dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/gab_MW.json
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{
"GABA":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"gamma-aminobutyric acid":[]
},
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"abbreviation",
"noun or abbreviation"
]
},
"Gabar":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a Zoroastrian of Iran \u2014 compare parsi":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Persian, from Arabic k\u0101fir unbeliever":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8g\u00e4b\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"noun"
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"backchat",
"cackle",
"causerie",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin music",
"chin-wag",
"chitchat",
"confab",
"confabulation",
"gabfest",
"gossip",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"rap",
"schmooze",
"small talk",
"table talk",
"talk",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate"
],
"definitions":{
": gabardine sense 2":[],
": to talk in a rapid or thoughtless manner : chatter":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"spent the time she should have been working gabbing with friends instead"
],
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"1761, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1786, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1939, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"by shortening":"Noun",
"derivative of gab entry 1":"Noun",
"of uncertain origin":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8gab"
],
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"babble",
"blab",
"cackle",
"chaffer",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin",
"converse",
"gabble",
"gas",
"jabber",
"jaw",
"kibitz",
"kibbitz",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"prate",
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"rattle",
"run on",
"schmooze",
"shmooze",
"talk",
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"visit"
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"type":[
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"verb"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193539",
"type":[
"noun"
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"gabardine":{
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": a firm hard-finish durable fabric (as of wool or rayon) twilled with diagonal ribs on the right side":[],
": a garment of gabardine":[],
": gaberdine sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[
"a jacket made of gabardine",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This tweed and gabardine trench melds to the body and feels like a fresh take on your go-to trench. \u2014 Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR , 27 June 2022",
"In Milan and Paris, moderate temps allowed for showcasing spring looks in their purest form\u2014knitwear with open-toed shoes, blazers with bare legs, and best of all, spring jackets in every fabric from tweed to gabardine . \u2014 Madeline Fass, Vogue , 31 Mar. 2022",
"That almost Rousseauian ideal came through via relaxed silhouettes, like a patchwork trench, an oversize car coat cut in soft fawn and deep fern green gabardine , and wide-leg trousers split at the seams. \u2014 Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR , 10 Jan. 2022",
"The actor, who is also styled by Roach, went for a classic look in a custom Prada silk gabardine suit with a white poplin shirt and black re-nylon tie. \u2014 Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com , 14 Dec. 2021",
"The gabardine -like dash-and door accents, the pica-thin metal accents. \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 21 Oct. 2021",
"She was joined by her long-time boyfriend Cordae, who rocked a khaki-colored gabardine trench coat by Coach. \u2014 Jasmine Washington, Seventeen , 14 Sep. 2021",
"The double gabardine trench elongates with the detail of embroidery. \u2014 Allyson Portee, Forbes , 7 July 2021",
"The first New York location shows off the coastal range with surfboards and sand dunes playing background to playful gabardine beachwear. \u2014 Sarah Spellings, Vogue , 4 June 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1520, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"spelling variant of gaberdine":""
},
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"\u02c8ga-b\u0259r-\u02ccd\u0113n"
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"gabarit":{
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": an outline on a drawing of a stationary object showing the space that must be kept clear for necessary access to it":[],
": an outline on a drawing of an object (as a machine part) intended to move showing the space necessary to permit its motion":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Proven\u00e7al gabarrit ship's model, blend of gabarro ship (from Old Proven\u00e7al gabarra , probably modification of Late Latin carabus boat resembling a coracle) and garbi ship's model, form, of Germanic origin; perhaps akin to Old High German garawen to prepare":""
},
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"\u00a6gab\u0259\u00a6r\u0113"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
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"gabbai":{
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"definitions":{
": a collector of charitable gifts or of taxes among the Jews in talmudic times":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hebrew gabbay collector, treasurer":""
},
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"g\u00e4\u02c8b\u012b"
],
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"type":[
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"gabbard":{
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": a small ship (as a lighter or barge) formerly much used in inland navigation in Scotland":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"modification (influenced by -ard, -art ) of Middle French gabarre, gabbarre ship, from Old Proven\u00e7al gabarra":""
},
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"\u02c8gab\u0259rd"
],
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"noun"
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"gabble":{
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": to say with incoherent rapidity : babble":[],
": to talk fast or foolishly : jabber":[],
": to utter inarticulate or animal sounds":[]
},
"examples":[
"heard her parents' guests still gabbling in the living room late into the night",
"during the filming of the party scene the extras were told to just gabble and act like they were having a great time"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1577, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably of imitative origin":""
},
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"\u02c8ga-b\u0259l"
],
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"chaffer",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin",
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"gab",
"gas",
"jabber",
"jaw",
"kibitz",
"kibbitz",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"prate",
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"rap",
"rattle",
"run on",
"schmooze",
"shmooze",
"talk",
"twitter",
"visit"
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"verb"
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"gabble ratchet":{
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"Definition of gabble ratchet variant of gabriel ratchet"
],
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gab\u0259l\u02ccrach\u0259\u0307t"
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"type":[]
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"-b\u0259lm\u0259nt"
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": to say with incoherent rapidity : babble":[],
": to talk fast or foolishly : jabber":[],
": to utter inarticulate or animal sounds":[]
},
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"heard her parents' guests still gabbling in the living room late into the night",
"during the filming of the party scene the extras were told to just gabble and act like they were having a great time"
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"1577, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
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"probably of imitative origin":""
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"\u02c8ga-b\u0259l"
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"chat",
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"chin",
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"gab",
"gas",
"jabber",
"jaw",
"kibitz",
"kibbitz",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"prate",
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"rap",
"rattle",
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"shmooze",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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"gabbro":{
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": a granular igneous rock composed essentially of calcic plagioclase, a ferromagnesian mineral, and accessory minerals":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Not getting a sample of this gabbro was frustrating, but scientists are already extracting valuable lessons from the momentary failure. \u2014 Robin George Andrews, Scientific American , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Basalt and gabbro rocks, for example, have tiny defects in their crystals that could release electrical charges into the air. \u2014 Christina Nunez, National Geographic , 16 Apr. 2019",
"Basalt and gabbro rocks, for example, have tiny defects in their crystals that could release electrical charges into the air. \u2014 Christina Nunez, National Geographic , 16 Apr. 2019",
"The rise itself is a large plateau about the size of California that contains 2,500,000 cubic kilometers of most basalt and gabbro (the stuff of oceanic crust). \u2014 Erik Klemetti, WIRED , 6 Sep. 2013"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1776, in the meaning defined above":""
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"borrowed from Italian (Tuscan), perhaps going back to Vulgar Latin *gabrum , altered from Latin glabr-, glaber \"hairless, smooth\" \u2014 more at glad entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8ga-(\u02cc)br\u014d"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111955",
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"noun"
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": resembling gabbro":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"gabbro + -oid":""
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"\u02c8ga\u02ccbr\u022fid"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192329",
"type":[
"adjective"
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"gabby":{
"antonyms":[
"closemouthed",
"laconic",
"reserved",
"reticent",
"taciturn",
"tight-lipped",
"uncommunicative"
],
"definitions":{
": talkative , garrulous":[]
},
"examples":[
"a gabby talk show host",
"a gabby talk-show host whose interviews were almost as much about herself as about her guests",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The most tense sequence in El Camino depends on the gabby old kook from down the hall ever-so-slowly watering plants with a plastic spray bottle. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 11 Oct. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1719, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"gab entry 1 + -y entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8ga-b\u0113"
],
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"blabby",
"chatty",
"conversational",
"garrulous",
"loquacious",
"motormouthed",
"mouthy",
"talkative",
"talky"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001603",
"type":[
"adjective"
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"gabfest":{
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"definitions":{
": an extended conversation":[],
": an informal gathering for general talk":[
"political gabfests"
]
},
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"the slumber party was an all-night gabfest filled with gossip, giggling, and whispered secrets",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Now comes the hard part: hosting a global gabfest , without the toxicity. \u2014 Steven Levy, Wired , 17 Mar. 2021",
"Third quarter, here\u2019s Bob Myers dropping into the TV gabfest . \u2014 Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com , 12 Dec. 2020",
"Calls can last for up to 24 hours (quite the gabfest ), and are encrypted and password-protected. \u2014 Adam Lashinsky, Fortune , 6 July 2020",
"But there are only so many airings of marbles races, old games and gabfests about the April 23\u201325 NFL draft\u2014an event that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, feels as significant as a speck of sand\u2014that viewers can take. \u2014 Sean Gregory, Time , 14 Apr. 2020",
"What was supposed to be his roommate interview became a gabfest . \u2014 Joanne Kaufman, New York Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"The tone at this annual gabfest in the Alps was set with a downbeat forecast on Tuesday from the International Monetary Fund. \u2014 Stephen Fidler, WSJ , 23 Jan. 2019",
"The White House is certainly equipped for secure calling, and hopefully Trump followed protocols such that his late-night gabfests with Kim Jong Un happen on a secure line and can focus on friendship and fun. \u2014 Lily Hay Newman, WIRED , 15 June 2018",
"The off-the-wall gabfest , which normally tapes in New York and plays to an audience of roughly 30 people, has invaded Los Angeles for a week of shows. \u2014 Yvonne Villarreal, latimes.com , 9 Apr. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1895, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"gab entry 1 + fest":""
},
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"\u02c8gab-\u02ccfest"
],
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"cackle",
"causerie",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin music",
"chin-wag",
"chitchat",
"confab",
"confabulation",
"gab",
"gossip",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"rap",
"schmooze",
"small talk",
"table talk",
"talk",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214807",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gaby":{
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"definitions":{
": simpleton":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1746, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"of obscure origin":""
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"\u02c8g\u0101-b\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202338",
"type":[
"noun"
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"Gabon Estuary":{
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"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"inlet of the Atlantic in northwestern Gabon":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-234843"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": spittoon":[]
},
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"g\u0259-",
"g\u00e4-\u02c8b\u00fcn"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"variant of goboon , from gob entry 1 + -oon (in spittoon )":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1929, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-050250"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name",
"noun"
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": the vertical triangular end of a building from cornice or eaves to ridge":[],
": the similar end of a gambrel roof":[],
": the end wall of a building":[],
": a triangular part or structure":[],
"(William) Clark 1901\u20131960 American actor":[]
},
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"\u02c8g\u0101-b\u0259l"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Floor-to-ceiling screens and a louvered gable let more sun pour in. \u2014 Grace Haynes, Southern Living , 25 Apr. 2020",
"Wochit With its wide shingled body, its base made of stone and a dozen roof gables , this handsome house looks like it was lifted from the Nantucket seashore. \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 28 Mar. 2020",
"The home\u2019s dozens of gables , stone chimneys, and pinnacles suggest a small English village. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Feb. 2020",
"The home\u2019s dozens of gables , stone chimneys and pinnacles suggest a small English village. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Feb. 2020",
"The rebuilt roof\u2019s dormers and gables give quirky angles to some rooms, and its original arched windows are now double-pane insulated. \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 30 Nov. 2019",
"Its front face blends traditional styles \u2014 the shingle cladding of Nantucket, the pillars of classical Greece, the gables and dormers of Tudor. \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 25 Jan. 2020",
"The facade used on TV is blah, a collection of nonsensical gables fronting the road, and the back aims for a faux-Cape Cod look, all cedar shingles and white trim applied to a rambling collection of rooms. \u2014 Alexandra Lange, Curbed , 1 Aug. 2019",
"At the Mason Street Townhouses, Richard Cawley\u2019s art has butterflies springing from a metal frame and sprays of cherry blossoms coming from the buildings\u2019 gables . \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Sep. 2019"
],
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"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Latin gabulus, gabulum \"gibbet\" (borrowed from Celtic *gablo- \"fork,\" whence Old Irish gabul \"fork, gibbet, groin,\" Welsh gafl \"fork, groin\"), perhaps influenced in sense by northern Middle English and Scots gavel \"triangular end of a building,\" borrowed from Old Norse gafl":""
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072813"
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"geographical name"
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"definitions":{
"country of western Africa on the Atlantic and bisected by the Equator; formerly a territory of French Equatorial Africa, since 1958 a republic; capital Libreville area 103,347 square miles (267,667 square kilometers), population 2,119,000":[]
},
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"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": furnished with gabions":[]
},
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"\u02c8g\u0101b\u0113\u0259nd"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-091912"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a work of fortification thrown up with gabions":[],
": a structure of gabions sunk in lines as a core for a sandbar in harbor improvements":[]
},
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"-n\u00e4d",
"\u00a6g\u0101b\u0113\u0259\u00a6n\u0101d"
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"French gabionnade , from Middle French, from Old Italian gabbionata , from gabbione gabion + -ata -ade":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-142755"
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"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Naum 1890\u20131977 originally":[
"Naum Pevsner \\ \u02c8pevz-\u200bn\u0259r \\"
],
"American (Russian-born) sculptor":[
"Naum Pevsner \\ \u02c8pevz-\u200bn\u0259r \\"
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": the similar end of a gambrel roof":[],
": the end wall of a building":[],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Floor-to-ceiling screens and a louvered gable let more sun pour in. \u2014 Grace Haynes, Southern Living , 25 Apr. 2020",
"Wochit With its wide shingled body, its base made of stone and a dozen roof gables , this handsome house looks like it was lifted from the Nantucket seashore. \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 28 Mar. 2020",
"The home\u2019s dozens of gables , stone chimneys, and pinnacles suggest a small English village. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Feb. 2020",
"The home\u2019s dozens of gables , stone chimneys and pinnacles suggest a small English village. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Feb. 2020",
"The rebuilt roof\u2019s dormers and gables give quirky angles to some rooms, and its original arched windows are now double-pane insulated. \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 30 Nov. 2019",
"Its front face blends traditional styles \u2014 the shingle cladding of Nantucket, the pillars of classical Greece, the gables and dormers of Tudor. \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 25 Jan. 2020",
"The facade used on TV is blah, a collection of nonsensical gables fronting the road, and the back aims for a faux-Cape Cod look, all cedar shingles and white trim applied to a rambling collection of rooms. \u2014 Alexandra Lange, Curbed , 1 Aug. 2019",
"At the Mason Street Townhouses, Richard Cawley\u2019s art has butterflies springing from a metal frame and sprays of cherry blossoms coming from the buildings\u2019 gables . \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Sep. 2019"
],
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"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Latin gabulus, gabulum \"gibbet\" (borrowed from Celtic *gablo- \"fork,\" whence Old Irish gabul \"fork, gibbet, groin,\" Welsh gafl \"fork, groin\"), perhaps influenced in sense by northern Middle English and Scots gavel \"triangular end of a building,\" borrowed from Old Norse gafl":""
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"definitions":{
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"Floor-to-ceiling screens and a louvered gable let more sun pour in. \u2014 Grace Haynes, Southern Living , 25 Apr. 2020",
"Wochit With its wide shingled body, its base made of stone and a dozen roof gables , this handsome house looks like it was lifted from the Nantucket seashore. \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 28 Mar. 2020",
"The home\u2019s dozens of gables , stone chimneys, and pinnacles suggest a small English village. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Feb. 2020",
"The home\u2019s dozens of gables , stone chimneys and pinnacles suggest a small English village. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Feb. 2020",
"The rebuilt roof\u2019s dormers and gables give quirky angles to some rooms, and its original arched windows are now double-pane insulated. \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 30 Nov. 2019",
"Its front face blends traditional styles \u2014 the shingle cladding of Nantucket, the pillars of classical Greece, the gables and dormers of Tudor. \u2014 Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press , 25 Jan. 2020",
"The facade used on TV is blah, a collection of nonsensical gables fronting the road, and the back aims for a faux-Cape Cod look, all cedar shingles and white trim applied to a rambling collection of rooms. \u2014 Alexandra Lange, Curbed , 1 Aug. 2019",
"At the Mason Street Townhouses, Richard Cawley\u2019s art has butterflies springing from a metal frame and sprays of cherry blossoms coming from the buildings\u2019 gables . \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Sep. 2019"
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"The park has gabion baskets \u2014 cage-like structures filled with rocks \u2014 down by the beach to prevent erosion, but those are failing. \u2014 Emma Keith, Detroit Free Press , 11 Sep. 2019",
"Some of the debris includes rocks, trees, and gabions , which are wire cages filled with rocks for engineering purposes. \u2014 Laura Bednar, cleveland.com , 24 Aug. 2019",
"The fence line to the yard is clearly custom-made \u2014 a pattern of gabion and sculpted iron. \u2014 Amy Pennington, The Seattle Times , 19 May 2019",
"Architects have responded with design changes, such as minimizing wood on the exterior, eliminating crawl spaces and using los of stones and gabion walls in landscaping. \u2014 Nancy Keates, WSJ , 19 Sep. 2018",
"To separate the outdoor courtyard from the parking area, the architects created a gabion wall \u2014 a fence-like steel cage filled with broken bricks and planted with vines. \u2014 Tim Mckeough, New York Times , 19 Dec. 2017",
"The bags are placed into steel mesh boxes called gabion baskets. \u2014 Drew Broach, NOLA.com , 28 Aug. 2017",
"Hunky architectural elements \u2014 like gabion walls, and a trellis with heavy posts and beam \u2014 draw the eye while creating shelter and privacy. \u2014 Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times , 19 July 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In keeping with the style, the cross- gable roof features exposed rafter tails. \u2014 Lauren Beale, Forbes , 11 Nov. 2021",
"Creating a loft bedroom on the top floor under the cross- gable roof and an exercise space with a spa shower and laundry on the lower level expanded the living space to 3,295 square feet. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Oct. 2021",
"An image posted by the church on Facebook showed the building \u2014 a thin, mostly wooden structure with a towering gable roof \u2014 charred near the front door. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 27 Sep. 2021",
"The multilevel wood-clan home has the wide projecting gable roof , deep eaves, banks of casement windows and boxy shape associated with the Swiss Chalet style. \u2014 Lauren Beale, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"The street view of the two-story home shows a dominant gable roof that rises above the second-floor balcony and is painted a rich blue that\u2019s set off by handsome gray and white trim. \u2014 Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News , 4 May 2021",
"Customers also became fans of the restaurant's retro building, which has a distinctive split- gable roof with brown shingles, remnants of its former days as a Dairy Queen. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic , 5 Mar. 2021",
"There are the triangular windows tucked just under the eave-less gable roof line. \u2014 Sarah Bonnette | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com , 30 Dec. 2020",
"The home's effortless exterior gives you plenty of charm with a front porch, board-and-batten siding and a gable roof . \u2014 Star Tribune , 18 Dec. 2020"
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": the cries of migrating wild geese flying by night which are often popularly explained as the baying of a supernatural pack of hounds and to which various superstitious significances (as forebodings of evil) are attributed":[]
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