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"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "architecture: support for an arch or vault",
"word": "abutmento"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "architecture: support for an arch or vault",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przyczółek"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bregovi ustoi",
"sense": "engineering: support for the ends of a bridge",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "брегови устои"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "engineering: support for the ends of a bridge",
"word": "maatuki"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "engineering: support for the ends of a bridge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estribo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something that abuts, or on which something abuts",
"word": "tuki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "state of abutting",
"word": "tuki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "state of abutting",
"word": "tukeminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "state of abutting",
"word": "butée"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "state of abutting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Angrenzen"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "state of abutting",
"word": "confinamento"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "state of abutting",
"word": "conjuncto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "state of abutting",
"word": "rinfianco"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "state of abutting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estribo"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "architecture: element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor",
"word": "abutmento"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "architecture: element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przyczółek"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dentistry: tooth that supports a denture or bridge",
"word": "tukihammas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dentistry: tooth that supports a denture or bridge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ponte"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained",
"word": "tukipiste"
}
],
"word": "abutment"
}
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