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{
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{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “include as part”",
"word": "exclude"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “include as part”",
"word": "omit"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “limit by restraint”",
"word": "release"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “limit by restraint”",
"word": "vent"
}
],
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"word": "contain multitudes"
},
{
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"word": "contain oneself"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "self-contain"
}
],
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"2": "ine-pro",
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},
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"name": "root"
},
{
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"2": "enm",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Middle English",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"3": "contenir"
},
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},
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"4": "",
"5": "to hold or keep together, comprise, contain"
},
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"2": "con-",
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"4": "together"
},
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},
{
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"2": "teneō",
"3": "",
"4": "to hold"
},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English, borrowed from Old French contenir, from Latin continēre (“to hold or keep together, comprise, contain”), combined form of con- (“together”) + teneō (“to hold”).",
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{
"form": "contains",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "containing",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "contained",
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"past"
]
},
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"form": "contained",
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]
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],
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"con‧tain"
],
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"word": "containable"
},
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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{
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"word": "content"
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}
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{
"text": "The brown box contains three stacks of books.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845",
"text": "[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria,[…].",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To hold inside."
],
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"links": [
[
"hold",
"hold"
],
[
"inside",
"inside"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To hold inside."
],
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{
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "enclose"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"sense": "hold inside",
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}
],
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "اِحْتَوَى"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
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"roman": "taḍammana",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "تَضَمَّنَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pobiram",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "побирам"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "contenir"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bāohán",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "包含"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hányǒu",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "含有"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hán",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "含"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "obsahovat"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "indeholde"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "inhouden"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "bevatten"
},
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "enhavi"
},
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"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "rajoittaa"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "rajata"
},
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"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "hillitä"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "estää leviämästä"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "contenir"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "conter"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "enthalten"
},
{
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "khandánō",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "χανδάνω"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "heikhíl",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "הכיל"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "kontenar"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "contenere"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"alt": "ふくむ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fukumu",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "含む"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "teneo"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "cont'nîn"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "conténer"
},
{
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "zawierać"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "conter"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "conține"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soderžátʹ",
"sense": "hold inside",
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],
"word": "содержа́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vmeščátʹ",
"sense": "hold inside",
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],
"word": "вмеща́ть"
},
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"_dis1": "96 0 2 0 1",
"code": "sl",
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "vsebovati"
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "contener"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "innehålla"
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"text": "Most of the meals they offer contain meat.",
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{
"ref": "2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884",
"text": "Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.",
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"To include as a part."
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"(transitive) To include as a part."
],
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"word": "comprise"
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{
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "اِحْتَوَى"
},
{
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sǎdǎržam",
"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "съдържам"
},
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"sense": "include as a part",
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{
"_dis1": "0 93 1 4 2",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "sisältää"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 93 1 4 2",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "käsittää"
},
{
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "enthalten"
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
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},
{
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "kalál",
"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "כלל"
},
{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "contenere"
},
{
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "cont'nîn"
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"code": "pl",
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"word": "zawierać"
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"code": "pt",
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},
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "conține"
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"code": "ru",
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},
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "vsebovati"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 93 1 4 2",
"code": "sl",
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "vključevati"
},
{
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"sense": "include as a part",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 93 1 4 2",
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "innehålla"
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{
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"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "koylel zayn",
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"word": "כּולל זײַן"
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"text": "I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!",
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},
{
"ref": "1988, Lee Mavers, “There She Goes”, in Sixpence None the Richer, performed by Sixpence None the Richer, published 1997",
"text": "There she goes / There she goes again / Racing through my brain / And I just can't contain / This feeling that remains",
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"To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds."
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"(transitive) To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds."
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"sense": "limit by restraint",
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "iḥtawā",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
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},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 57 2 35",
"code": "bg",
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "сдържам"
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{
"_dis1": "3 3 57 2 35",
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"roman": "vǎzdǎržam",
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"word": "въздържам"
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "contenir"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
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"_dis1": "3 3 57 2 35",
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "eingrenzen"
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "contenere"
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "cont'nîn"
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{
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
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"roman": "sdérživatʹ",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
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"roman": "sderžátʹ",
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "contener"
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{
"_dis1": "3 3 57 2 35",
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
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"text": "A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.",
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"(mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset."
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"To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity."
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"(obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity."
],
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},
{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “include as part”",
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},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of “limit by restraint”",
"word": "release"
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{
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"ref": "2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845",
"text": "[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria,[…].",
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"(transitive) To hold inside."
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"ref": "2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884",
"text": "Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.",
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"ref": "1988, Lee Mavers, “There She Goes”, in Sixpence None the Richer, performed by Sixpence None the Richer, published 1997",
"text": "There she goes / There she goes again / Racing through my brain / And I just can't contain / This feeling that remains",
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"text": "A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.",
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"text": "If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning.",
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"(obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity."
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "enclose"
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"sense": "hold inside",
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "iḥtawā",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "اِحْتَوَى"
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "taḍammana",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "تَضَمَّنَ"
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"roman": "pobiram",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "побирам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "contenir"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bāohán",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "包含"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hányǒu",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "含有"
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"roman": "hán",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "含"
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "obsahovat"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "indeholde"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "inhouden"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "bevatten"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "enhavi"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "rajoittaa"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "rajata"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "hillitä"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "estää leviämästä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "contenir"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "conter"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "enthalten"
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"code": "grc",
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"roman": "khandánō",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "χανδάνω"
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "heikhíl",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "הכיל"
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{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "kontenar"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "contenere"
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fukumu",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "含む"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "teneo"
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{
"code": "nrf",
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "cont'nîn"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "conténer"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "zawierać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "conter"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "conține"
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"sense": "hold inside",
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"imperfective"
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"word": "содержа́ть"
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"sense": "hold inside",
"word": "contener"
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"sense": "hold inside",
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"sense": "include as a part",
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"roman": "sǎdǎržam",
"sense": "include as a part",
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "contenir"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "sisältää"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "include as a part",
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "contenir"
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
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"sense": "include as a part",
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{
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "conter"
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "contener"
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{
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"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "innehålla"
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{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "koylel zayn",
"sense": "include as a part",
"word": "כּולל זײַן"
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "iḥtawā",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "اِحْتَوَى"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sdǎržam",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "сдържам"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎzdǎržam",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "въздържам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "contenir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "hillitä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "contenir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "eingrenzen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "contenere"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "cont'nîn"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "conter"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"word": "obvladovati"
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{
"code": "sl",
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "limit through restraint",
"word": "contener"
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{
"code": "es",
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"word": "dominar"
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