech tricks is a pair of contact lenses that are also video cameras beaming their signal to the devices of his choice. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 9 Mar. 2022",
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"The fanciest fire-lighting gizmo on the market probably isn\u2019t as good as a simple lighter, Gookin says. \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 30 July 2014",
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"But many contenders go one step beyond and present something unique and special \u2014 an object or gizmo that without it the whole film could flop over. \u2014 Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times , 27 Jan. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1942, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"origin unknown":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8giz-(\u02cc)m\u014d"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"appliance",
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"contraption",
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"contrivance",
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"gadget",
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"gimmick",
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"jigger",
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"widget"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222738",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"gismondite":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a mineral CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 .4H 2 O consisting of a light-colored hydrous calcium aluminum silicate occurring in pyramidal crystals":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"gismondite from gismond ine + -ite; gismondine from German gismondin , from C. G. Gismondi \u20201824 Italian mineralogist + German -in -ine":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8jizm\u0259n-",
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"jiz\u02c8m\u00e4n\u02ccd\u012bt"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234434",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"gist":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the ground (see ground entry 1 sense 4a ) of a legal action":[],
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": the main point or part : essence":[
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"the gist of an argument"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Thus, Poulterers' Case gave rise to a doctrine which survives to this day: the gist of conspiracy is the agreement, and so the agreement is punishable even if its purpose was not achieved. \u2014 Wayne R. LaFave & Austin W. Scott, Jr. , Criminal Law , (1972) 1986",
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"\u2026 Einstein showed how time intervals depend on the motion of people and clocks doing the measuring. And that's the gist of relativity. \u2014 Alan Lightman , Science , January/February 1984",
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"Dorothea told him that she had seen Lydgate, and recited the gist of her conversation with him about the Hospital. \u2014 George Eliot , Middlemarch , 1872",
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"didn't catch every word between them, but heard enough to get the gist of the conversation",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"That was the gist of the messages conveyed to Anthony Twiggs, who inherited the leather cap more than 20 years ago when his mother died. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 13 Feb. 2022",
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"That was the gist of the messages conveyed to Anthony Twiggs, who inherited the leather cap more than 20 years ago when his mother died. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Feb. 2022",
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"That's the gist of the feelings of Justo Antonio Triana, a current Syracuse University student in New York and a recent immigrant from communist Cuba. \u2014 Maureen Mackey, Fox News , 22 Jan. 2022",
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"Here, the court goes through an extended discussion to make its point, but what was just described is the important gist of its ruling. \u2014 Jay Adkisson, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
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"But the gist of his comments were that gains are still there to be made with the Heat. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 7 June 2022",
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"Ahead of their visit, users are asked to download the Batman x Spyscape app to get the gist of the story. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 3 June 2022",
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"Missing that 8% still allowed scientists to get the gist of the story of human genetics, said Jonas Korlach, chief scientific officer of Pacific Biosciences, the company whose technology was used to fill the gaps. \u2014 Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY , 31 Mar. 2022",
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"Truth is, of course, an absolute defense to any defamation claim, and a statement need not be completely true so long as the gist of the statement is true. \u2014 Jay Adkisson, Forbes , 27 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1632, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Anglo-French, it lies, from gisir to lie, ultimately from Latin jac\u0113re \u2014 more at adjacent":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8jist"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bottom line",
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"bull's-eye",
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"centerpiece",
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"core",
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"crux",
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"essence",
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"heart",
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"kernel",
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"keynote",
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"meat",
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"meat and potatoes",
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"net",
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"nub",
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"nubbin",
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"nucleus",
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"pith",
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"pivot",
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"point",
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"root",
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"sum"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171037",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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}
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} |