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4095 lines
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{
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"Animalivora":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":[
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"Definition of Animalivora taxonomic synonym of microchiroptera"
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],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
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"history_and_etymology":"New Latin, from Latin animal + New Latin -i- + -vora ",
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccan\u0259m\u0259\u02c8liv(\u0259)r\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-052553",
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"type":[]
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},
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"animal":{
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"antonyms":[
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"bodily",
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"carnal",
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"corporal",
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"corporeal",
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"fleshly",
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"material",
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"physical",
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"somatic"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a person with a particular interest or aptitude":[
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"a political animal",
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"He's a party animal ."
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],
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": any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (such as protozoans ) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis , in requiring more complex food materials (such as proteins ), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation":[],
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": of or relating to the animal pole of an egg or to the part from which ectoderm normally develops":[],
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": of or relating to the physical or sentient as contrasted with the intellectual or rational":[],
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": of, relating to, resembling, or derived from animals":[
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"animal instincts",
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"animal behavior"
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],
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": one of the lower animals (see lower entry 3 sense 3 ) as distinguished from human beings":[],
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": sensual , fleshly":[
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"indulged his animal appetites"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"the animals in the zoo",
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"the plants and animals of the forest",
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"She loves all kinds of animals .",
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"Fish, birds, insects, reptiles, mammals, and human beings are all animals .",
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"You're all behaving like a bunch of animals .",
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"Adjective",
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"several different plant and animal species",
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"milk, meat, and other animal products",
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"People were shocked by the animal brutality of the attack.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Ba subverts heteronormative constructs of beauty, femininity, and sexuality, depicted her human and animal subjects is sometimes surreal settings that challenge traditional notions of nature. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
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"Plant and animal species that live in and along the river have adapted to the ecological conditions of this flood pulse and thrive because of it. \u2014 Jim Robbins, Wired , 25 June 2022",
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"That this animal , nicknamed Fred, might have had his own biography is betrayed only by the ominous hole on the underside of his skull. \u2014 Peter Brannen, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022",
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"Beach samples are analyzed for three fecal-indicator bacteria that show pollution from numerous sources, including human and animal waste. \u2014 Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
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"Djinn can also take on human or animal form and can possess inanimate objects. \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 22 June 2022",
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"The larger of the current outbreaks began in early May, apparently triggered by a U.K. traveler\u2019s exposure to an infected person or animal in Nigeria. \u2014 David Axe, Rolling Stone , 12 June 2022",
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"In Gaydos\u2019s soft and honest delivery, the struggles and joys of life \u2014 plant, human, animal \u2014 come across as neither graphic nor gratuitous, but simply real. \u2014 Sebastian Modak, New York Times , 11 June 2022",
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"Paleoclimatologists can learn about past climates by looking at tree rings, ice cores, and mineral and element compositions in sediment core samples as well analyzing plant and animal remains. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"Eggs made from peas, burgers made from kelp, milk made with non- animal whey protein. \u2014 Larissa Zimberoff, Bon App\u00e9tit , 16 June 2022",
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"Sponsor company volunteering opportunities to a homeless or animal shelter and notify local press and post on social media. \u2014 Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone , 19 Apr. 2022",
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"The efforts, though experimental right now, could also appease those who want non- animal sources of the colorants in their foods, these scientists say. \u2014 Brittany J. Miller, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Mar. 2022",
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"True to its hippie roots, it will be aimed at tree-huggers with an interior full of sustainable materials like non- animal leather and organic paint. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 19 Mar. 2022",
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"And that poses a threat to human and animal health around the world. \u2014 Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022",
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"Her reason to stop breeding corgis could also be due to the fact that none of the Queen's children took to corgis the way their mother did, though the Windsors are famously animal \u2014and even dog!\u2014lovers. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 23 Apr. 2022",
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"Stella, who uses sustainable materials [and] non- animal materials. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
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"In part because of that growing demand, Angama added a mobile four-bedroom safari camp in 2020 that follows animal migration patterns. \u2014 Jacqueline Gifford, Travel + Leisure , 27 Mar. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin, from animale , neuter of animalis animate, from anima soul \u2014 more at animate":"Noun and Adjective"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259l",
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"\u02c8an-\u0259-m\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animal Adjective carnal , fleshly , sensual , animal mean having a relation to the body. carnal may mean only this but more often connotes derogatorily an action or manifestation of a person's lower nature. gave in to carnal desires fleshly is less derogatory than carnal . a saint who had experienced fleshly temptations sensual may apply to any gratification of a bodily desire or pleasure but commonly implies sexual appetite with absence of the spiritual or intellectual. fleshpots providing sensual delights animal stresses the physical as distinguished from the rational nature of a person. led a mindless animal existence",
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"synonyms":[
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"beast",
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"beastie",
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"brute",
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"creature",
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"critter"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230528",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animal hypnosis":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": cataplexy":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1899, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115321",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animal magnetism":{
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"antonyms":[
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"repulsion",
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"repulsiveness"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a mysterious force claimed by Mesmer to enable him to hypnotize patients":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"a photograph that captures the athlete's animal magnetism",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Based on the widely popular theory of animal magnetism proposed by Franz Mesmer at the end of the 18th century, Allix claimed that snails are particularly well suited to communicate by a magnetism-like force through the ambient medium. \u2014 Justin E. H. Smith, Wired , 3 Mar. 2022",
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"In the eighteenth century, Franz Mesmer introduced his concept of mesmerism, or animal magnetism , involving a universal vital fluid that passes in and out through our pores. \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 1 Nov. 2021",
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"Your animal magnetism could be a big turn-on for a special someone this evening. \u2014 Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive , 15 May 2021",
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"The student need not believe that Noah existed, or that his animal magnetism was as great as is said, or how long-lived his children were. \u2014 Luther Ray Abel, National Review , 17 Sep. 2020",
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"The charismatic Sun moves into your sign today, enhancing your animal magnetism . \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 22 Aug. 2020",
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"Health could be restored through contact with a conductor of animal magnetism . \u2014 National Geographic , 5 Mar. 2019",
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"Penelope Cruz makes a sensational film debut, and Javier Bardem bursts with animal magnetism . \u2014 Chris Ball, cleveland.com , 4 Feb. 2018",
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"Franklin used an early version of the placebo trial to prove that animal magnetism wasn\u2019t a real biological force. \u2014 Gregory Reid, Smithsonian , 29 May 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1781, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"allure",
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"appeal",
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"attractiveness",
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"captivation",
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"charisma",
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"charm",
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"duende",
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"enchantment",
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"fascination",
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"force field",
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"glamour",
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"glamor",
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"magic",
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"magnetism",
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"oomph",
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"pizzazz",
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"pizazz",
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"seductiveness",
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"witchery"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013307",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animal pole":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the point on the surface of an egg that is diametrically opposite to the vegetal pole and usually marks the most active part of the protoplasm or the part containing least yolk \u2014 see blastula illustration":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1876, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114934",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animalia":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": that one of the basic groups of living things that comprises either all the animals or all the multicellular animals \u2014 compare animal kingdom , plantae , protista":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1902, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Latin, plural of animal":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8m\u0101ly\u0259",
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"-l\u0113\u0259"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012753",
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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]
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},
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"animalic":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": of or relating to animals or animalism":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u00a6an\u0259\u00a6malik"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1677, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-094518"
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},
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"animalier":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a sculptor or painter of animal subjects":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1875, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French, from animal animal, from Latin":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8lir"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094048",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animalism":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": animality":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"without law and order, society would quickly devolve into a state of animalism",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The Seven Commandments (Revised) of Orwellian Animalism : This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links. \u2014 John Brownlee, WIRED , 15 Jan. 2007"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1814, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"animality",
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"beastliness",
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"bestiality",
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"brutality",
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"brutishness",
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"swinishness"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103017",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animalist":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a painter, sculptor, or writer that deals with animal subjects \u2014 compare animalier":[],
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": one that accepts the theory of animalism":[],
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": one that follows animalism (see animalism sense 1b ) as a mode of living : sensualist":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1813, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u0259\u0307st"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235457",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animalistic":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": animality":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"without law and order, society would quickly devolve into a state of animalism",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The Seven Commandments (Revised) of Orwellian Animalism : This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links. \u2014 John Brownlee, WIRED , 15 Jan. 2007"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1814, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"animality",
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"beastliness",
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"bestiality",
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"brutality",
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"brutishness",
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"swinishness"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033834",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animalitarianism":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the view that animals are more natural, happier, and admirable than human beings":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1936, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"animal entry 1 + -itarianism (as in humanitarianism )":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccan\u0259\u02ccmal\u0259\u02c8ter\u0113\u0259\u02ccniz\u0259m"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110508",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animality":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a natural unrestrained unreasoned response to physical drives or stimuli":[],
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": a quality or nature associated with animals :":[],
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": the animal nature of human beings":[],
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": vitality":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"in his portrayal the actor emphasizes the working-class hunk's fundamental animality",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"It\u2019s the thought of not being able to keep alive her two pets, whose fragile animality animates the stakes from the outset. \u2014 Naveen Kumar, Variety , 11 Oct. 2021",
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"Linking women with animality and monstrosity is common in pop culture, and there are a number of female werewolf precedents. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 July 2021",
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"The latter fragrance, in a smooth-contoured bottle, was a blend of pure musk and animality , primal as the fossilized DNA of our species preserved in amber. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2021",
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"Orientals were once celebrated for harnessing a kind of raw, sensuous animality . \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2021",
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"And Hrabal knows better than anyone that our animality is what makes us human. \u2014 Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker , 19 Nov. 2019"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1615, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8ma-l\u0259-t\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"animalism",
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"beastliness",
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"bestiality",
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"brutality",
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"brutishness",
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"swinishness"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015712",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animalivore":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": microchiropteran":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1957, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin Animalivora":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8mal\u0259\u02ccv\u014d(\u0259)r"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000826",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"animalize":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to cause to be or act like an animal":[],
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": to represent in animal form":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"six months of solitary living in the jungle would animalize anyone",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Sociologist Anthony Cortese found that in popular culture black women are often othered, animalized and exoticized, associating women of color with primitivity or wild sexuality. \u2014 Katie Edwards, Washington Post , 14 July 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1741, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bestialize",
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"brutalize",
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"dehumanize"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052036",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"animate":{
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"antonyms":[
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"amp (up)",
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"brace",
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"energize",
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"enliven",
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"fillip",
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"fire",
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"ginger (up)",
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"invigorate",
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"jazz (up)",
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"juice up",
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"jump-start",
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"liven (up)",
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"pep (up)",
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"quicken",
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"spike",
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"stimulate",
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"vitalize",
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"vivify",
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"zip (up)"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": full of life : animated":[],
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": of or relating to animal life as opposed to plant life":[],
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": possessing or characterized by life : alive":[],
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": referring to a living thing":[
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"an animate noun"
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],
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": to give life to":[],
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": to give spirit and support to : encourage":[],
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": to give vigor and zest to":[],
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": to make or design in such a way as to create apparently spontaneous lifelike movement":[
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"animate a cartoon"
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],
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": to move to action":[
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"a criminal animated by greed"
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],
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": to produce in the form of an animated cartoon":[
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"animate a story"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"The lecture was about ancient worship of animate and inanimate objects.",
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"an animate dance routine that will really get the blood pumping",
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"Verb",
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"The writer's humor animates the novel.",
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"The film's very realistic dinosaurs were animated on computers.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"As such, they should be treated as \u2018 animate tools,\u2019 instruments rather than ends. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
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"Science is a process, not an animate object that speaks. \u2014 Michael Lynch, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
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"Creativity, making, and imagining animate Black self-determination with that which only culture can provide. \u2014 ELLE , 31 Mar. 2022",
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"Drawing animate objects was forbidden, as on the day of judgment, God would ask me to put life in them. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 28 Mar. 2022",
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"At one point, Atung abruptly drops out of the show, eliminating its only source of interpersonal intrigue and allowing Afong to complete her transformation into an animate textbook. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
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"This time the town is not empty but crowded with animate memories. \u2014 Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books , 19 Nov. 2020",
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"Ethics begins by recognizing that entities of this Earth are both material and animate . \u2014 Kathleen Dean Moore, The Conversation , 20 Oct. 2021",
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"This time the town is not empty but crowded with animate memories. \u2014 Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books , 19 Nov. 2020",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"An Intricate shutter design, a cozy pile of purple floral pillows, and a golden damask-print coverlet animate this bedroom designed by Kristin Hein and Philip Cozi. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 23 June 2022",
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"With Trump exiting the White House, Fox needed a dominating personality to animate its news and talk shows. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
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"The company recently abandoned its use of facial recognition on its Facebook app, but metaverse gadgetry relies on new forms of tracking people\u2019s gaits, body movements and expressions to animate their avatars with real-world emotions. \u2014 Matt O'brien And Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Nov. 2021",
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"Moments like that one animate what have, for this viewer, become tiresome back-and-forth games of inside baseball, lending them verve and life. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 2 June 2022",
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"His crisp, correct likenesses, electric palette, and attention to textiles and jewelry animate the Tudors and their circle. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 24 Mar. 2022",
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"Some NFTs feature popular artists like Pusha T. Johnson also bolstered his skill set by learning to animate with Adobe After Effects. \u2014 Amiah Taylor, Fortune , 12 Feb. 2022",
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"The company recently abandoned its use of facial recognition on its Facebook app, but metaverse gadgetry relies on new forms of tracking people\u2019s gaits, body movements and expressions to animate their avatars with real-world emotions. \u2014 Matt O'brien And Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Nov. 2021",
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"The company recently abandoned its use of facial recognition on its Facebook app, but metaverse gadgetry relies on new forms of tracking people\u2019s gaits, body movements and expressions to animate their avatars with real-world emotions. \u2014 Barbara Ortutay, chicagotribune.com , 7 Nov. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English, from Latin animatus , past participle of animare to give life to, from anima breath, soul; akin to Old English \u014dthian to breathe, Latin animus spirit, Greek anemos wind, Sanskrit aniti he breathes":"Adjective and Verb"
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8an-\u0259-m\u0259t",
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259t",
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101t"
|
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animate Verb quicken , animate , enliven , vivify mean to make alive or lively. quicken stresses a sudden renewal of life or activity especially in something inert. the arrival of spring quickens the earth animate emphasizes the imparting of motion or vitality to what is or might be mechanical or artificial. happiness animated his conversation enliven suggests a stimulus that arouses from dullness or torpidity. enlivened her lectures with humorous anecdotes vivify implies a freshening or energizing through renewal of vitality. new blood needed to vivify the dying club",
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"synonyms":[
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"active",
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"airy",
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"animated",
|
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"bouncing",
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"brisk",
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"energetic",
|
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"frisky",
|
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"gay",
|
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"jaunty",
|
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"jazzy",
|
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"kinetic",
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"lively",
|
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"mettlesome",
|
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"peppy",
|
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"perky",
|
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"pert",
|
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"pizzazzy",
|
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"pizazzy",
|
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"racy",
|
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"snappy",
|
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"spanking",
|
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"sparky",
|
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"spirited",
|
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"sprightly",
|
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"springy",
|
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"vital",
|
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"vivacious",
|
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"zippy"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205353",
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb",
|
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"noun",
|
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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},
|
|
"animated":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"dead",
|
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"inactive",
|
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"inanimate",
|
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"lackadaisical",
|
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"languid",
|
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"languishing",
|
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"languorous",
|
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"leaden",
|
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"lifeless",
|
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"limp",
|
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"listless",
|
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"spiritless",
|
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"vapid"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive":[
|
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"animated creatures"
|
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],
|
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": full of movement and activity":[
|
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"an animated crowd"
|
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],
|
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": full of vigor and spirit : lively":[
|
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"an animated discussion"
|
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],
|
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": having the appearance of something alive":[
|
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"an unusually animated piece of sculpture"
|
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],
|
|
": made in the form of an animated cartoon":[
|
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"an animated film"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"She gave an animated description of the project.",
|
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"After dinner, the discussion got more animated .",
|
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"Many movies for kids are animated rather than live-action.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"There are nine Spider-Man movies, eight of which are live-action and one an animated film. \u2014 Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
|
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"In total, the trilogy of animated features have grossed over $1.8 billion at the global box office. \u2014 J. Kim Murphy, Variety , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"The Brad Bird film also notched the biggest ever opening for an animated film, debuting to $182 million in 2018. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"Non- animated features include Stand and Deliver, Once Upon a Time in America, Out to Sea, and Odd Couple 2. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 3 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Which brings us to perhaps the most insulting diss the academy delivered this week: short-subject narratives, animated features and documentaries. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The presence of female directors was higher for documentary films, where women accounted for 29 percent of helmers, compared to a mere 19 percent for live-action fiction films and 16 percent for animated features. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Jan. 2022",
|
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"This is one of the all-time great animated features, period. \u2014 Josh Spiegel, Vulture , 11 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Both Perifel and Desmarchelier are French, the animated action comedy Perifel\u2019s first feature, which has garnered not only robust B.O. but critical acclaim. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 14 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"see animate entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02ccm\u0101t-\u0259d",
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101-t\u0259d"
|
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],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animated lively , animated , vivacious , sprightly , gay mean keenly alive and spirited. lively suggests briskness, alertness, or energy. a lively debate on the issues animated applies to what is spirited and active. an animated discussion of current events vivacious suggests an activeness of gesture and wit, often playful or alluring. a vivacious party host sprightly suggests lightness and spirited vigor of manner or wit. a tuneful, sprightly musical gay stresses complete freedom from care and overflowing spirits. the gay spirit of Paris in the 1920s",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"active",
|
|
"airy",
|
|
"animate",
|
|
"bouncing",
|
|
"brisk",
|
|
"energetic",
|
|
"frisky",
|
|
"gay",
|
|
"jaunty",
|
|
"jazzy",
|
|
"kinetic",
|
|
"lively",
|
|
"mettlesome",
|
|
"peppy",
|
|
"perky",
|
|
"pert",
|
|
"pizzazzy",
|
|
"pizazzy",
|
|
"racy",
|
|
"snappy",
|
|
"spanking",
|
|
"sparky",
|
|
"spirited",
|
|
"sprightly",
|
|
"springy",
|
|
"vital",
|
|
"vivacious",
|
|
"zippy"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044017",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"animation":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"inactivity",
|
|
"lifelessness"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": animated cartoon":[],
|
|
": the act of animating : the state of being animate or animated":[],
|
|
": the preparation of animated cartoons":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The animation for the film took over two years to complete.",
|
|
"The studio used computer animation for some of the special effects.",
|
|
"The website has hundreds of animations you can download.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Matou\u0161 Valch\u00e1\u0159 graduated from the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen with a bachelor\u2019s degree in animation and interactive production. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 25 June 2022",
|
|
"Upcoming Paramount Animation titles include a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature, a Paw Patrol sequel, an untitled Transformers animation and a Smurfs musical. \u2014 Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"All of this was backed up by some truly lovely animation and excellent acting, with the voice cast being nothing short of superb. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
|
|
"Featuring documentaries, animation and live-action short films. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 6 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"First of all, the show switches between animation and live-action, which takes some getting used to. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 4 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Horrors abound in this dark and twisted 2022 tale from stop-motion animation wizard Phil Tippett. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 12 June 2022",
|
|
"Horrors abound in this dark and twisted 2022 tale from stop-motion animation wizard Phil Tippett. \u2014 Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"For anyone who loves stop-motion animation , the first 40 minutes of this bleak adventure will scratch your trippy itch and then some. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 10 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccan-\u0259-\u02c8m\u0101-sh\u0259n",
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8m\u0101-sh\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"briskness",
|
|
"exuberance",
|
|
"jazziness",
|
|
"liveliness",
|
|
"lustiness",
|
|
"peppiness",
|
|
"robustness",
|
|
"sprightliness",
|
|
"vibrance",
|
|
"vibrancy",
|
|
"vigorousness",
|
|
"vitality"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100526",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"animosity":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"amity"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Few rivalries can match that of the Cards and Cubs in terms of history, color and animosity . Things are tense in an off year, but in 2003 the teams are at the top of the National League Central division (along with the Houston Astros), separated by a half-game. \u2014 John Grisham , New York Times Book Review , 1 May 2005",
|
|
"As I get older, I have noticed the troubles many of my friends have with their fathers: the animosities and disappointments, held so long in the arrears of late adolescence, suddenly coming up due on both ends. But my father and I, if anything, have gotten closer, even as I understand him less and less. \u2014 Tom Bissell , Harper's , December 2004",
|
|
"What I did not anticipate, however, was the depth of animosity that had been simmering among the teachers beneath the pleasantries that characterized our public, formal encounters. I discovered that my enthusiastic advocacy for whole language was received by traditional teachers as demeaning, insulting attacks. \u2014 Elaine Garan , Language Arts , September 1998",
|
|
"We put aside our personal animosities so that we could work together.",
|
|
"his open animosity towards us made our meeting very uncomfortable",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Yet another point of contention was the fact that many residents harbor deep animosity toward Central Maine Power and Avangrid. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
|
|
"Heard has faced a wave of vitriol for years online, but the animosity toward her has recently reached a new high, especially during Depp\u2019s appearance on the stand last month for more than seven hours of testimony. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"Despite Trump's animosity toward his former VP, the former president endorsed Greg Pence on Friday. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 3 May 2022",
|
|
"Have fans moved on, or is there still animosity toward big clubs",
|
|
"That is, this was not just a generalized hatred or animosity toward any type of government. \u2014 CBS News , 29 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"One problem, experts say, is that the ETS was overtaken by vaccine availability, evolving Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, and animosity toward federal mandates. \u2014 Julia Zorthian, Time , 27 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Oliver\u2019s animosity toward Mabel indicates he has been deceived before \u2014 and in an impactful way. \u2014 Carrie Wittmer, Vulture , 15 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Park\u2019s distaste for his colleague\u2019s use of brutal torture in his interrogation methods only feeds the initially unspoken animosity between them. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1568, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English animosite , from Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French animosit\u00e9 , from Late Latin animositat-, animositas , from Latin animosus spirited, from animus \u2014 see animus":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8m\u00e4-s\u0259-t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animosity enmity , hostility , antipathy , antagonism , animosity , rancor , animus mean deep-seated dislike or ill will. enmity suggests positive hatred which may be open or concealed. an unspoken enmity hostility suggests an enmity showing itself in attacks or aggression. hostility between the two nations antipathy and antagonism imply a natural or logical basis for one's hatred or dislike, antipathy suggesting repugnance, a desire to avoid or reject, and antagonism suggesting a clash of temperaments leading readily to hostility. a natural antipathy for self-seekers antagonism between the brothers animosity suggests intense ill will and vindictiveness that threaten to kindle hostility. animosity that led to revenge rancor is especially applied to bitter brooding over a wrong. rancor filled every line of his letters animus adds to animosity the implication of strong prejudice. objections devoid of personal animus",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"animus",
|
|
"antagonism",
|
|
"antipathy",
|
|
"bad blood",
|
|
"bitterness",
|
|
"enmity",
|
|
"gall",
|
|
"grudge",
|
|
"hostility",
|
|
"jaundice",
|
|
"rancor"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073344",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"animus":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"amity"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will":[
|
|
"harbored an animus toward them",
|
|
"\u2026 the sixties mentality, with its strong animus against what it defines as \"elitism\" \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Daniel J. Singal"
|
|
],
|
|
": an inner masculine part of the female personality in the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung \u2014 compare anima":[],
|
|
": basic attitude or governing spirit : disposition , intention":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She felt an animus against them.",
|
|
"feeling no animus toward those who had wronged her",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Tarrio also told investigators that the animus between him and Rhodes can be traced back to a falling out in 2019, following an incident in Portland, Oregon. \u2014 Scott Macfarlane, CBS News , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The last of which was the animus behind two new bills signed into law this fall allowing for denser construction in California\u2019s cities and suburbs. \u2014 Ray Levy Uyeda, The New Republic , 9 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"While James\u2019s statements could reflect political or personal animus toward Trump, the judge said, her comments were not enough to prove that the attorney general had infringed upon Trump\u2019s rights. \u2014 Ben Protess, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
|
|
"In recent years, those issues have galvanized greater animus toward China among Democratic and Republican politicians and policymakers. \u2014 New York Times , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"All the while playing without animus toward Stevens or his former Celtics preseason teammates. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Now the Fraternal Order of Police has come out against her because of her seeming animus to cops. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"Miller has a federal civil suit pending against the county, arguing that the investigation of Woofin Palooza was motivated by a county animus toward the owners and that the business owners had committed no crimes. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 May 2022",
|
|
"The White House on Saturday tried unsuccessfully to contain the controversy, saying Biden's remarks were about the global impact of Putin's animus , not a call for Putin's immediate removal. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1795, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin, spirit, mind, courage, anger":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8an-\u0259-m\u0259s",
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animus enmity , hostility , antipathy , antagonism , animosity , rancor , animus mean deep-seated dislike or ill will. enmity suggests positive hatred which may be open or concealed. an unspoken enmity hostility suggests an enmity showing itself in attacks or aggression. hostility between the two nations antipathy and antagonism imply a natural or logical basis for one's hatred or dislike, antipathy suggesting repugnance, a desire to avoid or reject, and antagonism suggesting a clash of temperaments leading readily to hostility. a natural antipathy for self-seekers antagonism between the brothers animosity suggests intense ill will and vindictiveness that threaten to kindle hostility. animosity that led to revenge rancor is especially applied to bitter brooding over a wrong. rancor filled every line of his letters animus adds to animosity the implication of strong prejudice. objections devoid of personal animus",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"animosity",
|
|
"antagonism",
|
|
"antipathy",
|
|
"bad blood",
|
|
"bitterness",
|
|
"enmity",
|
|
"gall",
|
|
"grudge",
|
|
"hostility",
|
|
"jaundice",
|
|
"rancor"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182857",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
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"animal rights":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun",
|
|
"plural noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": rights (as to fair and humane treatment) regarded as belonging fundamentally to all animals":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Pork producers, buyers and animal rights activists have long been at odds over the proper way to house pregnant sows, which many hog farmers currently hold in enclosures called gestation crates. \u2014 Heather Haddon, WSJ , 26 May 2022",
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"The girl is both caretaker and best friend, but she and the mule are soon torn apart when animal rights activists protest the circus and EO is shipped off to a nearby horse farm. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
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"Ringling Brothers retired elephants from its shows in 2016 after years of complaints from animal rights activists, but ticket sales continued to decline, and the once iconic circus put on a final show the following year. \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 18 May 2022",
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"Instead, animal rights activists who want to ban thoroughbred racing stood shoulder to shoulder with horse lovers who have devoted their lives to the sport. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
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"The animal rights group that backed Mr. Icahn\u2019s efforts has mounted similar campaigns at a number of other food companies. \u2014 Heather Haddon, WSJ , 26 May 2022",
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"The animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, filed a citizen\u2019s complaint on Tuesday with the U.S Federal Trade Commission. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 May 2022",
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"The animal rights group said its campaign against Starbucks also included a letter from Paul McCartney to former Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson, as well as daily sit-ins at Starbucks' headquarters in Seattle. \u2014 Caitlin O'kane, CBS News , 11 May 2022",
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"The heat could add to ethical concerns from animal rights groups about the dangers of horse racing. \u2014 Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun , 20 May 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1845, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142419"
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},
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"animal starch":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": glycogen":[]
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"first_known_use":{
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"1854, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155228"
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},
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"animal spirits":{
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the nervous energy that is the source of physical sensation and movement":[],
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": vivacity arising from physical health and energy":[],
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": emotional feelings and desires (such as an optimistic willingness to take positive action) that influence the economic behavior of consumers and investors":[
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"If you ask how much consumers will consume and investors invest over the next few months, the answer is determined largely by feelings\u2014what John Maynard Keynes called \" animal spirits .\" If frightened people decide not to spend, their nervousness can translate into a depressed economy.",
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"\u2014 Paul Krugman"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"But investors shouldn\u2019t expect healthy animal spirits roaming back into the Indian IPO market just yet. \u2014 Megha Mandavia, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
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"Economist John Maynard Keynes\u2019 in the 1920s, held a notion of a sort of vibe amongst people, and its reflection/impact on economic outlook originates from people\u2019s inner animal spirits . \u2014 Alex Wagner, SPIN , 1 June 2022",
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"Ren\u00e9 Descartes believed that animal spirits flowed from the brain through hollow nerves and inflated the muscles, just as hydraulic fluid traveled through machines in the royal gardens at Saint-Germain. \u2014 Benjamin Ehrlich, Scientific American , 21 Mar. 2022",
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"Housing's animal spirits are roaring at the start of 2022, and next New Year's Eve will ring in another year that's a little less intoxicating, but still a winner. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 20 Jan. 2022",
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"Insurers may rarely get investors\u2019 animal spirits racing. \u2014 Telis Demos, WSJ , 19 Oct. 2021",
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"There is no greater enemy to animal spirits than ESG, yet the appetite for it appears to be insatiable. \u2014 Andy Martin, National Review , 10 Sep. 2021",
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"The revival in virtual currencies has excited the animal spirits of the crypto faithful, putting predictions of $100,000 or more for Bitcoin back in vogue. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 Aug. 2021",
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"The return of animal spirits in anticipation of a strong recovery is the better fundamental explanation. \u2014 George Calhoun, Forbes , 8 Apr. 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205644"
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},
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"animal soul":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the soul that in the scholastic tradition is characteristic of an animal and has sensitive, appetitive, and locomotive faculties and controls a more developed form of vital activity than the lower vegetable soul but has no independent existence apart from the body and is distinguished thereby from the higher rational soul \u2014 compare rational soul , vegetable soul":[],
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": the center of animal passions":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1677, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205738"
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},
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"anima":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8an-\u0259-m\u0259",
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"After the Nexus Event of Loki catching feelings for his Jungian anima , he and Sylvie are brought before the creepy animatronic Time-Keepers for sentencing. \u2014 Alex Kane, USA TODAY , 1 July 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin, from Latin, soul":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1923, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-232346"
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},
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"aniline dye":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Instead, Perkins stumbled into fashion history by inadvertently creating the first aniline dye , a deep mauve that was soon dubbed Perkin\u2019s purple. \u2014 Nancy Macdonell, WSJ , 31 Dec. 2019",
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"Lash Lure This 1933 mascara promised to give women that permanently made-up look using aniline dye on eyelashes. \u2014 Kat Eschner, Smithsonian , 26 June 2017"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1864, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-023300"
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},
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"animal step":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a dance step (as a fox trot, duck walk) named after and usually imitative of a beast, bird, or fish":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1951, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-034223"
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},
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"anion":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-\u02ccn\u012b-\u0259n",
|
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"\u02c8an-\u02cc\u012b-\u0259n"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"These are all meant to conduct metals, isotopic elemental, and anion analyses while determining physical and chemical properties. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 10 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"The former converts to H2, and the latter travels through the membrane, known as an anion exchange membrane (AEM). \u2014 Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS , 10 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Being an anion , meanwhile, means that the sulfidic molecules have negative charges. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 9 Apr. 2018",
|
|
"These carbon chain anions are akin to Legos that can be pieced together into larger molecules, reports Meghan Bartels for Mic. \u2014 Ben Panko, Smithsonian , 31 July 2017",
|
|
"This molecule, called a carbon chain anion , appears to be a catalyst for complicated chemical reactions, said lead author Ravi Desai. \u2014 OrlandoSentinel.com , 9 Aug. 2017",
|
|
"This molecule, called a carbon chain anion , appears to be a catalyst for complicated chemical reactions, said lead author Ravi Desai. \u2014 OrlandoSentinel.com , 9 Aug. 2017",
|
|
"This molecule, called a carbon chain anion , appears to be a catalyst for complicated chemical reactions, said lead author Ravi Desai. \u2014 Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com , 8 Aug. 2017",
|
|
"These carbon chain anions are akin to Legos that can be pieced together into larger molecules, reports Meghan Bartels for Mic. \u2014 Ben Panko, Smithsonian , 28 July 2017"
|
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Greek, neuter of ani\u014dn , present participle of anienai to go up, from ana- + ienai to go \u2014 more at issue entry 1":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1834, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043112"
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},
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"anils":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052409"
|
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},
|
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"animal-sized":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": sized with animal size":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1851, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071230"
|
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},
|
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"anion-active":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": anionic sense 2":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1944, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080544"
|
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},
|
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"anisometropia":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": unequal refractive power in the two eyes":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccan-\u02cc\u012b-s\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8tr\u014d-p\u0113-\u0259",
|
|
"\u02cca-\u02ccn\u012b-s\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8tr\u014d-p\u0113-\u0259"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin, from Greek anisometros of unequal measure (from anis- + metron measure) + New Latin -opia \u2014 more at measure":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1865, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-091556"
|
|
},
|
|
"aniline-formaldehyde resin":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a synthetic usually thermoplastic resin made from aniline and formaldehyde":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1945, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-092748"
|
|
},
|
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"Anisomyaria":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective or noun",
|
|
"plural noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": an order of Lamellibranchia comprising bivalve mollusks having the anterior adductor muscle highly developed and the posterior muscle only slightly developed":[]
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"-\u02ccm\u012b\u02c8a(a)r\u0113\u0259"
|
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],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin, from anis- entry 1 + -myaria":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1884, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-093911"
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},
|
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"anisometric":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": not isometric : having unsymmetrical parts":[
|
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"\u2014 used of crystals with three unequal axes"
|
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],
|
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": of or relating to a rock of granular texture but with constituents of unequal size":[
|
|
"anisometric granite"
|
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],
|
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": not having equal or corresponding poetic meters":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"a\u00a6n-",
|
|
"\u00a6a\u02ccn\u012bs\u0259\u00a6me\u2027trik"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French anisom\u00e9trique , from an- + isom\u00e9trique isometric":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1850, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095320"
|
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},
|
|
"aniline":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an oily liquid poisonous amine C 6 H 5 NH 2 obtained especially by the reduction of nitrobenzene and used chiefly in organic synthesis (as of dyes)":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8an-\u1d4al-\u0259n",
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-l\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The matte-gold P530 First Edition\u2019s interior materials are understated and elegant, including wood, aniline leather and luxurious leather-free fabrics. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"For the more traditionalists, there is still a wide choice of leather, including semi and near- aniline which undergo fewer treatments for less artificial pigmentation and a therefore a more natural finish. \u2014 Nargess Banks, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Medical personnel at Rubicon\u2019s first-aid center quickly diagnosed the problem: He had been exposed to aniline , a toxic chemical used to make plastics. \u2014 Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com , 3 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Less than a pound of aniline was released in the incident. \u2014 Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com , 3 Jan. 2021",
|
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"The interior of my test truck was wrapped in soft black aniline leather. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 17 Oct. 2020",
|
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"The interior of my test truck was wrapped in soft black aniline leather. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 17 Oct. 2020",
|
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"The interior of my test truck was wrapped in soft black aniline leather. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 17 Oct. 2020",
|
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"The interior of my test truck was wrapped in soft black aniline leather. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 17 Oct. 2020"
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"German Anilin , from Anil indigo, from French, from Portuguese, from Arabic al-n\u012bl the indigo plant, from Sanskrit n\u012bl\u012b indigo, from feminine of n\u012bla dark blue":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1842, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095906"
|
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},
|
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"anisomycin":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a white crystalline antibiotic C 14 H 19 NO 4 obtained from a soil streptomycete ( Streptomyces griseolus ) that inhibits protein synthesis, is effective against certain pathogenic protozoans and fungi, and is used especially in laboratory research":[
|
|
"The application of various inhibitors of protein synthesis such as anisomycin and cycloheximide disrupts long-term memory formation, while it leaves short-term memory almost intact.",
|
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"\u2014 Satoru Otani and Yehezkel Ben-Ari , International Review of Neurobiology, Volume 35 , 1993"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"a-\u00a6n\u012b-",
|
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"\u00a6a-\u02ccn\u012b-s\u0259-\u00a6m\u012b-s\u1d4an"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"probably from aniso yl, alternate name for methoxybenzoyl, a chemical component of the antibiotic (from anis(ic acid) + -oyl , in benzoyl ) + -mycin":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1954, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-100411"
|
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},
|
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"aniline hydrochloride":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a white crystalline salt C 6 H 5 NH 3 Cl made from aniline and hydrochloric acid and used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes and in the production of aniline black":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1869, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-104418"
|
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},
|
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"animal size":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": an animal glue or gelatin used for surface-sizing the higher grades of paper":[],
|
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": a solution or other preparation of animal size":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1799, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104034"
|
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},
|
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"animal rouge":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": carmine sense 2":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1885, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-121211"
|
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},
|
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"animal heat":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": body heat":[]
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1603, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-121849"
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"anionic":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": of or relating to anions":[],
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": characterized by an active and especially surface-active anion":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-(\u02cc)n\u012b-\u02c8\u00e4-nik",
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"\u02ccan-(\u02cc)\u012b-\u02c8\u00e4n-ik"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The cationic molecules in this detergent work to pull out the anionic sweat and bacteria particles in our clothes like a magnet. \u2014 Sarah Madaus, SELF , 11 Sep. 2020"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1903, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-125508"
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},
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"anion exchange":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a chemical process in which anions are exchanged or removed:":[],
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": ion exchange in which one anion (as chloride or hydroxide) is substituted for one or more other anions (as sulfate)":[],
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": a process in which anions in the form of acids are adsorbed by a basic substance":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1931, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-132847"
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},
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"anion-exchange resin":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": an ion-exchange resin that contains basic chemical groups for exchanging anions":[
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"In strongly alkaline mobile phases, sugar anions are separated on a positively charged strong anion-exchange resin .",
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"\u2014 Alfred Steinbach and Andrea Wille , Food Engineering & Ingredients , 1 Oct. 2008"
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],
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"\u2014 compare cation-exchange resin":[
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"In strongly alkaline mobile phases, sugar anions are separated on a positively charged strong anion-exchange resin .",
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"\u2014 Alfred Steinbach and Andrea Wille , Food Engineering & Ingredients , 1 Oct. 2008"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1941, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-140402"
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},
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"anion exchanger":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1941, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-143207"
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},
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"animal husbandman":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": a specialist in animal husbandry":[],
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": one that keeps or tends livestock":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1899, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-145550"
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},
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"Aniliidae":{
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"type":[
|
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"plural noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a small family of tropical nonvenomous burrowing snakes with vestigial pelvis and vestigial hind legs":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u012b\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from New Latin, from Anilius , type genus (from Anilios , according to Buffon [18th-century French naturalist George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon] the name of a snake of the genus Typhlops on Cyprus) + -idae -idae":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-175032"
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},
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"aniliid":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a snake of the family Aniliidae":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan\u1d4al\u02c8\u012b\u0259\u0307d"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin Aniliidae":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1956, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-185907"
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},
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"anilox":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a system of printing that utilizes ceramic-coated metal cylinders to transfer consistent amounts of ink from a supply to the printing plates":[
|
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"\u2014 often used before another noun A measured amount of ink is deposited upon the surface of the printing plate (or cylinder) using an anilox roll. The surface rotates, contacting the print material, which transfers the ink. \u2014 Howard Riell , Printing News , 10 Mar. 2008"
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]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccl\u00e4ks"
|
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],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"former trademark of the International Printing Ink Division of the Interchemical Corporation, manufacturer of aniline inks":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1950, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191359"
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},
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"aniline black":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a black dye produced on fiber (as cotton) by the oxidation of aniline oil or aniline hydrochloride and noted for its fastness, intensity of color, and resistance to greening":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1864, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193420"
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},
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"anisomerism":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": the tendency of the primitive polyisomeres of an organism to become differentiated so that more highly evolved organisms do not consist of a linear series of similar and equivalent parts":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cca\u02ccn\u012b\u02c8s\u00e4m\u0259\u02ccriz\u0259m"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"an- + isomere + -ism":""
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"1933, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210840"
|
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},
|
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"animal glue":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an adhesive, sizing agent, and protective colloidal material that is obtained by hydrolysis of proteins of the skins, bones, connective tissues, and tendons of cattle, sheep, goats, horses, and other animals":[]
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1753, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220438"
|
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},
|
|
"animadversion":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a critical and usually censorious remark":[
|
|
"\u2014 often used with on"
|
|
],
|
|
": adverse criticism":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02ccmad-\u02c8v\u0259r-zh\u0259n",
|
|
"-\u02c8v\u0259r-sh\u0259n",
|
|
"-m\u0259d-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin animadversion-, animadversio , from animadvertere":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1583, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235244"
|
|
},
|
|
"anisomyodian":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": having the syringeal muscles inserted unequally either in the middle of the bronchial half rings or only upon the dorsal or ventral ends of the bronchial half rings":[
|
|
"\u2014 used of certain passerine birds"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02ccm\u012b\u00a6\u014dd\u0113\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"anis- entry 1 + Greek my\u014dd\u0113s muscular + English -ian or -ous":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1901, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001129"
|
|
},
|
|
"animadvert":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": notice , observe":[],
|
|
": to make an animadversion":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-m\u0259d-",
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02ccmad-\u02c8v\u0259rt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin animadvertere to pay attention to, censure, from animum advertere , literally, to turn the mind to":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-043635"
|
|
},
|
|
"aniline ink":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a quick-drying printing ink usually made with an alcohol as vehicle and an organic or inorganic pigment":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1869, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-052855"
|
|
},
|
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"anis-":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"combining form"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": unequal":[
|
|
"aniso tropic"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin, from Greek, from anisos , from a- + isos equal":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-053419"
|
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},
|
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"animal husbandry":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a branch of agriculture concerned with the production and care of domestic animals":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Damselfish cultivate gardens of algae, and some ants have even developed a form of animal husbandry that includes shepherding stocks of aphids and mealy bugs. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"The 104-acre Beltsville site once served as the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s largest scientific installation, hosting 17 research laboratories specializing in subjects from hydrology to animal husbandry . \u2014 Ryan White, Baltimore Sun , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Overall, try to eat real food that was grown with integrity, ideally on small, sustainable farms with humane animal husbandry practices rather than large factory farms and concentrated animal feeding operations. \u2014 Jessica Dulong, CNN , 5 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The state lawmaker and Wade Garrett of the farm bureau both assert the bill is needed to safeguard traditional agriculture and animal husbandry practices, such as docking lambs\u2019 tails or castrating calves. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Some of the entrants had a lifetime of experience with animal husbandry in the wilderness. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Fowl coronaviruses and swine coronaviruses are widespread problems in commercial animal husbandry , and mouse hepatitis virus has been a common nuisance infection in laboratory mouse colonies. \u2014 Donald S. Burke, STAT , 18 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Other cuneiform texts also describe animal husbandry programs used to breed the kunga, Science reports. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 20 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"There is no doubt that agriculture and animal husbandry has provided much more, and often better, products on a regular basis. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 13 Oct. 2021"
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|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1835, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-054107"
|
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},
|
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"animal cracker":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a small cookie in the shape of an animal":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Majumdar recommends protein-rich snacks, such as roasted chickpeas, which can be eaten in place of snacks devoid of protein, such as animal crackers , for example. \u2014 Lisa Drayer, CNN , 25 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Urban decorated the turrets and domed interiors with simulated frosting, gumdrops, peppermint sticks, animal crackers , gingerbread men and other sweets. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"Make the Crust: Process the animal crackers in a food processor until finely ground, about 10 seconds. \u2014 Danielle Pointdujour, Essence , 20 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Children\u2019s Librarian Allison Whiston was busy on a recent Saturday morning, putting animal crackers and goldfish in snack cups in the community room of the Killingly Public Library. \u2014 Denise Coffey, courant.com , 14 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"The subtly sweet, local version of mol\u00e9 that turns out to be thickened not only with bread but with animal crackers . \u2014 Michalene Busico, Dallas News , 31 July 2019",
|
|
"During that time, police talked with some of the neighbors and fed Angel some animal crackers that were in the squad car. \u2014 Fox News , 29 July 2019",
|
|
"After 116 years of captivity, animal crackers have been freed from their cages. \u2014 Matthew Haag, The Seattle Times , 21 Aug. 2018",
|
|
"After more than a century behind bars, the beasts on boxes of animal crackers are roaming free. \u2014 Dee-ann Durbin, The Seattle Times , 20 Aug. 2018"
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|
],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1878, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-064940"
|
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},
|
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"Anisomys":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a genus of giant rats of New Guinea and Papua":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"a\u02c8n\u012bs\u0259\u02ccmis"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin, from anis- entry 1 + -mys":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-070606"
|
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},
|
|
"aniline oil":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": aniline":[
|
|
"\u2014 used chiefly commercially"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1863, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-075802"
|
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},
|
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"aniline point":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the lowest temperature at which aniline and a solvent (as gasoline) are completely miscible and which serves as an indication of the type of hydrocarbons present in the solvent, the content of aromatics being higher according as the temperature is lower":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-082210"
|
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},
|
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"anisaldehyde":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a liquid aldehyde CH 3 OC 6 H 4 CHO obtained by mild oxidation of anethole, having a characteristic hawthorn odor, and used in making perfumes":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8sald\u0259\u02cch\u012bd"
|
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],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"International Scientific Vocabulary anis- entry 2 + aldehyde":""
|
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1856, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-083143"
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},
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"anisate":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a salt or ester of anisic acid":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8an\u0259\u02ccs\u0101t",
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"-s\u0259\u0307t"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"International Scientific Vocabulary anis ic + -ate":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1845, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-094352"
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},
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"anionic detergent":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of a class of synthetic detergents usually consisting essentially of an alkali metal salt or an ammonium salt of a strong acid containing 12 to 24 carbon atoms together with an inorganic salt (as sodium sulfate) and, for heavy-duty laundering, a builder (as sodium tripolyphosphate):as":[],
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": an alkyl aryl sulfonate (as sodium dodecyl-benzene-sulfonate C 12 H 25 C 6 H 4 SO 3 Na)":[],
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": a salt (as sodium lauryl sulfate C 12 H 25 SO 4 Na) of a sulfated alcohol":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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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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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-103354"
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},
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"anisophyllous":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun,"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": having leaves of two or more shapes and sizes":[
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"some conifers and many aquatic plants are anisophyllous"
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],
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": having the leaves of a pair different in shape and size \u2014 compare isophyllous":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u00a6a\u02ccn\u012bs\u0259\u00a6fil\u0259s",
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"a\u00a6n-"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French anisophylle , from anis- entry 1 + -phylle -phyllous":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1858, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-105623"
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},
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"animal flower":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": an animal (as a hydroid) resembling a flower":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1743, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-112050"
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},
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"anions":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8an-\u02cc\u012b-\u0259n",
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"\u02c8a-\u02ccn\u012b-\u0259n"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"These are all meant to conduct metals, isotopic elemental, and anion analyses while determining physical and chemical properties. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 10 Dec. 2019",
|
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"The former converts to H2, and the latter travels through the membrane, known as an anion exchange membrane (AEM). \u2014 Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS , 10 Mar. 2020",
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"Being an anion , meanwhile, means that the sulfidic molecules have negative charges. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 9 Apr. 2018",
|
|
"These carbon chain anions are akin to Legos that can be pieced together into larger molecules, reports Meghan Bartels for Mic. \u2014 Ben Panko, Smithsonian , 31 July 2017",
|
|
"This molecule, called a carbon chain anion , appears to be a catalyst for complicated chemical reactions, said lead author Ravi Desai. \u2014 OrlandoSentinel.com , 9 Aug. 2017",
|
|
"This molecule, called a carbon chain anion , appears to be a catalyst for complicated chemical reactions, said lead author Ravi Desai. \u2014 OrlandoSentinel.com , 9 Aug. 2017",
|
|
"This molecule, called a carbon chain anion , appears to be a catalyst for complicated chemical reactions, said lead author Ravi Desai. \u2014 Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com , 8 Aug. 2017",
|
|
"These carbon chain anions are akin to Legos that can be pieced together into larger molecules, reports Meghan Bartels for Mic. \u2014 Ben Panko, Smithsonian , 28 July 2017"
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Greek, neuter of ani\u014dn , present participle of anienai to go up, from ana- + ienai to go \u2014 more at issue entry 1":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1834, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-133624"
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},
|
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"animalculism":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a former theory in biology: various obscure physiological and pathological phenomena are caused by the activities of minute invisible animals":[],
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": a former theory in biology: the spermatozoon contains the whole embryo in miniature \u2014 compare ovism":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"-ky\u0259\u02ccliz\u0259m"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1845, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-161827"
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},
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"anisoploid":{
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
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"noun,"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": having a chromosome number (as triploid, pentaploid) that is an odd multiple of the basic number with consequent genetic incapability of sexual reproduction":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"(\u02c8)a\u00a6n\u012bs\u0259\u02ccpl\u022fid"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"anis- entry 1 + -ploid":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1940, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-175631"
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},
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"animal faith":{
|
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": instinctive belief without rational foundation":[
|
|
"\u2014 used especially in the philosophy of George Santayana"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1831, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-183509"
|
|
},
|
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"anise":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259s",
|
|
"\u02c8an-\u0259s",
|
|
"also \u0259-\u02c8n\u0113s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Tasting notes include fruitcake, baking spice and orange marmalade on the nose, with a mixture of cherry, tobacco, mint and a touch of anise on the palate. \u2014 Jonah Flicker, Robb Report , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"With an intense aroma of black and red fruits and just a hint of anise , this lovely drinking wine tastes of opulence with a long, lingering finish. \u2014 Jeanette Hurt, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
|
|
"One good native to mix in with daylilies is vertical growing native blazing stars or native anise hyssop Agastache foeniculum. \u2014 Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
|
|
"Herbal character showing menthol and anise , then leading into cooked compote of strawberry and cherry pie in this 100% Sangiovese wine. \u2014 Lana Bortolot, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Spry and fresh light aromas or spring red fruit, holly, peat, anise . \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
|
|
"The foliage and the flowers have the scent of anise or licorice. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 1 May 2022",
|
|
"Savory herbal nose with anise and saline notes, very pretty and complete with direct fruit and fresh acid. \u2014 Lana Bortolot, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Dark fruit follows\u2014blackberry and plum\u2014sharing palate space with complex and balancing layers of violets, espresso, anise and leather. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 14 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English anis , from Anglo-French, from Latin anisum , from Greek ann\u0113son, anison":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-183802"
|
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},
|
|
"anise alcohol":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": anisyl alcohol":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1857, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-183838"
|
|
},
|
|
"animal unit":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a unit expressing the feed requirements of different kinds of domestic animals on a common scale usually based on the average or theoretical requirements of a mature cow":[
|
|
"100 hens equal one animal unit"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1904, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-211048"
|
|
},
|
|
"animalcule":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a minute usually microscopic organism":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8mal-(\u02cc)ky\u00fc(\u0259)l",
|
|
"\u02ccan-\u0259-\u02c8mal-(\u02cc)ky\u00fc(\u0259)l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, wooly mammoths roamed the earth. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 17 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Van Leeuwenhoek estimated, correctly, that there were more animalcules swimming and creeping around in his mouth than there were people living in the Netherlands. \u2014 Jonathan Weiner, New York Times , 15 Aug. 2016"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin animalculum , diminutive of Latin animal":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1662, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-220841"
|
|
},
|
|
"animalculist":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a specialist in animalcules":[],
|
|
": one that accepts animalculism":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-l\u0259\u0307st"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1803, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-230455"
|
|
},
|
|
"animalcular":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of, relating to, or resembling animalcules":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u00a6an\u0259\u00a6malky\u0259l\u0259(r)"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1748, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-233512"
|
|
},
|
|
"anima mundi":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a vital force or principle conceived of as permeating the world \u2014 compare archeus , world soul":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-mu\u0307n(\u02cc)d\u0113",
|
|
"\u02ccan\u0259m\u0259\u02c8m\u0259n\u02ccd\u012b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Medieval Latin, vital force of the world":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1655, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-003554"
|
|
},
|
|
"anisopolyploid":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun,"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": anisoploid":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u00a6a\u02ccn\u012bs\u0259\u00a6p\u00e4l\u0259\u02ccpl\u022fid",
|
|
"a\u00a6n-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"anis- entry 1 + polyploid":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1956, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-014955"
|
|
},
|
|
"anionoid":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": nucleophilic":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"(\u02c8)a\u00a6n\u012b\u0259\u02ccn\u022fid"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"anion + -oid":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1925, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-052934"
|
|
},
|
|
"animal electricity":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1765, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-060355"
|
|
},
|
|
"anisyl alcohol":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a colorless liquid alcohol CH 3 OC 6 H 4 CH 2 OH having an odor like hawthorn and used in perfumery; para -methoxy-benzyl alcohol":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8an\u0259\u02ccsil-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"International Scientific Vocabulary anis- entry 2 + -yl":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1864, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-100232"
|
|
},
|
|
"anisum":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": anise":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259\u02c8n\u012bs\u0259m",
|
|
"-\u0113s-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin anisum, anesum":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1525, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-110337"
|
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},
|
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"animando":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": becoming animated":[
|
|
"\u2014 used as a direction in music"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8m\u00e4n(\u02cc)d\u014d",
|
|
"\u02cc\u00e4n\u0259-"
|
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],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Italian, animating, from Latin animandium , gerund of animare":""
|
|
},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1865, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-110443"
|
|
},
|
|
"animal oil":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1721, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-112849"
|
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},
|
|
"anima sana in corpore sano":{
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"type":[
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"Latin phrase"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": mens sana in corpore sano":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8s\u00e4-n\u00e4-in-\u02cck\u022fr-p\u022f-re-\u02c8s\u00e4-n\u014d"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-113353"
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},
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"anisocarpic":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": having fewer members in the whorl of carpels than in any of the other floral whorls \u2014 compare isocarpic":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u00a6a\u02ccn\u012bs\u0259\u00a6k\u00e4rpik",
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"a\u00a6n-"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"anis- entry 1 + -carpic, -carpous":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1881, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-121900"
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},
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"animalcules":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a minute usually microscopic organism":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan-\u0259-\u02c8mal-(\u02cc)ky\u00fc(\u0259)l",
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8mal-(\u02cc)ky\u00fc(\u0259)l"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, wooly mammoths roamed the earth. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 17 Aug. 2021",
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"Van Leeuwenhoek estimated, correctly, that there were more animalcules swimming and creeping around in his mouth than there were people living in the Netherlands. \u2014 Jonathan Weiner, New York Times , 15 Aug. 2016"
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin animalculum , diminutive of Latin animal":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1662, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-124318"
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},
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"aniseed":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
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": the seed of anise often used as a flavoring in liqueurs and in cooking":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259(s)-\u02ccs\u0113d"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Basmati rice grown in the Himalayan foothills is the base for this silky Indian vodka, distilled five times in a certified carbon-neutral facility, then infused with aniseed for rich flavor. \u2014 Betsy Andrews, WSJ , 18 Dec. 2021",
|
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"Baked apples and oak hit first but then takes an herbal and fragrant turn towards aniseed , fennel, and celery dipped in peanut butter. \u2014 Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
|
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"That\u2019s an apt description of the 2018 Bohan-Dillon, which recalls raspberry, pine needles and aniseed , and whose bright, expressive fruit flavors are countered with a pleasant bitterness. \u2014 Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com , 4 Nov. 2020",
|
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"But in the evenings, relatives and friends would come to visit \u2014 everyone would be glued to the TV \u2014 and there was always cardamom coffee and malateet or makarona (savory or sweet aniseed crackers) on the coffee table. \u2014 Reem Kassis, Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2020",
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"Some of these were fairly mainstream, like pink grapefruit and chamomile; others were more recherch\u00e9, like aniseed and cassia; and one, Grains of Paradise, sounded like a gnarly and sardonic rock band from Hawaii. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 2 Dec. 2019",
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"On the primi side of things, penne with broccoli rabe included abundant chunks of a sausage rewardingly strong on the fennel- aniseed flavor. \u2014 Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com , 25 Oct. 2019",
|
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"Finish your meals with a chupito (shot) of hierbas ibicencas\u2014a savory-sweet liqueur blended with wild herbs and aniseed . \u2014 National Geographic , 16 Aug. 2019",
|
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"For this first go-around, the machines evidently poured over infinite iterations to help Mackmyra create AI Whisky, a golden yellow single-malt with herbal notes of aniseed , ginger, and white pepper and a citrusy, spicy mouth with a dry finish. \u2014 Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics , 10 May 2019"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English anis seed , from anis + seed":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-133112"
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},
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"Anisomeles":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a small genus of herbs (family Labiatae) of tropical Asia and Australia with purplish cymose flowers":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca\u02ccn\u012b\u02c8s\u00e4m\u0259\u02ccl\u0113z"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin, from anis- entry 1 + -meles (from Greek mel\u0113 cup); from the lack of uniformity in the anthers":""
|
|
},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1811, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-133617"
|
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},
|
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"anisotropic liquid":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": liquid crystal":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1900, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-142532"
|
|
},
|
|
"anisole":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a colorless liquid ether C 6 H 5 OCH 3 of pleasant odor obtained by distilling anisic acid or by the action of dimethyl sulfate and alkali on phenol and used chiefly in perfumery; methyl phenyl ether":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8an\u0259\u02ccs\u014dl"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French anisol , from anis- aniso- entry 2 + -ol -ole":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1842, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-144518"
|
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},
|
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"anisognathism":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the property of having the teeth in the two jaws unlike":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca\u02ccn\u012b\u02c8s\u00e4gn\u0259\u02ccthiz\u0259m"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"anis- entry 1 + gnath- + -ism":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"1878, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-150557"
|
|
},
|
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"animal mound":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": effigy mound":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1838, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-155542"
|
|
},
|
|
"animal dance":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a stylized dance (as among American Indians) imitating or suggestive of the movements of an animal or bird (as a bear or owl) often marked by the use of masks":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1879, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-161327"
|
|
},
|
|
"anisotropic":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"noun,"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": exhibiting properties with different values when measured in different directions":[
|
|
"an anisotropic crystal"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"(\u02cc)an-\u02cc\u012b-s\u0259-\u02c8tr\u00e4p-ik",
|
|
"\u02cca-\u02ccn\u012b-s\u0259-\u02c8tr\u00e4-pik"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Games on 1080p TVs will also get anisotropic filtering and faster load times on the Xbox One X. And like the Xbox One S, Microsoft\u2019s new console also supports glorious high-dynamic range visuals. \u2014 Brad Chacos, PCWorld , 11 June 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"aniso- + -tropic , probably after German anisotropisch":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1854, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-171030"
|
|
},
|
|
"anisidine":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": any one of three isomeric bases CH 3 OC 6 H 4 NH 2 that are amino derivatives of anisole and are used in the manufacture of guaiacol and of azo dyes":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-d\u0259\u0307n",
|
|
"\u0259\u02c8nis\u0259\u02ccd\u0113n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French, from anis- anis- entry 2 + -ide + -ine":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1849, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-172652"
|
|
},
|
|
"aniseed star":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the fruit of the star anise":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1835, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-174334"
|
|
},
|
|
"anisocercal":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": not isocercal":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u00a6s\u0259rk\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"anis- entry 1 + -cercal":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1902, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-175048"
|
|
},
|
|
"anisogeny":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the property of exhibiting different inheritance in reciprocal crosses because of consistent differences in the male and female gametes of the parents":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca\u02ccn\u012b\u02c8s\u00e4j\u0259n\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"anis- entry 1 + -geny":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1928, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-190209"
|
|
},
|
|
"animating":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": possessing or characterized by life : alive":[],
|
|
": full of life : animated":[],
|
|
": of or relating to animal life as opposed to plant life":[],
|
|
": referring to a living thing":[
|
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"an animate noun"
|
|
],
|
|
": to give spirit and support to : encourage":[],
|
|
": to give life to":[],
|
|
": to give vigor and zest to":[],
|
|
": to move to action":[
|
|
"a criminal animated by greed"
|
|
],
|
|
": to make or design in such a way as to create apparently spontaneous lifelike movement":[
|
|
"animate a cartoon"
|
|
],
|
|
": to produce in the form of an animated cartoon":[
|
|
"animate a story"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8an-\u0259-m\u0259t",
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259t",
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"active",
|
|
"airy",
|
|
"animated",
|
|
"bouncing",
|
|
"brisk",
|
|
"energetic",
|
|
"frisky",
|
|
"gay",
|
|
"jaunty",
|
|
"jazzy",
|
|
"kinetic",
|
|
"lively",
|
|
"mettlesome",
|
|
"peppy",
|
|
"perky",
|
|
"pert",
|
|
"pizzazzy",
|
|
"pizazzy",
|
|
"racy",
|
|
"snappy",
|
|
"spanking",
|
|
"sparky",
|
|
"spirited",
|
|
"sprightly",
|
|
"springy",
|
|
"vital",
|
|
"vivacious",
|
|
"zippy"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"amp (up)",
|
|
"brace",
|
|
"energize",
|
|
"enliven",
|
|
"fillip",
|
|
"fire",
|
|
"ginger (up)",
|
|
"invigorate",
|
|
"jazz (up)",
|
|
"juice up",
|
|
"jump-start",
|
|
"liven (up)",
|
|
"pep (up)",
|
|
"quicken",
|
|
"spike",
|
|
"stimulate",
|
|
"vitalize",
|
|
"vivify",
|
|
"zip (up)"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animate Verb quicken , animate , enliven , vivify mean to make alive or lively. quicken stresses a sudden renewal of life or activity especially in something inert. the arrival of spring quickens the earth animate emphasizes the imparting of motion or vitality to what is or might be mechanical or artificial. happiness animated his conversation enliven suggests a stimulus that arouses from dullness or torpidity. enlivened her lectures with humorous anecdotes vivify implies a freshening or energizing through renewal of vitality. new blood needed to vivify the dying club",
|
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
|
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"The lecture was about ancient worship of animate and inanimate objects.",
|
|
"an animate dance routine that will really get the blood pumping",
|
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"Verb",
|
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"The writer's humor animates the novel.",
|
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"The film's very realistic dinosaurs were animated on computers.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
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"As such, they should be treated as \u2018 animate tools,\u2019 instruments rather than ends. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
|
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"Science is a process, not an animate object that speaks. \u2014 Michael Lynch, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Creativity, making, and imagining animate Black self-determination with that which only culture can provide. \u2014 ELLE , 31 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Drawing animate objects was forbidden, as on the day of judgment, God would ask me to put life in them. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 28 Mar. 2022",
|
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"At one point, Atung abruptly drops out of the show, eliminating its only source of interpersonal intrigue and allowing Afong to complete her transformation into an animate textbook. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
|
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"This time the town is not empty but crowded with animate memories. \u2014 Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books , 19 Nov. 2020",
|
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"Ethics begins by recognizing that entities of this Earth are both material and animate . \u2014 Kathleen Dean Moore, The Conversation , 20 Oct. 2021",
|
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"This time the town is not empty but crowded with animate memories. \u2014 Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books , 19 Nov. 2020",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
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"The kind of people who animate our communities, enrich them with color and spice and energy, and make our municipal sidewalks spring to life. \u2014 Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com , 8 July 2022",
|
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"The dichotomy is a stunning example of how to animate the psyche. \u2014 Holly Jones, Variety , 15 June 2022",
|
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"Professor Merriman spent nearly all his teaching career at Yale, a rumpled figure who used his storytelling gifts to animate his lectures on French and European history. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
|
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"But whether the latest cut will help animate people to spend money anytime soon amid the uncertainty over the war is another matter. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 2 May 2022",
|
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"Rather, it was meant to animate the engravings as a form of Paleolithic entertainment. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Rasmussen decided to animate the story as a way of making his friend feel safe enough to speak his truth. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 20 Mar. 2022",
|
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"An Intricate shutter design, a cozy pile of purple floral pillows, and a golden damask-print coverlet animate this bedroom designed by Kristin Hein and Philip Cozi. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 23 June 2022",
|
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"With Trump exiting the White House, Fox needed a dominating personality to animate its news and talk shows. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022"
|
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English, from Latin animatus , past participle of animare to give life to, from anima breath, soul; akin to Old English \u014dthian to breathe, Latin animus spirit, Greek anemos wind, Sanskrit aniti he breathes":"Adjective and Verb"
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-192710"
|
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},
|
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"animal model":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The researchers found that supplementing a diet with sea squirts, more formally called Ascidiacea, can reverse the signs of aging in an animal model . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 22 May 2022",
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"But Glanville, then the chief executive officer of a tiny San Francisco company called Distributed Bio, has made significant progress, successfully creating an antibody that neutralizes the coronavirus in hamsters, an animal model for humans. \u2014 Kyle Dickman, Outside Online , 4 Mar. 2021",
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"There is increasing data in animal model experiments that reducing the number of senescent cells via pharmacological or genetic approaches can reverse these physiological deficits and even extend lifespan. \u2014 Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022",
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"Scientists had pinpointed mink as a likely animal model in which to study the pathogenesis of coronaviruses 16 years ago, in the wake of the first global SARS outbreak. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Jan. 2022",
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"The very first animal model of obesity set the precedent. \u2014 Gary Taubes, STAT , 16 Sep. 2021",
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"Today, this is known as an animal model of the disease. \u2014 James P. Brody, The Conversation , 21 July 2021",
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"But in a Nature paper published in 2016, our team investigated both memory storage and memory recall processes in an animal model of early Alzheimer\u2019s disease. \u2014 Dheeraj Roy, Scientific American , 19 Oct. 2020",
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"Primates are not always the best animal model for every aspect of the disease. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 31 Aug. 2020"
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"1955, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Anisoptera":{
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a suborder of Odonata comprising the dragonflies that are larger stouter members of the order, hold the wings horizontally in repose, and have rectal gills during the naiad stage \u2014 compare zygoptera":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca\u02ccn\u012b\u02c8s\u00e4pt\u0259r\u0259"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from anis- entry 1 + -ptera":""
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"first_known_use":{
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"1831, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-195042"
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},
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"anisospore":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a sexual spore exhibiting sexual dimorphism especially of size":[
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"\u2014 opposed to isospore"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u02c8)a\u02c8n\u012bs\u0259\u02ccsp\u014d(\u0259)r"
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],
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"anis- entry 1 + spore":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1887, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-200825"
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},
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"aniso-":{
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"type":[
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"combining form"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": unequal":[
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"aniso tropic"
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]
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Greek, from anisos , from a- + isos equal":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-220222"
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"animal kingdom":{
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
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": a basic group of natural objects that includes all living and extinct animals \u2014 compare mineral kingdom , plant kingdom":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Using vibrations to track food isn\u2019t uncommon in the animal kingdom , however, scientists were unaware that seals use their whiskers to track prey in deeper waters. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 17 June 2022",
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"In the animal kingdom , males are often presumed to be the most dominant. \u2014 Jennifer Maas, Variety , 16 June 2022",
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"Our eyes are among the sharpest in the animal kingdom , but their high resolution comes with the cost of low sensitivity. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022",
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"As the researchers surmised, D. xiezhi males butted heads over mates with a force perhaps never before seen in the animal kingdom and never seen since. \u2014 Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American , 2 June 2022",
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"That process of reproducing is rare in the animal kingdom yet happens in certain environmental conditions. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
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"These bleats, chirps and squeaks amount to a novel possession in the animal kingdom \u2014 a label that conveys an identity, comparable to a human name. \u2014 Sarah Sloat, NBC News , 26 May 2022",
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"Of course, there is no such thing for the animal kingdom . \u2014 Christoph Droesser, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Oct. 2021",
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"Frederick II was a keen scientist, with a fascination for the animal kingdom and the human body. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 28 June 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1650, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-220924"
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},
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"animal control":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": an office or department responsible for enforcing ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"On Wednesday, animal control officers returned to the Esplanade and rescued five cygnets, which are being taken to the Cape Wildlife Center, a veterinary clinic in Barnstable, to be evaluated, officials said. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
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"An actual bat was spotted swooping around inside the theater, putting the movie on pause while management called animal control and tried \u2014 unsuccessfully \u2014 to get the critter out, KXAN reported Friday. \u2014 Chron , 7 Mar. 2022",
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"If a resident calls animal control about a coyote in the area, the officer will most likely run through a checklist of what\u2019s potentially attracting the animal. \u2014 Robin Goist, cleveland , 25 Dec. 2021",
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"At least two neighbors watched Lexi\u2019s plight and telephoned animal control to report this benign neglect, but the complaints came to nothing; the legal threshold for abuse of animals is pretty high. \u2014 Gene Weingarten, Washington Post , 8 Nov. 2021",
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"The bear was spotted by a member of the public, and the sighting was confirmed by animal control officers, Jones said. \u2014 Martin Weil, Washington Post , 7 June 2022",
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"Both Abbott and Mauldin said residents are encouraged to call 311 to have the information forwarded to the city\u2019s animal control officers. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 4 June 2022",
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"All of the animals were in the custody of local animal control officers until a court determines placement. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 17 May 2022",
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"The owner of the plucky poultry crowing at all hours has surrendered the rooster to San Francisco animal control officers. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 Mar. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1951, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-224739"
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},
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"anisic aldehyde":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": anisaldehyde":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1857, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-231004"
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},
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"anise camphor":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": anethole":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1849, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-231425"
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},
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"animal mechanics":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the laws of equilibrium and motion in the animal body":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1809, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-003205"
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},
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"aniline printing":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a process in which nonabsorbent surfaces are printed with aniline inks":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1865, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-005704"
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},
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"aniseed tree":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": star anise":[]
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1770, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-013143"
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},
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"anisochela":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": a chelate sponge spicule having the ends dissimilar":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8k\u0113l\u0259"
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from anis- entry 1 + chela":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-040527"
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},
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"animal charcoal":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1793, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-043718"
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},
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"anito":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a spirit especially of an ancestor":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259\u02c8n\u0113(\u02cc)t\u014d"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Spanish, from Tagalog":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1784, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-053809"
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},
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"anisogenous":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": of, relating to, or marked by anisogeny":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u00a6a\u02ccn\u012b\u00a6s\u00e4j\u0259n\u0259s"
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1956, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-063737"
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},
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"anisogamous":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
|
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"noun,"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": characterized by fusion of heterogamous gametes or of individuals that usually differ chiefly in size":[
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"anisogamous reproduction"
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]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cca-(\u02cc)n\u012b-\u02c8s\u00e4-g\u0259-m\u0259s",
|
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"\u02ccan-(\u02cc)\u012b-\u02c8s\u00e4g-\u0259-m\u0259s"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-075649"
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},
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"Anisotremus":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
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": a genus of tropical American grunts (family Pomadasidae) including a number of food and game species (as the porkfish, the pompon, and the sargo)":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u00a6)a\u02ccn\u012bs\u0259\u02c8tr\u0113m\u0259s"
|
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from anis- entry 1 + -tremus (from Greek tr\u0113ma perforation, aperture)":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1861, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-082634"
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},
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"animal cellulose":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
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": a substance like cellulose occurring in the test of certain tunicates":[]
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1846, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-083753"
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},
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"ani":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": any of a genus ( Crotophaga ) of black cuckoos of the warmer parts of America":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u00e4-\u02c8n\u0113",
|
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"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0113"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from New Latin, perhaps erroneously for Tupi *an\u00fa\u0294\u00ed (whence Brazilian Portuguese anu\u00ed \"smooth-billed ani\"), from an\u00fa \"ani\" + \u0294\u00ed \"small\"":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1773, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-084047"
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},
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"anise hyssop":{
|
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"type":[
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"noun"
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|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a North American herb ( Agastache foeniculum ) with an odor like fennel":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"probably so called from the aromatic nature of its seeds":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1857, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-092438"
|
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},
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"animal black":{
|
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
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": a black pigment made by carbonizing animal matter: such as":[],
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": bone black":[],
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": drop black":[],
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": ivory black":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1819, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-102923"
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},
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"anisic acid":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a crystalline acid CH 3 OC 6 H 4 COOH obtained by oxidizing anethole or anisaldehyde":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259\u02c8nisik",
|
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"(\u02c8)a\u00a6n- also -n\u012b- sometimes -n\u0113-"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"International Scientific Vocabulary anise + -ic ; originally formed as French anisique":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1842, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-103921"
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},
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"aniseikonia":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a defect of binocular vision in which the two retinal images of an object differ in size":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan-\u02cc\u012b-\u02ccs\u012b-\u02c8k\u014d-n\u0113-\u0259",
|
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"\u02cca-\u02ccn\u012b-\u02ccs\u012b-\u02c8k\u014d-n\u0113-\u0259"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"anis- + Greek eik\u1e53n \"image\" + -ia entry 1 \u2014 more at icon":""
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},
|
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"1934, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-104031"
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"Aniakchak Crater":{
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"type":[
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"geographical name"
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],
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"definitions":{
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"active volcano in southwestern Alaska on the Alaska Peninsula in":[
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"Aniakchak National Monument"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-n\u0113-\u02c8ak-\u02ccchak"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-104251"
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},
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"aniline salt":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": aniline hydrochloride":[
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"\u2014 used chiefly commercially"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1846, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-105359"
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},
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"anisodactylous":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": having unequal toes":[
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"\u2014 used especially of passerine and picarian birds having three toes turned forward and one backward"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u00a6dakt\u0259l\u0259s"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"anis- entry 1 + -dactylous":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1828, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-115104"
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},
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"anilingus":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": erotic stimulation achieved by contact between mouth and anus":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0101-ni-\u02c8li\u014b-g\u0259s"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"All of these could be signs that there\u2019s extra bacteria hanging out down there, which is definitely not ideal for anilingus . \u2014 Lindsey Lanquist, SELF , 12 Mar. 2018"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from anus + -i- + -lingus, -linctus (as in cunnilingus, cunnilinctus )":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1949, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-122311"
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},
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"anisogamete":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": heterogamete":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"-\u02c8ga\u02ccm\u0113t",
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"-g\u0259\u00a6m\u0113t"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"anis- entry 1 + gamete":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-123552"
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},
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"Aniba":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a genus of tropical American trees of the family Lauraceae with aromatic foliage, inconspicuous flowers, and succulent fruit, the seeds of some having tonic properties":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259\u02c8n\u012bb\u0259",
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"-\u0113b\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from New Latin, probably borrowed from an unidentified American Indian language":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1838, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-143228"
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},
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"anilino-":{
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"type":[
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"combining form"
|
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": containing the univalent radical C 6 H 5 NH 2":[
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"\u2014 derived from aniline anilino phenol C 6 H 5 NHC 6 H 4 OH"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-n\u0259",
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"\u00a6an\u1d4al\u00a6\u0113n\u014d"
|
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"International Scientific Vocabulary, from aniline + -o-":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-155919"
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},
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"Anisian":{
|
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": of, relating to, or being the earliest division of the Middle Triassic lasting from approximately 245 million years ago until 237 million years ago":[
|
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"However, vertebrate paleontological evidence, as yet unsupported by palynology, seems to show that some associated sediment of the Fundy Basin probably is even older than Ladinian, referable to the preceding Anisian Stage.",
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"\u2014 Alfred Traverse , Science , 12 June 1987"
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],
|
|
"\u2014 see Geologic Time Table":[
|
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"However, vertebrate paleontological evidence, as yet unsupported by palynology, seems to show that some associated sediment of the Fundy Basin probably is even older than Ladinian, referable to the preceding Anisian Stage.",
|
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"\u2014 Alfred Traverse , Science , 12 June 1987"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02c8n\u0113-",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8ni-zh(\u0113-)\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from German Anisisch (with -ian replacing German -isch ), derivative of Late Latin Anisus , ancient name of the river Enns (alluding to the type locality at Gross-Reifling, in the Enns Valley in Styria, Austria)":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1899, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-161826"
|
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},
|
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"anisotropy":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb",
|
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"noun",
|
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"noun,"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": exhibiting properties with different values when measured in different directions":[
|
|
"an anisotropic crystal"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cca-\u02ccn\u012b-s\u0259-\u02c8tr\u00e4-pik",
|
|
"(\u02cc)an-\u02cc\u012b-s\u0259-\u02c8tr\u00e4p-ik"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Games on 1080p TVs will also get anisotropic filtering and faster load times on the Xbox One X. And like the Xbox One S, Microsoft\u2019s new console also supports glorious high-dynamic range visuals. \u2014 Brad Chacos, PCWorld , 11 June 2017"
|
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"aniso- + -tropic , probably after German anisotropisch":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"1854, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-165052"
|
|
},
|
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"Anishinabe":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": ojibwa sense 1":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cc\u00e4-ni-shi-\u02c8n\u022f-b\u0101"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Ojibwa ani\u0161\u0161ina\u00b7pe\u00b7 (plural ani\u0161\u0161ina\u00b7pe\u00b7k ) Ojibwa, Indian":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1881, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-180408"
|
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},
|
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"anime":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a style of animation originating in Japan that is characterized by stark colorful graphics depicting vibrant characters in action-filled plots often with fantastic or futuristic themes":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8\u00e4-n\u0113-",
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The proliferation of anime alongside the rise in video games has also boosted cosplay's profile. \u2014 Andrew Liptak, The Week , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Put simply, it\u2019s one of the few examples of a popular anime actually amounting to something worthwhile and comes thoroughly recommended. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Easier than staying up for 24 extra minutes of anime . \u2014 Elyse Inamine, Bon App\u00e9tit , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"When a person tested positive for omicron after attending an anime convention in New York City late last year, health officials raced to determine if the indoor gathering was a superspreader event. \u2014 Mike Stobbe, ajc , 17 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Then a Minnesota resident reportedly tested positive for omicron after attending an anime convention in New York City, where more cases have been detected. \u2014 Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com , 15 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Some cases have been tied to an anime convention in New York City, where tens of thousands of fans gathered at the Javits Center in November. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 8 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Anime NYC is an annual three-day anime convention held in New York City. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 7 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Data from the anime convention could be particularly useful to understanding how the omicron variant will affect people in the United States. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Dec. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Japanese, animation, short for anim\u0113shiyon , from English":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1985, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-193811"
|
|
},
|
|
"Animikean":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of or relating to the series of Proterozoic rocks that underlies the Keweenawan":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259\u00a6nim\u0259\u00a6k\u0113\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from a Northwestern Ojibwe cognate of Minnesota Ojibwe animiiki \"thunderbird, thunderer\" (alluding to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior, Ontario)":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1873, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-194849"
|
|
},
|
|
"animatronics":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": technology dealing with animatronic animation":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8tr\u00e4-niks"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Jurassic Park was also your first time working with any type of special effects or animatronics . \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"The massive animatronics of the Dino & Dragon Stroll allow children to get up close to baby and adult dinosaurs. \u2014 Liliana Webb, Detroit Free Press , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"Gearheads with time on their hands came and, free of charge, restored animatronics that hadn\u2019t moved in 40 years. \u2014 Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Pricey props and animatronics simply aren\u2019t as spooky. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Initially the director tried out animatronics solutions but wasn\u2019t happy with them. \u2014 Martin Dale, Variety , 23 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The work involves the installation of animatronics , multiroom trains, outdoor lighting, and indoor snow. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 17 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Wan\u2019s team combined skilled physical performers, voice actor Ray Chase, animatronics , a stunt team and VFX. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"After 30 minutes of the ride being stopped, Rokos said the lights were turned on and the animatronics and audio were mostly turned off. \u2014 Ann W. Schmidt, Fox News , 3 Nov. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1971, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-201324"
|
|
},
|
|
"animikite":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a mineral consisting of a silver antimonide occurring in white or gray granular masses":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259\u02c8nim\u0259\u02cck\u012bt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"animiki- (borrowed from a Northwestern Ojibwe cognate of Minnesota Ojibwe animiiki \"thunderbird, thunderer\", alluding to Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, Ontario, near which it was discovered) + -ite entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1894, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-201525"
|
|
},
|
|
"anise plant":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an herb ( Seseli harveyanum ) that has an aroma like anise and that is found chiefly in Australia":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1894, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-203211"
|
|
},
|
|
"aniseroot":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": sweet chervil":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"so called from the taste and odor of its root":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1822, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-205813"
|
|
},
|
|
"animatronic":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of, relating to, or being a puppet or similar figure that is animated by means of electromechanical devices":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8tr\u00e4-nik"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"There\u2019s an audio- animatronic 19th-century man talking about technological progress in a bathtub! \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"With Dominion hitting theaters June 10, the cast reflected on the long, eventful shoot, from sharing scenes with animatronic dinosaurs to the perils of shooting in a pandemic. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"The film's saving grace in the humor department is Peter Sohn, a longtime Pixar animator and occasional voice actor, who is entrusted with the scene-stealing delight that is Sox, an animatronic cat that aids Buzz in his journey. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"Sometimes animatronic and growling, sometimes staring out dead-eyed, classic and static. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Some of the animatronic figures stand over 28 feet tall and 60 feet long. \u2014 John Coffren, Baltimore Sun , 2 June 2022",
|
|
"Beyond that dissonance, the animatronic heads on the trees were at odds tonally with the reverence expressed elsewhere. \u2014 Tom Teicholz, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
|
|
"The animatronic edition will set you back $90, and a smaller interactive version without the sensor is also available for $39. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
|
|
"The traveling animatronic dinosaur exhibit is stopping in multiple Oakland County locations this month. \u2014 Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press , 19 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"short for audio-animatronic":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1972, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-212734"
|
|
},
|
|
"anisey":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of, relating to, or resembling anise : having a smell or taste similar to that of fennel or licorice":[
|
|
"In the South of France the basil plants are bushy, with very small green leaves; these have a stronger, more anisey flavor than the larger leaf plants.",
|
|
"\u2014 Martha Rose Shulman , Gourmet Vegetarian Feasts , 1987",
|
|
"Whereas fennel is slightly anisey with a bitter note, cumin is penetratingly earthy with a sour overtone.",
|
|
"\u2014 Alice Arndt , Seasoning Savvy: How to Cook with Herbs, Spices, and Other Flavorings , 1999",
|
|
"We gnawed so much fennel that to this day I gag at a whiff of that anisey smell, even a pinch flavoring a stew.",
|
|
"\u2014 Steven Pressfield , Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae , 2005"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-s\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"anise + -y entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1968, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-212739"
|
|
},
|
|
"animism":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
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": a doctrine that the vital principle of organic development is immaterial spirit":[],
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": attribution of conscious life to objects in and phenomena of nature or to inanimate objects":[],
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": belief in the existence of spirits separable from bodies":[]
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},
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccmi-z\u0259m",
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"\u02c8an-\u0259-\u02ccmiz-\u0259m"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Lawson draws viewers in with her use of magical realism to illustrate the history and practices of animism \u2014 a belief system built around the idea that all animals, plants, places and inanimate objects have a soul \u2014 in African culture. \u2014 Addie Morfoot, Variety , 22 June 2022",
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"The label, riffing on motifs, iconography, animism and proverbs from across the African continent, was a way for Masekela to pick up the elder Masekela\u2019s mantle and stoke curiosity in the West. \u2014 Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 Apr. 2022",
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"When attempting to explain love (and later, death), Heti slips from her biblical register into a kind of animism . \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Feb. 2022",
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"Mountains in Korea are sacred places in animism and shamanism, whose traces can still be seen in Korean Seon Buddhism. \u2014 Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 31 Dec. 2021",
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"This is vintage Lockwood: animism , eroticism, and absurdity, equal parts surrealist subconscious and vernacular Americana, stretched to the limits of grammar. \u2014 Patrick Iber, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021",
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"This is vintage Lockwood: animism , eroticism, and absurdity, equal parts surrealist subconscious and vernacular Americana, stretched to the limits of grammar. \u2014 Patrick Iber, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021",
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"This is vintage Lockwood: animism , eroticism, and absurdity, equal parts surrealist subconscious and vernacular Americana, stretched to the limits of grammar. \u2014 Patrick Iber, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021",
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"This is vintage Lockwood: animism , eroticism, and absurdity, equal parts surrealist subconscious and vernacular Americana, stretched to the limits of grammar. \u2014 Patrick Iber, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021"
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"German Animismus , from Latin anima soul":""
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"1832, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-214110"
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"animal bipes implume":{
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"type":[
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"Latin translation from Plato"
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"definitions":{
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": two-legged animal without feathers (i.e., the human race)":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8\u00e4-ni-\u02ccm\u00e4l-\u02ccbi-\u02ccp\u0101s-im-\u02c8pl\u00fc-me"
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],
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-214317"
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},
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"anisette":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a usually colorless sweet liqueur flavored with aniseed":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8zet",
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8set"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"My only strong piece of advice is to use real absinthe, and not try to cheat it with anisette or something\u2014yes, absinthe is expensive, but one bottle will make several hundred cocktails. \u2014 Jason O'bryan, Robb Report , 7 Oct. 2021",
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"The flavors include black lava sea salt, anisette and cinnamon clove. \u2014 Christina Vercelletto, CNN Underscored , 10 Nov. 2020",
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"The flavors include black lava sea salt, anisette and cinnamon clove. \u2014 Christina Vercelletto, CNN Underscored , 10 Nov. 2020",
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"And then another, sometimes with a miniature of anisette . \u2014 Rafael Alvarez, CNN , 27 Dec. 2020",
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"The flavors include black lava sea salt, anisette and cinnamon clove. \u2014 Christina Vercelletto, CNN Underscored , 10 Nov. 2020",
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"The flavors include black lava sea salt, anisette and cinnamon clove. \u2014 Christina Vercelletto, CNN Underscored , 10 Nov. 2020",
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"The flavors include black lava sea salt, anisette and cinnamon clove. \u2014 Christina Vercelletto, CNN Underscored , 10 Nov. 2020",
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"The flavors include black lava sea salt, anisette and cinnamon clove. \u2014 Christina Vercelletto, CNN Underscored , 10 Nov. 2020"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French, from anis":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1795, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-222303"
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},
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"animatron":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a puppet or similar figure that is animated by means of electromechanical devices : an animatronic figure":[
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"In Jurassic Park, the Steven Spielberg dinosaur action thriller, the full-sized animatron of the Tyrannosaurus Rex weighed almost 7000 kilograms.",
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"\u2014 Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia) , 5 Nov. 2002"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02cctr\u00e4n"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"short for audio-animatron , back-formation from audio-animatronic":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1971, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-232748"
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},
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"animis opibusque parati":{
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"type":[
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"Latin phrase"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": prepared in minds and resources":[
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"\u2014 a motto of South Carolina"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8\u00e4-ni-\u02ccm\u0113s-\u02cc\u022f-pi-\u02c8bu\u0307s-kwe-p\u00e4-\u02c8r\u00e4-t\u0113"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-000408"
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},
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"animator":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": one that animates":[
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"prime animator of the movement"
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],
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": an artist who is involved in creating animated cartoons":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101-t\u0259r"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In the studio\u2019s tradition of enlisting members of its creative team to do voice work, Sox is voiced by animator Peter Sohn. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
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"Robert Lurye, a friend and animator for visual effects studio Rhythm & Hues Studios, put together a few before the creators all decided the baby was the most eye-catching. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 9 May 2022",
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"Jared Allen, animator , artist, and recent graduate from The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). \u2014 Jennifer Maas, Variety , 27 Apr. 2022",
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"Sean McRae, a Black animator , illustrator and composer on the autism spectrum, can dream up an entire creative concept one night, compose music to it the next morning and sketch out visuals later that same day. \u2014 Heran Mamo, Billboard , 1 Apr. 2022",
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"Author, animator , and friend of Juster\u2019s, Mo Willems, posted about his death on Twitter. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 9 Mar. 2021",
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"The book\u2019s lively artwork \u2014 THR shares interior pages below \u2014 was created by 3D animator Julian Glander, whose art has appeared in projects for Disney, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. \u2014 Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 May 2022",
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"The Kingship team has grown to include recording artists, songwriters and producers, celebrity animator Jack Lanza and NFT collector Jimmy McNelis. \u2014 Thania Garcia, Variety , 10 May 2022",
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"From March 26 to April 10, the museum\u2019s website will stream films by Japanese animator Satoshi Kon and a documentary about Kon\u2019s life. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Mar. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-003055"
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},
|
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"animated cartoon":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a motion picture that is made from a series of drawings, computer graphics, or photographs of inanimate objects (such as puppets) and that simulates movement by slight progressive changes in each frame":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"To the narcissist, all other people are cardboard cutouts, two-dimensional animated cartoon characters, or symbols. \u2014 Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day , 14 June 2022",
|
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"Like the animated cartoon character of the same name, Lisa Simpson arrived on the scene in 1980s. \u2014 Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com , 8 June 2021",
|
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"The creator of the Nyan Cat meme, which features an animated cartoon cat with a Pop-Tart for a torso, sold an non-fungible token for 300 ether last month, equivalent to nearly $600,000 at the time of sale. \u2014 Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ , 8 Mar. 2021",
|
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"In far-ranging classroom discussions, Dr. Macksey was likely to quote from Greek poetry (in the original Greek, of course) and, on another day, to discuss the animated cartoons of Chuck Jones. \u2014 Matt Schudel, Washington Post , 26 July 2019",
|
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"To the disappointment of many OG Disney viewers, the first wave of Disney+ releases was missing a few key series from the Disney Channel, namely the two-season animated cartoon The Proud Family. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 7 Jan. 2020",
|
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"The nine-minute video features photographs and videos of UCSD, but is mostly an animated cartoon that was produced by the California State University system. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 Oct. 2019",
|
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"The soundtrack from an animated cartoon was blaring. \u2014 Elliott Hester, Los Angeles Times , 1 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"The soundtrack from an animated cartoon was blaring. \u2014 Elliott Hester, Los Angeles Times , 1 Aug. 2019"
|
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-010659"
|
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},
|
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"animatograph":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": an early form of motion-picture projector":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccan\u0259\u02c8mat\u0259\u02ccgraf"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"animate entry 2 + -ograph (as in cinematograph )":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1894, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-010940"
|
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},
|
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"animated oat":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an oat grass ( Avena sterilis ) marked by movements of the spikelets caused by twisting of the awns through changes in moisture":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1799, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-012917"
|
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},
|
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"animateur":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": someone who leads and encourages participation in a particular activity and especially in a cultural or artistic activity":[
|
|
"Like other animateurs , he juggles several projects at once: last year \u2026 he was working with youth groups preparing a children's opera \u2026 at the same time, he was working with the \u2026 Community Choir as well as leading other school projects.",
|
|
"\u2014 Edward Marriott , Music Magazine , 1 Feb. 2004"
|
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]
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca-n\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8t\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from French, from animer \"to animate entry 2 \" + -ateur -ator":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1950, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-013148"
|
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},
|
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"animates":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb",
|
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"noun",
|
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"verb"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": possessing or characterized by life : alive":[],
|
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": full of life : animated":[],
|
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": of or relating to animal life as opposed to plant life":[],
|
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": referring to a living thing":[
|
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"an animate noun"
|
|
],
|
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": to give spirit and support to : encourage":[],
|
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": to give life to":[],
|
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": to give vigor and zest to":[],
|
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": to move to action":[
|
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"a criminal animated by greed"
|
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],
|
|
": to make or design in such a way as to create apparently spontaneous lifelike movement":[
|
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"animate a cartoon"
|
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],
|
|
": to produce in the form of an animated cartoon":[
|
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"animate a story"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8a-n\u0259-m\u0259t",
|
|
"\u02c8an-\u0259-m\u0259t",
|
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"\u02c8a-n\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101t"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"active",
|
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"airy",
|
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"animated",
|
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"bouncing",
|
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"brisk",
|
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"energetic",
|
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"frisky",
|
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"gay",
|
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"jaunty",
|
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"jazzy",
|
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"kinetic",
|
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"lively",
|
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"mettlesome",
|
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"peppy",
|
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"perky",
|
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"pert",
|
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"pizzazzy",
|
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"pizazzy",
|
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"racy",
|
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"snappy",
|
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"spanking",
|
|
"sparky",
|
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"spirited",
|
|
"sprightly",
|
|
"springy",
|
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"vital",
|
|
"vivacious",
|
|
"zippy"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
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"amp (up)",
|
|
"brace",
|
|
"energize",
|
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"enliven",
|
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"fillip",
|
|
"fire",
|
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"ginger (up)",
|
|
"invigorate",
|
|
"jazz (up)",
|
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"juice up",
|
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"jump-start",
|
|
"liven (up)",
|
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"pep (up)",
|
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"quicken",
|
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"spike",
|
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"stimulate",
|
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"vitalize",
|
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"vivify",
|
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"zip (up)"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for animate Verb quicken , animate , enliven , vivify mean to make alive or lively. quicken stresses a sudden renewal of life or activity especially in something inert. the arrival of spring quickens the earth animate emphasizes the imparting of motion or vitality to what is or might be mechanical or artificial. happiness animated his conversation enliven suggests a stimulus that arouses from dullness or torpidity. enlivened her lectures with humorous anecdotes vivify implies a freshening or energizing through renewal of vitality. new blood needed to vivify the dying club",
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
|
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"The lecture was about ancient worship of animate and inanimate objects.",
|
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"an animate dance routine that will really get the blood pumping",
|
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"Verb",
|
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"The writer's humor animates the novel.",
|
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"The film's very realistic dinosaurs were animated on computers.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
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"As such, they should be treated as \u2018 animate tools,\u2019 instruments rather than ends. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
|
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"Science is a process, not an animate object that speaks. \u2014 Michael Lynch, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Creativity, making, and imagining animate Black self-determination with that which only culture can provide. \u2014 ELLE , 31 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Drawing animate objects was forbidden, as on the day of judgment, God would ask me to put life in them. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 28 Mar. 2022",
|
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"At one point, Atung abruptly drops out of the show, eliminating its only source of interpersonal intrigue and allowing Afong to complete her transformation into an animate textbook. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
|
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"This time the town is not empty but crowded with animate memories. \u2014 Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books , 19 Nov. 2020",
|
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"Ethics begins by recognizing that entities of this Earth are both material and animate . \u2014 Kathleen Dean Moore, The Conversation , 20 Oct. 2021",
|
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"This time the town is not empty but crowded with animate memories. \u2014 Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books , 19 Nov. 2020",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
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"The kind of people who animate our communities, enrich them with color and spice and energy, and make our municipal sidewalks spring to life. \u2014 Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com , 8 July 2022",
|
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"The dichotomy is a stunning example of how to animate the psyche. \u2014 Holly Jones, Variety , 15 June 2022",
|
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"Professor Merriman spent nearly all his teaching career at Yale, a rumpled figure who used his storytelling gifts to animate his lectures on French and European history. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
|
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"But whether the latest cut will help animate people to spend money anytime soon amid the uncertainty over the war is another matter. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 2 May 2022",
|
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"Rather, it was meant to animate the engravings as a form of Paleolithic entertainment. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Rasmussen decided to animate the story as a way of making his friend feel safe enough to speak his truth. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 20 Mar. 2022",
|
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"An Intricate shutter design, a cozy pile of purple floral pillows, and a golden damask-print coverlet animate this bedroom designed by Kristin Hein and Philip Cozi. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 23 June 2022",
|
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"With Trump exiting the White House, Fox needed a dominating personality to animate its news and talk shows. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022"
|
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English, from Latin animatus , past participle of animare to give life to, from anima breath, soul; akin to Old English \u014dthian to breathe, Latin animus spirit, Greek anemos wind, Sanskrit aniti he breathes":"Adjective and Verb"
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-014759"
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},
|
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"animatic":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a preliminary sequence of shots, images, or sketches (as for a movie or an animated television program) that is filmed or arranged usually with a sound track and viewed to determine its effectiveness before being finalized":[
|
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"The final step before the material gets sent across the Pacific Ocean is an animatic of the episode, a filming of the layout drawings that gives a rudimentary sense of how the show will move. There's no color and the movements are, at best, jerky, but the animatic gives the producers a chance to see how the drawings and voices work together.",
|
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"\u2014 Joe Rhodes , Entertainment Weekly , 18 May 1990"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cca-n\u0259-\u02c8ma-tik"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"probably blend of animated and schematic entry 2":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1977, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-023506"
|
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},
|
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"animato":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adverb or adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": with animation":[
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"\u2014 used as a direction in music"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u00e4-n\u0259-\u02c8m\u00e4-(\u02cc)t\u014d",
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"\u02cca-"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Italian, from Latin animatus":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1724, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-024033"
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}
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} |