See inch on Wiktionary
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"word": "a mile wide and an inch deep"
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"word": "Big Inch"
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"word": "budge an inch"
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{
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"word": "characters per inch"
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{
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"word": "column inch"
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"word": "cubic inch"
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"word": "dots per inch"
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"word": "give an inch"
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"word": "give someone an inch and someone will take a mile"
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{
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"word": "give them an inch and they'll take a mile"
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"word": "give them an inch and they'll take an ell"
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"word": "half-inch"
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"word": "half inch"
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"word": "in for an inch, in for a mile"
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"word": "Little Big Inch"
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"word": "metric inch"
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"word": "miner's inch"
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"word": "pixels per inch"
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"word": "pyramid inch"
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"word": "square inch"
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"word": "twelve-inch"
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"word": "united inch"
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"word": "within an inch of one's life"
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"1": "as",
"2": "ইঞ্চি",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Assamese: ইঞ্চি (io͂si)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Assamese: ইঞ্চি (io͂si)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hi",
"2": "इंच",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Hindi: इंच (iñc)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Hindi: इंच (iñc)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "inci",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Indonesian: inci",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Indonesian: inci"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "インチ",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "inchi"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: インチ (inchi)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: インチ (inchi)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "인치",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Korean: 인치 (inchi)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Korean: 인치 (inchi)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "и̏нч",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian: и̏нч",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Serbo-Croatian: и̏нч"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "inchi",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Swahili: inchi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Swahili: inchi"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tr",
"2": "inç",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Turkish: inç",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Turkish: inç"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "inh",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Vietnamese: inh",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Vietnamese: inh"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "ínǹsì",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Yoruba: ínǹsì",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Yoruba: ínǹsì"
}
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ynche"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ynche",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ynċe"
},
"expansion": "Old English ynċe",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "uncia",
"t": "Roman inch, various similar units"
},
"expansion": "Latin uncia (“Roman inch, various similar units”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*óynos",
"4": "",
"5": "one"
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"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”)",
"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "enke",
"t": "thumb, thumb's width, inch"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch enke (“thumb, thumb's width, inch”)",
"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ounce",
"3": "uncia",
"4": "onça",
"5": "onza",
"6": "oka",
"7": "ouguiya",
"8": "awqiyyah"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of ounce, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynċe, borrowed from Latin uncia (“Roman inch, various similar units”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Cognate with Middle Dutch enke (“thumb, thumb's width, inch”). Doublet of ounce, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.",
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{
"form": "inches",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "inch",
"tags": [
"UK",
"colloquial",
"plural"
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},
{
"form": "in.",
"tags": [
"abbreviation"
]
},
{
"form": "″",
"tags": [
"abbreviation"
]
}
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"1": "+",
"2": "*",
"pl2qual": "UK colloquial"
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"expansion": "inch (plural inches or (UK colloquial) inch)",
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"lang": "English",
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"pos": "noun",
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"examples": [
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"ref": "1873, Charles Tomlinson, chapter III, in Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 122:",
"text": "The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1939, The Department of Education of International Business Machines Corporation, chapter I, in Precision Measurement in the Metal Working Industry, first paperback binding edition, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "The term \"precision measurement\" […] refers to the art of reproducing and controlling dimensions expressed in thousandths of an inch or smaller.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487:",
"text": "He describes the operation thus: \"The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure.\"",
"type": "quote"
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"An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb."
],
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[
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"equal"
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[
"foot",
"foot"
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[
"cm",
"cm"
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[
"roughly",
"roughly"
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[
"width",
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[
"thumb",
"thumb"
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "duim"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "inç"
},
{
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "būṣa",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "بُوصَة"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šibr",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "شِبْر"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "dyuym",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "դյույմ"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "düymə"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "düym"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "dzjujm",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дзюйм"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "cálja",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ца́ля"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "inci",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "ইঞ্চি"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "meutad"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "inč",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "инч"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "djujm",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дюйм"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "lakma.",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "လက်မ"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "polzada"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yīngcùn",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "英寸"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palec"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coul"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "tomme"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "duim"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "colo"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "toll"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tummi"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "tuuma"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pouce"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pulgada"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "duimi",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "დუიმი"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Zoll"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "íntsa",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ίντσα"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "tasu",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "તસુ"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "intsh",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "אִינְץ׳"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "iñc",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "इंच"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "hüvelyk"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tomma"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "þumlungur"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "inch"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "inci"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "dim"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "djuima"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "orlach"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pollice"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "inchi",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "インチ"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "aṅguḷamu",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "ಅಂಗುಳಮು"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "düim",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "дюйм"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "ʼiiñ",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "អ៊ីញ"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "inchi",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "인치"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "dyuym",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "дюйм"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "nīu",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "ນີ້ວ"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "uncia"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "colla"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "colis"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "khb",
"lang": "Lü",
"roman": "niiw²",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "ᦓᦲᧁᧉ"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "inč",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "инч"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "col",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "цол"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "inci"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "ynche"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "inč",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "инч"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "asdzoh"
},
{
"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
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"_dis1": "65 4 23 5 4",
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"ref": "1840, Lewis Rose, chapter III, in An Humble Attempt to Put an End to the Present Divisions in the Church of Scotland, and to Promote Her Usefulness. […] , Glasgow: George Gallie, →OCLC, page 51:",
"text": "[B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from the ground of their groundless spiritual independence, […]",
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"text": "Already guarding a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham’s reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.",
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"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
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"singular",
"vocative"
]
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"plural",
"vocative"
]
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"2": "inchi"
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{
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"vs": "inchule",
"vs2": ""
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"kind": "other",
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{
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"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
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"English links with redundant alt parameters",
"English links with redundant wikilinks",
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"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English semantic loans from Cantonese",
"English terms derived from Cantonese",
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"Rhymes:English/ɪntʃ/1 syllable",
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"Terms with Albanian translations",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
"Terms with Belarusian translations",
"Terms with Bengali translations",
"Terms with Breton translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Burmese translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Estonian translations",
"Terms with Faroese translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Gujarati translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Ingrian translations",
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"Terms with Yoruba translations",
"en:Units of measure"
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"word": "a mile wide and an inch deep"
},
{
"word": "Big Inch"
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{
"word": "budge an inch"
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{
"word": "characters per inch"
},
{
"word": "column inch"
},
{
"word": "cubic inch"
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{
"word": "dots per inch"
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{
"word": "every inch"
},
{
"word": "give an inch"
},
{
"word": "give someone an inch and someone will take a mile"
},
{
"word": "give them an inch and they'll take a mile"
},
{
"word": "give them an inch and they'll take an ell"
},
{
"word": "half-inch"
},
{
"word": "half inch"
},
{
"word": "inch by inch"
},
{
"word": "inchmeal"
},
{
"word": "inch-perfect"
},
{
"word": "inch stuff"
},
{
"word": "inch tracker"
},
{
"word": "in for an inch, in for a mile"
},
{
"word": "Little Big Inch"
},
{
"word": "metric inch"
},
{
"word": "miner's inch"
},
{
"word": "pixels per inch"
},
{
"word": "pyramid inch"
},
{
"word": "square inch"
},
{
"word": "twelve-inch"
},
{
"word": "united inch"
},
{
"word": "within an inch of one's life"
}
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"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "as",
"2": "ইঞ্চি",
"bor": "1"
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Assamese: ইঞ্চি (io͂si)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hi",
"2": "इंच",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Hindi: इंच (iñc)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Hindi: इंच (iñc)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "inci",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Indonesian: inci",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Indonesian: inci"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "インチ",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "inchi"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: インチ (inchi)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: インチ (inchi)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "인치",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Korean: 인치 (inchi)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Korean: 인치 (inchi)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "и̏нч",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian: и̏нч",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Serbo-Croatian: и̏нч"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "inchi",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Swahili: inchi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Swahili: inchi"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tr",
"2": "inç",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Turkish: inç",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Turkish: inç"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "inh",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Vietnamese: inh",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Vietnamese: inh"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "ínǹsì",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Yoruba: ínǹsì",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Yoruba: ínǹsì"
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*óynos",
"4": "",
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{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "enke",
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ounce",
"3": "uncia",
"4": "onça",
"5": "onza",
"6": "oka",
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"UK",
"colloquial",
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{
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"abbreviation"
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{
"form": "″",
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{
"ref": "1873, Charles Tomlinson, chapter III, in Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 122:",
"text": "The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1939, The Department of Education of International Business Machines Corporation, chapter I, in Precision Measurement in the Metal Working Industry, first paperback binding edition, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "The term \"precision measurement\" […] refers to the art of reproducing and controlling dimensions expressed in thousandths of an inch or smaller.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487:",
"text": "He describes the operation thus: \"The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure.\"",
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],
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[
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{
"text": "Don't move an inch!",
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{
"ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:",
"text": "Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1840, Lewis Rose, chapter III, in An Humble Attempt to Put an End to the Present Divisions in the Church of Scotland, and to Promote Her Usefulness. […] , Glasgow: George Gallie, →OCLC, page 51:",
"text": "[B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from the ground of their groundless spiritual independence, […]",
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"Any very short distance."
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[
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[
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"(figuratively) Any very short distance."
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"figuratively"
]
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"length"
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[
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"other"
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[
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"system"
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[
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"measurement"
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{
"ref": "1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses, London: Chapman and Hall, page 14:",
"text": "Let us consider what one inch of rain really means. If an acre of land were covered with water to the depth of only the tenth part of an inch, that layer of water would weigh more than 10 tons: thus 1 inch of rain is ten times that amount—in fact, very nearly 101 tons.",
"type": "quote"
}
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[
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"meteorology"
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[
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"depth"
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"ground",
"ground"
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"use"
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[
"measurement",
"measurement"
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[
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},
{
"glosses": [
"A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages."
],
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[
"depth",
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"glass",
"glass"
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"use"
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"rough",
"rough"
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[
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"alcoholic"
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[
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{
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"word": "in"
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{
"word": "in."
}
],
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{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "duim"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "inç"
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "būṣa",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "بُوصَة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šibr",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "شِبْر"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "dyuym",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "դյույմ"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "düymə"
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{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "düym"
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{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "dzjujm",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "cálja",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ца́ля"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "inci",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "ইঞ্চি"
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{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "meutad"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "inč",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "инч"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "djujm",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дюйм"
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{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "lakma.",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "လက်မ"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "polzada"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yīngcùn",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "英寸"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palec"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coul"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "colo"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "toll"
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{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tummi"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "tuuma"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pouce"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pulgada"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "duimi",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "დუიმი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Zoll"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "íntsa",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ίντσα"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "tasu",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "તસુ"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "intsh",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "אִינְץ׳"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "iñc",
"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
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"word": "ಅಂಗುಳಮು"
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"word": "дюйм"
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"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
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"sense": "English unit of length and traditional equivalents",
"word": "អ៊ីញ"
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"word": "ນີ້ວ"
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"feminine"
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"masculine"
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"word": "inch along"
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{
"word": "inchworm"
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"ref": "2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph:",
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