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104 lines
3.4 KiB
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{
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"zephyr":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a breeze from the west":[],
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": a gentle breeze":[],
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": any of various lightweight fabrics and articles of clothing":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"a summer zephyr gently stirred her hair",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Not some Paris-in-the-springtime zephyr , but something better suited to wintertime and the coast of Brittany. \u2014 Christopher Clarey, New York Times , 7 June 2019",
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"The movements were more scene setting than story telling, with wafting, zephyr -like patterns from piano, the themes eliding wind to string voices in a delicate and tricky texture. \u2014 By Libby Hanssen, kansascity , 16 July 2017",
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"Windsurfers lean into the prevailing southwestern zephyr at incredible speeds. \u2014 Dino Vournas, The Mercury News , 21 May 2017",
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"What lingers from this alien encounter is neither the wizardry nor the climax but the zephyr of emotional intensity that blows through the film. \u2014 Adam Davidson, The New Yorker , 24 Jan. 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1567, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English Zephirus , west wind (personified), from Latin Zephyrus , god of the west wind & zephyrus west wind, zephyr, from Greek Zephyros & zephyros":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ze-f\u0259r"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"air",
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"breath",
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"breeze",
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"puff",
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"waft"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202758",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"zeppole":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a doughnut made from cream puff dough":[]
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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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"Italian zeppole , plural of zeppola fritter, from Italian dialect (southern Italy), perhaps from Late Latin zippulae , a kind of sweet; zeppoli from It, plural of zeppolo , alteration of zeppola":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(t)se(p)\u02c8p\u014d(\u02cc)l\u0101",
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"ze-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114850",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"zepto-":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": one sextillionth (10 \u221221 ) part of":[
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"zepto second"
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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, probably alteration of hepta- ; from the fact that 10 21 is the seventh power of 10 3":""
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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":"20220707-194554",
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"type":[
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"combining form"
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]
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},
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"zeptosecond":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": one sextillionth of a second":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The ultra-quick journey took 247 zeptoseconds, according to a team of German researchers, with a zeptosecond representing a trillionth of a billionth of a second. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Oct. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1994, 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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"\u02c8zep-t\u0259-\u02ccse-k\u0259nd",
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"-k\u0259nt"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190632",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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}
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} |