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"ref": "1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer",
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"ref": "2013 October 5, “The widening gyre”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8856",
"text": "British inventions have done more to influence the shape of the modern world than those of any other country. Many—football, the steam engine and Worcestershire sauce, to take a random selection—have spread pleasure, goodwill and prosperity. Others—the Maxim gun, the Shrapnel shell and jellied eels—have not.",
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"text": "Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…].",
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"roman": "abiśkar",
"sense": "something invented",
"word": "আবিষ্কার"
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{
"code": "bg",
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"sense": "something invented",
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{
"code": "bg",
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{
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"sense": "something invented",
"word": "တီထွင်မှု"
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{
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "something invented",
"word": "發明"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fāmíng",
"sense": "something invented",
"word": "发明"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "something invented",
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{
"code": "nl",
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"code": "eo",
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "something invented",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "something invented",
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],
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
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],
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gamogonebisa",
"sense": "something invented",
"word": "გამოგონებისა"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "something invented",
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],
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{
"code": "hi",
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"sense": "something invented",
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "something invented",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"sense": "something invented",
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "something invented",
"word": "temuan"
},
{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "something invented",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aireagán"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"code": "km",
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{
"code": "lv",
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"sense": "something invented",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "lt",
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{
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{
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"code": "tr",
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"code": "ug",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.