See matchstick on Wiktionary
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"text": "Local workers hike up the side of the mountain and down into the crater at the top to harvest its sulfur—a byproduct of the gas that escapes from the volcano’s vents and collects near the shores of an acidic lake at the crater’s center. The chemical is used in industry worldwide, from making matchsticks to vulcanizing rubber, but Ijen’s sulfur goes mostly to local factories, which use it to bleach sugar.",
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"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "шкорче"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "čkorče",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "чкорче"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"lang_code": "ml",
"roman": "tīppeṭṭi",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"word": "തീപ്പെട്ടി"
},
{
"code": "mfe",
"lang": "Mauritian Creole",
"lang_code": "mfe",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"word": "zalimet"
},
{
"code": "prs",
"lang": "Dari",
"lang_code": "prs",
"roman": "kibrīt",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"word": "کِبْرِیت"
},
{
"code": "fa-ira",
"lang": "Iranian Persian",
"lang_code": "fa-ira",
"roman": "kebrit",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"word": "کِبْریت"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zapałka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palito de fósforo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "spíčka",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "спи́чка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "ши̏бица"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"feminine"
],
"word": "šȉbica"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"lang_code": "sk",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zápalka"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"lang_code": "sl",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vžigalica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fósforo"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"lang_code": "sw",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"word": "kijiti cha kiberiti"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "tändsticka"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"lang_code": "te",
"roman": "aggipulla",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"word": "అగ్గిపుల్ల"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"word": "kibrit"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"lang_code": "ota",
"roman": "kibrit",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"word": "كبریت"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "sirnýk",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сірни́к"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"word": "diêm"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "piece of wood",
"word": "que diêm"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "similar small and thin piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zapałka"
}
],
"word": "matchstick"
}
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"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": hoan-á-hé / hoan-á-hóe vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
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],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "matchstick",
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}
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