See conform on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sootvétstvovatʹ",
"sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
"word": "соотве́тствовать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soobrazovyvatʹ",
"sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
"word": "сообразовывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soobrazovyvatʹsja",
"sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
"word": "сообразовываться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podčinjatʹsja",
"sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
"word": "подчиняться"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to be in accordance with a set of specifications",
"word": "uymak"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt",
"word": "sopeuttaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt",
"word": "anpassen"
}
],
"word": "conform"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "fr",
"3": "conforme"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from French conforme",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French conforme.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "preposition",
"3": "+dative",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "conform (+dative)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "d"
},
"expansion": "conform (+dative)",
"name": "ro-prep"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"con‧form"
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "prep",
"related": [
{
"word": "conforma"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Romanian/orm",
"Rhymes:Romanian/orm/2 syllables",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian prepositions",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"according to"
],
"links": [
[
"according to",
"according to"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "potrivit"
}
],
"tags": [
"with-dative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/konˈform/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-orm"
}
],
"word": "conform"
}
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