"echard" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "chresard"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἔχω",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to hold"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”) + ἄρδω (árdō, “to water, to irrigate”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "echards",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "echard (plural echards)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Soil science",
          "orig": "en:Soil science",
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            "Earth sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, Arthur Tansley, The New Phytologist, page 238",
          "text": "The echard of a given habitat is experimentally ascertained by isolating a block of soil by impermeable plates, allowing it to dry slowly and determining its water-content at the time when the plants growing on it are wilting irrecoverably",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, John Smith, Distribution of Tree Species in the Sudan in Relation to Rainfall and Soil Texture",
          "text": "Grasses sprout on the sands long before the early rains have restored the echard of adjoining clays and given a surplus as chresard which can initiate grass growth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation."
      ],
      "id": "en-echard-en-noun-NHPtCfDq",
      "links": [
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "soil",
          "soil"
        ],
        [
          "vegetation",
          "vegetation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "holard"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛkˌɑː(ɹ)d/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "echard"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "chresard"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἔχω",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to hold"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”) + ἄρδω (árdō, “to water, to irrigate”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "echards",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "echard (plural echards)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "holard"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
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        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Soil science"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, Arthur Tansley, The New Phytologist, page 238",
          "text": "The echard of a given habitat is experimentally ascertained by isolating a block of soil by impermeable plates, allowing it to dry slowly and determining its water-content at the time when the plants growing on it are wilting irrecoverably",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, John Smith, Distribution of Tree Species in the Sudan in Relation to Rainfall and Soil Texture",
          "text": "Grasses sprout on the sands long before the early rains have restored the echard of adjoining clays and given a surplus as chresard which can initiate grass growth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "soil",
          "soil"
        ],
        [
          "vegetation",
          "vegetation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛkˌɑː(ɹ)d/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "echard"
}