dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/led_MW.json
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"ledum camphor":{
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": ledol":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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},
"LED":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a semiconductor diode that emits light when a voltage is applied to it and that is used especially in electronic devices (as for an indicator light)":[]
},
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"\u02ccel-\u02cc\u0113-\u02c8d\u0113",
"\u02ccel-(\u02cc)\u0113-\u02c8d\u0113"
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"l ight- e mitting d iode":"Noun"
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"1968, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"ledger":{
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"noun"
],
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": a book containing accounts to which debits and credits are posted from books of original entry":[
"Psmith, perched gracefully on a stool, entered figures in a ledger .",
"\u2014 P. G. Wodehouse"
],
": a horizontal board used for vertical support (as in scaffolding)":[
"I'd rather see joists resting on a ledger , spiked to the girders or to the house through spacers.",
"\u2014 Jim Locke"
]
},
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"\u02c8le-j\u0259r"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Otherwise, athletic departments would consist of football, men\u2019s basketball and an equivalent number of scholarship opportunities on the women\u2019s side of the ledger . \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"But a surge in borrowing can put pressure on some banks to maintain the funding side of the ledger , further increasing competition for deposits. \u2014 Telis Demos, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"But what about the models at the other end of the ledger ",
"The left-hander got some serious help to walk away from his start Monday night with a win and only one run on his ledger . \u2014 Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 June 2022",
"The two-time PGA champion has taken eight swings at winning the Masters, the lone major missing from his own ledger , and has been in the top 5 four times, with a second-place finish earlier this year. \u2014 Dave Skretta, ajc , 18 May 2022",
"The Maulers are the USFL's only winless squad, with 17-3, 30-23 and 24-0 losses on their ledger . \u2014 Jace Evans, USA TODAY , 7 May 2022",
"This may have been a prototype for his larger ledger . \u2014 Rebecca Rego Barry, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 Apr. 2022",
"But his first month at Triple-A Las Vegas hinted at his ability to make an impact on both sides of the ledger , at the plate as well as behind it. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English lygger, leger large breviary, beam, probably from leyen, leggen to lay":""
},
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"1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"ledger line":{
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a short line added above or below a musical staff to extend its range":[]
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"\u02c8le-j\u0259r-"
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"first_known_use":{
"1697, in the meaning defined above":""
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"ledgeman":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": breaker sense 4e":[]
},
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"-jm\u0259n"
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"ledgeless":{
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"adjective"
],
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": having no ledge":[]
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"-jl\u0259\u0307s"
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"ledged":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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": having ledges":[]
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"-jd"
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"ledger board":{
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"noun"
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": a horizontal board forming the top rail of a simple fence or the handrail of a balustrade":[],
": a flooring board in scaffolding":[],
": ribbon sense 2b":[]
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"led":{
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"noun"
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": a semiconductor diode that emits light when a voltage is applied to it and that is used especially in electronic devices (as for an indicator light)":[]
},
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"\u02ccel-\u02cc\u0113-\u02c8d\u0113",
"\u02ccel-(\u02cc)\u0113-\u02c8d\u0113"
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"l ight- e mitting d iode":"Noun"
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"1968, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": a raised or projecting edge or molding intended to protect or check":[
"a window ledge"
],
": an underwater ridge or reef especially near the shore":[],
": rock that is solid or continuous enough to form ledges : bedrock":[
"the field was full of ledge"
],
": lode , vein":[]
},
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"\u02c8lej"
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"birds perched on the ledge of a building",
"a ledge on the side of the mountain",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From a hidden ledge high above the courtyard runway, a dancing troupe suddenly stood up mid-show to gasps from the audience. \u2014 Thomas Adamson, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"Off the ice: Shortly before 9 a.m. Sunday, a helicopter eased a 2,500-pound, 25-foot steel replica of the Stanley Cup onto a ledge of the Wayne County Building. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 9 June 2022",
"Prince George, age eight, appeared to reach out to the balcony\u2019s ledge , but that\u2019s not in the script, George! \u2014 Sam Reed, Glamour , 7 June 2022",
"The ledge was 6 to 8 feet below an overlook off West Bridge Street, just west of South Rocky River Drive. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 2 June 2022",
"Wild columbine is a fine choice for a gravelly slope, rock ledge , or rock garden. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 May 2022",
"Gripe eliminated lots more common letters\u2014and words like ledge or hedge and so forth. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"The cucumber\u2014more than three-quarters of it in shadow\u2014projects out to the viewer, moving off its ledge . \u2014 Willard Spiegelman, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"On Wednesday night, Wooten-Holway crossed a nearby intersection and decided the ledge in front of her was the perfect spot for the red coat hangers. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English legge bar of a gate":""
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"1535, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-125324"
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"ledger paper":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a strong durable medium to heavy writing paper with good erasing quality used in business ledgers and record books":[]
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"ledges":{
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": a raised or projecting edge or molding intended to protect or check":[
"a window ledge"
],
": an underwater ridge or reef especially near the shore":[],
": rock that is solid or continuous enough to form ledges : bedrock":[
"the field was full of ledge"
],
": lode , vein":[]
},
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"\u02c8lej"
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"birds perched on the ledge of a building",
"a ledge on the side of the mountain",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From a hidden ledge high above the courtyard runway, a dancing troupe suddenly stood up mid-show to gasps from the audience. \u2014 Thomas Adamson, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"Off the ice: Shortly before 9 a.m. Sunday, a helicopter eased a 2,500-pound, 25-foot steel replica of the Stanley Cup onto a ledge of the Wayne County Building. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 9 June 2022",
"Prince George, age eight, appeared to reach out to the balcony\u2019s ledge , but that\u2019s not in the script, George! \u2014 Sam Reed, Glamour , 7 June 2022",
"The ledge was 6 to 8 feet below an overlook off West Bridge Street, just west of South Rocky River Drive. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 2 June 2022",
"Wild columbine is a fine choice for a gravelly slope, rock ledge , or rock garden. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 May 2022",
"Gripe eliminated lots more common letters\u2014and words like ledge or hedge and so forth. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"The cucumber\u2014more than three-quarters of it in shadow\u2014projects out to the viewer, moving off its ledge . \u2014 Willard Spiegelman, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"On Wednesday night, Wooten-Holway crossed a nearby intersection and decided the ledge in front of her was the perfect spot for the red coat hangers. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 May 2022"
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"Middle English legge bar of a gate":""
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"1535, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174453"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the introductory section of a news story that is intended to entice the reader to read the full story":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0113d"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From the lede , which introduced a compelling subject who refused to be interviewed, to the graphics that helped readers keep up with the many characters, the stories connected all the dots. \u2014 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Apr. 2022",
"People know how to write a lede in a certain kind of way. \u2014 Clare Malone, The New Yorker , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Save the ever-present rumble of the train, Fuller\u2019s lede plays out as a wordless dance of the Big City. \u2014 Mark Jacobson, Vulture , 11 Dec. 2021",
"One of them was a woman in Seattle, who ended up in my lede . \u2014 Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Screenshots of Wolken\u2019s headline and lede are commonplace on his social media feeds. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Most writers are intimately familiar with the near-impossible task of writing a compelling lede \u2014 the first few lines of a story designed to hook the reader and draw them in. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 29 June 2021",
"Don\u2019t undersell yourself with a generic social lede . \u2014 Tyler Hayes, Wired , 9 June 2021",
"Representatives for those mentioned would doubtless argue that some cherry-picking went into that news lede . \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 8 June 2021"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of lead entry 2":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1947, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222507"
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"ledger blade":{
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a stationary blade in a machine for shearing cloth":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002447"
},
"ledger bait":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": fishing bait rigged so that the bait lies on the bottom below the sinker":[]
},
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"led captain":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an obsequious follower : sycophant , toady":[
"and a rich lad at school or college has his followers, tuft-hunters, led captains",
"\u2014 W. M. Thackeray"
]
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"ledeburite":{
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the cementite-austenite eutectic structure in iron-carbon alloys or commercial cast iron":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0101d\u0259\u02ccbu\u0307\u02ccr\u012bt"
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"German ledeburit , from Adolf Ledebur \u20201906 German metallurgist + German -it -ite":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-074800"
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"led farm":{
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a farm owned and managed by a nonresident farmer":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-132055"
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"definitions":{
"Leon Max 1922\u20132018 American physicist":[]
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"\u02c8l\u0101-d\u0259r-m\u0259n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-140940"
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"ledger bark":{
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"definitions":{
": the chief commercial cinchona bark derived from cultivated Javanese cinchonas and notably rich in quinine":[]
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"after Charles Ledger , 19th century English botanist in Peru":""
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"type":[
"plural noun"
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"definitions":{
": leather shorts often with suspenders worn especially in Bavaria":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0101-d\u0259r-\u02cch\u014d-z\u1d4an"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Dust off the old lederhosen and head on down to The Z Hall this Sunday, Oct. 3 for Oktoberfeast. \u2014 Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press , 3 Oct. 2021",
"Beer lovers everywhere, put away your lederhosen and dirndls. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 3 May 2021",
"Grab your lederhosen and head for Fitch Plaza at the War Memorial Center, the stage for three days of German music, food from Kegel's Inn and Hofbrau German beer. \u2014 Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Sep. 2020",
"When Gabalier dropped to the stage floor at the end of the song, streamers in the color of the Austrian flag shot into the audience, and thousands of dirndl and lederhosen wearers cheered. \u2014 Thomas Rogers, New York Times , 10 Sep. 2019",
"Don your lederhosen for King\u2019s Oktoberfest at King\u2019s BierHaus complete with German food and drinks, a Bavarian Strongman Competition, beer pong, carnival games and more. \u2014 Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle , 16 Oct. 2019",
"Revelers, some wearing traditional German costumes including lederhosen , ran from the scene as police evacuated the complex. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Oct. 2019",
"Most men at Denver\u2019s Oktoberfest wore their lederhosen quite loose and baggy. \u2014 Anna Clauss, The Know , 23 Sep. 2019",
"The celebration includes stein engravings, sausage eating contests, stein hoisting contests, a goldrush cash punch wall, and a lederhosen and dirndle contest. \u2014 Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com , 16 Sep. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"German, from Middle High German lederhose , from leder leather + hose trousers":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1936, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-184459"
},
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"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Huddie 1888\u20131949":[
"Leadbelly \\ \u02c8led-\u200b\u02ccbe-\u200bl\u0113 \\"
],
"American blues singer":[
"Leadbelly \\ \u02c8led-\u200b\u02ccbe-\u200bl\u0113 \\"
]
},
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"\u02c8led-\u02ccbe-t\u0259r"
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"definitions":{
"Joshua 1925\u20132008 American geneticist":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0101-d\u0259r-\u02ccb\u0259rg"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-074922"
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"Leda":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the mother of Clytemnestra and Castor by her husband Tyndareus and of Helen and Pollux by Zeus who comes to her in the form of a swan":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0113-d\u0259"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek L\u0113da":""
},
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"circa 1527, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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},
"ledger plate":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the shearing base over which a section of a reciprocating sickle or mower knife slides in cutting with an agricultural binder, reaper, or mower":[],
": ledger strip":[]
},
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"ledger score":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": back score sense 2":[]
},
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"definitions":{
": a narrow strip of lumber nailed to the side of a girder and flush with its bottom edge to help support floor or ceiling joists notched to accommodate it":[]
},
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": fishing tackle arranged so that the lead and bait rest upon the bottom":[]
},
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"noun"
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": a ledged structure or group of ledges : ledge":[]
},
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"\u02c8leji\u014b",
"-j\u0113\u014b"
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"definitions":{
": a horizontal suite of moldings (as the base moldings of a building)":[]
},
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"Middle English legement , from legge ledge + -ment":""
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"definitions":{
": a crystalline sesquiterpenoid alcohol C 15 H 25 OH occurring in the oil from the leaves and flowering tops of the marsh tea and in other essential oils":[]
},
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"-d\u014dl",
"\u02c8l\u0113\u02ccd\u022fl"
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"International Scientific Vocabulary led- (from New Latin Ledum ) + -ol":""
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"Leduc effect":{
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"definitions":{
": righi-leduc effect":[]
},
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"l\u0259\u02c8d\u00fck-"
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"after Sylvestre Anatole Leduc , 20th century French physicist":""
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": a genus of shrubs (family Ericaceae) of cold regions having a deciduous corolla of separate petals and a septicidal capsule \u2014 see labrador tea , marsh tea":[],
": any plant of the genus Ledum":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0113d\u0259m"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek l\u0113don rockrose":""
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