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"text": "With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called \"Nancy's Fancy.\"",
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"text": "Russian forces likely accumulated a large amount of equipment for such mechanized assaults, but significant medium- to long-term constraints on Russian armored vehicle stocks will become more salient as losses grow and may force the Russian military command to rethink the benefit of continuing such intensified mechanized activity in Ukraine.",
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"word": "kiila"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"word": "rintamakiila"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"word": "saillant"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"word": "saillie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Frontvorsprung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Frontbogen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Frontausbuchtung"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"word": "saliero"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fremskutt del av front"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "narożnik"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klin"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výstup",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"word": "вы́ступ"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "utbuktning"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "part of a fortification",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "utskjutande vinkel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "geographic protrusion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zipfel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "geographic protrusion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Gebietszipfel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "geographic protrusion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Landzipfel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "geographic protrusion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Halbenklave"
}
],
"word": "salient"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "salient",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin 3-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin verb forms",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "saliō"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person plural future active indicative of saliō"
],
"links": [
[
"saliō",
"salio#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"active",
"form-of",
"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsa.li.ent/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈs̠älʲiɛn̪t̪]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsa.li.ent/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈsäːlien̪t̪]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "salient"
}
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