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306 lines
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{
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"Diksmuide":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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"town in the western Belgium province of West Flanders north of Ieper population 15,480":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"dik-\u02c8sm\u012b-d\u0259"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070100",
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"type":[
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"geographical name"
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]
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},
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"dike":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a bank (see bank entry 1 sense 1 ) usually of earth constructed to control or confine water : levee":[],
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": a barrier preventing passage especially of something undesirable":[],
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": a raised causeway":[],
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": a tabular body of igneous rock that has been injected while molten into a fissure":[],
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": an artificial watercourse : ditch":[],
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": lesbian":[],
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": to drain by a dike":[],
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": to surround or protect with a dike (see dike entry 1 )":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"In addition to the hundreds of thousands of acres of marshland that were drained or diked off, the researchers discovered former wetlands that now are forested that were unknown to anybody. \u2014 Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com , 17 Aug. 2019",
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"Ed Musial blames a series of finger dikes the state installed in the 1980s for channeling the river past their homes. \u2014 Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News , 30 June 2019",
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"The southern banks along Svensen Slough, a side channel of the Columbia River, have transformed over time from historic spruce swamp into fields diked off by European settlers for farming. \u2014 Edward Stratton, The Christian Science Monitor , 2 Apr. 2018",
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"Aerial photos show portions of the land \u2013 diked and drained for agriculture by the 1930s and cut in half by US Highway 30 by the 1970s \u2013 slowly returning to wetlands as levees broke down and breached. \u2014 Edward Stratton, The Christian Science Monitor , 2 Apr. 2018",
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"The tank area is believed to be diked and lined to contain spilled fuel. \u2014 Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Mar. 2018",
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"That was before humans drained and diked estuaries to build cities, grow crops, and make salt. \u2014 National Geographic , 13 June 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"14th 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, probably from Old Norse d\u012bk ditch and Middle Low German d\u012bk dam; akin to Old English d\u012bc ditch \u2014 more at ditch":"Noun and Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8d\u012bk"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"dam",
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"embankment",
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"head",
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"levee"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091043",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"noun,",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"dike ridge":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a hogback in which the formation resistant to erosion is a dike":[],
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": a small wall-like ridge on a glacier resulting from differences in the rate of melting":[],
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": any small wall-like ridge (such as one along a shore) resulting from differences in the rate of erosion":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181746",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"dike-louper":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": one that jumps fences":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"dike entry 1 + English dialect louper leaper, from English dialect loup to leap + English -er":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-l\u00fcp-",
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"-l\u014dp-",
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"\u02c8d\u012b\u02cckl\u0259u\u0307p\u0259(r)"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115518",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"dikereeve":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an English official in charge of the drains, sluices, and sea walls in a district of fen or marshy land":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"perhaps alteration (influenced by English reeve ) of dikegrave (official)":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185859",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"dikerion":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a two-branched candlestick symbolizing the divine and human natures in Christ used by the bishop for blessing during the service \u2014 compare trikerion":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Greek dik\u0113rion , from Greek di + Late Greek k\u0113rion wax candle, from Greek, honeycomb, from k\u0113ros wax":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"t\u035fh\u0113\u02c8k\u0113ry\u022fn"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041150",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"diketene":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an unsaturated pungent liquid lactone C 4 H 4 O 2 made by spontaneous dimerization of ketene in solution and used chiefly in making derivatives of acetoacetic acid":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"di- + ketene":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u02c8)d\u012b+"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023846",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"diketo-":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": containing two ketone groups":[
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"\u2014 in names of chemical compounds diketo adipic acid"
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],
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"\u2014 compare ket-":[
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"\u2014 in names of chemical compounds diketo adipic acid"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"International Scientific Vocabulary di- + ket-":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203145",
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"type":[
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"combining form"
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]
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},
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"dikkop":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": stone curlew":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Afrikaans, from dik thick (from Dutch, from Middle Dutch dicke ) + kop head, from Dutch, from Middle Dutch cop, coppe drinking vessel, skull; akin to Old High German dicki thick":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8di\u02cck\u00e4p"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233730",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"diktat":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a harsh settlement unilaterally imposed (as on a defeated nation)":[],
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": decree , order":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"The company president issued a diktat that employees may not wear jeans to work.",
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"a democratic government has to be something wanted by that nation's citizens and not something created by a foreign power's diktat",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In Spain, even though AVMS has not been fully implemented, there is a sense that streamers are relenting on their all-rights diktat . \u2014 Nick Vivarelli, Variety , 2 Apr. 2022",
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"Bowser is far from the first official to apparently flout her own pandemic diktat , and each new story like this invites public revolt. \u2014 Bonnie Kristian, The Week , 2 Aug. 2021",
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"Nothing brings Chinatown together quite like the sense that the city\u2019s leaders are governing by diktat . \u2014 Esther Wang, Curbed , 17 Dec. 2021",
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"This would permit a very direct route to dictatorship: amend it so that any diktat of the President is automatically an amendment. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 26 Nov. 2021",
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"In contrast to Kering's company-wide diktat , its larger rival LVMH is leaving the decision up to each individual brand's creative director. \u2014 Phil Wahba, Fortune , 24 Sep. 2021",
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"The latest evidence is the 5-4 ruling late Friday slapping down another California pandemic diktat on the freedom of worship. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 11 Apr. 2021",
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"Officials from Britain, Germany, Italy, and France have complained that despite Biden\u2019s promises of consultation, there has been more diktat than conversation on Afghanistan. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 Aug. 2021",
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"As Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal has noted, the state bans are a reaction to an educational diktat that race be the central topic of class discussions. \u2014 Daniel J. Samet, National Review , 4 July 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1933, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from German Diktat \"imposition, command,\" borrowed from Medieval Latin dict\u0101tum \u2014 more at dictate entry 2":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"dik-\u02c8t\u00e4t"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bull",
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"decree",
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"directive",
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"edict",
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"fiat",
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"rescript",
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"ruling",
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"ukase"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092006",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"dika":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": wild mango":[],
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": the fruit or seed of the African wild mango":[],
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": dika bread":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8d\u0113k\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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"Mpongwe odika , a condiment, probably dika bread":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211635"
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},
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"dika bread":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a somewhat acid and astringent paste that is prepared by grinding and heating the seeds of the African wild mango usually together with pepper and other spices and that is a staple food of some African peoples":[]
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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":"20220708-234102"
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},
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"dikage":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the digging of dikes":[]
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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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"dike , verb + -age":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-065007"
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}
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} |