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100 lines
3.8 KiB
JSON
{
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"anvil":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering)":[],
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": incus":[],
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": the anvil\u2013shaped top of a cumulonimbus":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Telling the board of directors about my mental health and hearing their compassionate response lifted an anvil of anxiety off my chest and loosened the noose of shame around my neck. \u2014 Andy Dunn As Told To Marty Munson, Men's Health , 10 May 2022",
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"The news of 2022 is like an anvil weighing down on our collective psyche. \u2014 Longreads , 13 Mar. 2020",
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"That parks the anvil of responsibility squarely on the shoulders of those with the most money in the game who tossed locks on the gates. \u2014 Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 Mar. 2022",
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"That anvil of debt often weighs borrowers down for years, forcing them to postpone plans to buy a home, start a business or even have children, King said. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 22 Mar. 2022",
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"But starting in elementary school Gorman began to teach herself to grasp, form and wield words just as a blacksmith brings heat, an anvil , and a hammer to iron. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Dec. 2021",
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"Night falls like an anvil at Castle Hot Springs, which limits guests to about 50. \u2014 Lauren Mechling, Vogue , 4 Mar. 2022",
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"Besides the whole potential hospitalization and death thing, there\u2019s also the risk of long Covid, which can be about as fun as trying to shove an anvil up your nose. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 30 Jan. 2022",
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"Gliding along, singing its song, the R1T feels strangely light and heavy, like an aluminum anvil . \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 9 Dec. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English anfeld, anefelt, anvelt, anvyll, going back to Old English anfealt and anefilt, anelfilte, going back to Germanic *ana-falta- and *ana-feltja- (whence also, from the first, Old High German anafalz \"anvil\" and from the second, Middle Dutch aenvilte, anevilte ), from *ana- \"on\" and *-falta-, *-feltja-, nominal derivatives from *faltan-, taken to mean \"to strike, beat\" \u2014 more at felt entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8an-v\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124158",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"anvil bat":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": epauletted bat":[]
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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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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-090222"
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},
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"anvil block":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the anvil for a power hammer":[]
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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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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174628"
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},
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"anvil chisel":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": hardie":[]
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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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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203657"
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},
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"anvil cloud":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the anvil-shaped top of a cumulonimbus":[]
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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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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233930"
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}
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} |