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"feminine" ], "word": "berma" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Australian English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Mining", "orig": "en:Mining", "parents": [ "Industries", "Business", "Economics", "Society", "Social sciences", "All topics", "Sciences", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "4 13 26 10 3 32 2 9 0 1", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "19 2 12 18 9 2 18 1 9 1 1 8 1", "kind": "other", "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "4 13 20 12 18 20 3 6 1 3", "kind": "place", "langcode": "en", "name": "Landforms", "orig": "en:Landforms", "parents": [ "Earth", "Places", "Nature", "Names", "All topics", "Proper nouns", "Terms by semantic function", "Fundamental", "Nouns", "Lemmas" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine." ], "id": "en-berm-en-noun-en:mining_terrace", "links": [ [ "mining", "mining#Noun" ], [ "terrace", "terrace" ], [ "open-pit mine", "open-pit mine" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(mining, Australia) One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine." ], "senseid": [ "en:mining terrace" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "bench" }, { "word": "bench floor" } ], "tags": [ "Australia" ], "topics": [ "business", "mining" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "4 13 26 10 3 32 2 9 0 1", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "4 13 20 12 18 20 3 6 1 3", "kind": "place", "langcode": "en", "name": "Landforms", "orig": "en:Landforms", "parents": [ "Earth", "Places", "Nature", "Names", "All topics", "Proper nouns", "Terms by semantic function", "Fundamental", "Nouns", "Lemmas" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "6 16 7 25 4 12 4 6 13 5", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Roads", "orig": "en:Roads", "parents": [ "Road transport", "Transport", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "On some beaches, the berm grows higher in summer and flattens out in the rougher winter seas.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action." ], "id": "en-berm-en-noun-en:beach", "links": [ [ "terrace", "terrace" ], [ "shelf", "shelf" ], [ "sand", "sand" ], [ "beach", "beach" ], [ "high tide", "high tide" ], [ "wave", "wave" ], [ "action", "action" ] ], "senseid": [ "en:beach" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "10 5 12 47 3 12 8 4 0", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "terrace formed by wave action", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "berma" }, { "_dis1": "10 5 12 47 3 12 8 4 0", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "terrace formed by wave action", "word": "rantavalli" }, { "_dis1": "10 5 12 47 3 12 8 4 0", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "terrace formed by wave action", "word": "töyräs" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "4 13 20 12 18 20 3 6 1 3", "kind": "place", "langcode": "en", "name": "Landforms", "orig": "en:Landforms", "parents": [ "Earth", "Places", "Nature", "Names", "All topics", "Proper nouns", "Terms by semantic function", "Fundamental", "Nouns", "Lemmas" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "A berm separates the Moroccan-controlled and Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation." ], "id": "en-berm-en-noun-ggc36Vyc", "links": [ [ "mound", "mound" ], [ "earth", "earth" ], [ "barrier", "barrier" ], [ "insulation", "insulation" ] ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "4 7 3 4 78 3 1 0 0", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "mound or bank of earth used as a barrier or to provide insulation", "word": "valli" }, { "_dis1": "4 7 3 4 78 3 1 0 0", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "mound or bank of earth used as a barrier or to provide insulation", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "berma" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "American English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Canadian English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Mining", "orig": "en:Mining", "parents": [ "Industries", "Business", "Economics", "Society", "Social sciences", "All topics", "Sciences", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "4 13 26 10 3 32 2 9 0 1", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "19 2 12 18 9 2 18 1 9 1 1 8 1", "kind": "other", "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "4 13 20 12 18 20 3 6 1 3", "kind": "place", "langcode": "en", "name": "Landforms", "orig": "en:Landforms", "parents": [ "Earth", "Places", "Nature", "Names", "All topics", "Proper nouns", "Terms by semantic function", "Fundamental", "Nouns", "Lemmas" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest." ], "id": "en-berm-en-noun-en:mining_wall", "links": [ [ "mining", "mining#Noun" ], [ "wall", "wall" ], [ "bench", "bench" ], [ "open-pit mine", "open-pit mine" ], [ "crest", "crest" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(mining, US, Canada) A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest." ], "senseid": [ "en:mining wall" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "windrow" } ], "tags": [ "Canada", "US" ], "topics": [ "business", "mining" ] }, { "glosses": [ "A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification." ], "id": "en-berm-en-noun-Cqgyaego", "links": [ [ "parapet", "parapet" ], [ "moat", "moat" ], [ "fortification", "fortification" ] ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "13 1 2 7 1 4 59 12 0", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "ledge between the parapet and the moat", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "odsadzka" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Indiana English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "New Zealand English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Ohio English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pennsylvania English", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2003, Emma Espiner, There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir, Penguin, page 15", "text": "The sun soaked our street in hot yellow, and the berms were gasping for 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} { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "nl", "3": "berm", "t": "strip of roadside grass, verge" }, "expansion": "Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”)", "name": "bor" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "fr", "3": "berme" }, "expansion": "French berme", "name": "bor" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "dum", "3": "barm" }, "expansion": "Middle Dutch barm", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "dum", "2": "baerm" }, "expansion": "baerm", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "dum", "2": "barem", "t": "verge, bank" }, "expansion": "barem (“verge, bank”)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "odt", "3": "*barm" }, "expansion": "Old Dutch *barm", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*barm" }, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *barm", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*barmaz", "t": "edge, border, seam" }, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”)", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "brim" }, 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