See airless on Wiktionary
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"Suffering from asphyxia."
],
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"asphyxia",
"asphyxia"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine) Suffering from asphyxia."
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
67,
74
]
],
"ref": "2012 November 8, Scott Tobias, “Memento’s puzzle structure hides big twists and bigger profundities”, in The AV Club:",
"text": "The worst that can—and has—been said about Memento is that it’s an airless gimmick, visually undistinguished, and not even all that sophisticated when the puzzle pieces are finally put together.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Stifling; dead; lacking vitality or excitement."
],
"links": [
[
"Stifling",
"stifling"
],
[
"dead",
"dead"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) Stifling; dead; lacking vitality or excitement."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɛə.ləs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-airless.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-airless.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-airless.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɛɹ.ləs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɛɚ.ləs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈeː.ləs/",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈiə.ləs/",
"note": "New Zealand, cheer–chair merger"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈeə.ləs/",
"note": "without the cheer–chair merger",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈeɹ.ləs/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɜː(ɹ).ləs/",
"note": "Lancashire, fair–fur merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛə(ɹ)ləs"
},
{
"homophone": "earless (cheer–chair merger)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"lang_code": "az",
"sense": "lacking air",
"word": "havasız"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "bezvăzdušen",
"sense": "lacking air",
"word": "безвъздушен"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "lacking air",
"word": "ilmaton"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "uhaero",
"sense": "lacking air",
"word": "უჰაერო"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"lang_code": "ky",
"roman": "abasız",
"sense": "lacking air",
"word": "абасыз"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "bezvozdušen",
"sense": "lacking air",
"word": "безвоздушен"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "lacking air",
"word": "bezpowietrzny"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "bezvozdúšnyj",
"sense": "lacking air",
"word": "безвозду́шный"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "lacking air",
"word": "havasız"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "bezpovítrjanyj",
"sense": "lacking air",
"word": "безпові́тряний"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "lacking air circulation",
"word": "tuulettumaton"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "lacking air circulation",
"word": "tunkkainen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "with air that is stale",
"word": "tunkkainen"
}
],
"word": "airless"
}
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