See balance on Wiktionary
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"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"es:Accounting"
],
"glosses": [
"balance"
],
"links": [
[
"accounting",
"accounting#Noun"
],
[
"balance",
"balance#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(accounting) balance"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "saldo"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"accounting",
"business",
"finance"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/baˈlanθe/"
},
{
"ipa": "[baˈlãn̟.θe]"
},
{
"ipa": "/baˈlanse/"
},
{
"ipa": "[baˈlãn.se]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-anθe (Spain)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-anse (Latin America, Philippines)"
}
],
"word": "balance"
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: watchmaking",
"path": [
"balance"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "balance",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: watchmaking",
"path": [
"balance"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "balance",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'balance oblique singular or', originally 'balance oblique singular or f'",
"path": [
"balance"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "balance",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'balance oblique singular or', originally 'balance oblique singular or f'",
"path": [
"balance"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "balance",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ['feminine', 'canonical']: 'balance oblique singular or' in 'balance oblique singular, f (oblique plural balances, nominative singular balance, nominative plural balances)'",
"path": [
"balance"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
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}
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