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"roman": "taqrīẓ",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
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],
"word": "تَقْرِيظ"
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{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "大作廣告"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàzuò guǎnggào",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "大作广告"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "flaptekst"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "takakansiteksti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "mainosteksti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quatrième de couverture"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Klappentext"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Einbandtext"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Umschlagtext"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "books",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "fülszöveg"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fascetta pubblicitaria"
},
{
"alt": "せんでんぶん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sendenbun",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "宣伝文"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "brødtekst"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "taqriz",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "تقریظ"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blurb"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "sinopse"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "resumo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "síntese"
},
{
"alt": "рекла́мная",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "annotácija",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "аннота́ция"
},
{
"alt": "изда́тельская",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rekláma",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "рекла́ма"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "sinopsis"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "resumen"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "síntesis"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
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"word": "anmälan"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"word": "baksidestext"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "a short description of a book, film, or other work",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "broliant"
}
],
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"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)b",
"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)b/1 syllable",
"Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations"
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"word": "capsule review"
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{
"ref": "2007 July 4, David M. Halbfinger, “Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review”, in New York Times:",
"text": "When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.”",
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"To write or quote in a blurb."
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"blurb",
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"(transitive) To write or quote in a blurb."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
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"ref": "2012 April 17, Jon Michaud, “Blurb This!”, in The New Yorker:",
"text": "The unseemly business of book blurbing has been source of both humor and concern in the pages of The New Yorker.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Peter Simonson, David W. Park, The International History of Communication Study, page 268:",
"text": "Edward R. Murrow and other leading radio personalities blurbed the book, published in 1950 by Oxford University Press, and Siepmann thanked Paul Lazarsfeld and Herta Herzog in his acknowledgments.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To supply with a blurb."
],
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"(transitive) To supply with a blurb."
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"tags": [
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},
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"form": "blurbem",
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"form": "blurbami",
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},
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"form": "blurbie",
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"locative",
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},
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"form": "blurbach",
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"locative",
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},
{
"form": "blurbie",
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"form": "blurby",
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"blurb (short description of a book, film)"
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"masculine"
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"rhymes": "-ɛrp"
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