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"Finnish", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "word": "ketjukäyrä" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "chaînette" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Kettenlinie" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "kav sharshéret", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "קו שרשרת" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "word": "láncgörbe" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "word": "kötélgörbe" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "catenaria" }, { "alt": "けんすいきょくせん", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kensuikyokusen", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "word": "懸垂曲線" }, { "alt": "けんすいせん", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kensuisen", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "word": "懸垂線" }, { "code": "kk", "lang": "Kazakh", "roman": "tızbektı syzyq", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "word": "тізбекті сызық" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "cepnaja", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "цепная ли́ния" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "catenaria" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "curve of a flexible chain", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "kedjekurva" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "curve of an anchor cable", "word": "ketjukäyrä" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "curve of an anchor cable", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "cuar" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "curve of an anchor cable", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "cuar slabhra" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "power lines above tracks", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": 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