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"To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance."
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"(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance."
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "دَعَا"
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"roman": "prizovavam",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "invocar"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "påkalde"
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"word": "anråbe"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "aanroepen"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "elvoki"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "pyytää"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "invoquer"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "anrufen"
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"roman": "epikaléō",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "ἐπικαλέω"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "folyamodik"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "segítségül hív"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "chiedere"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "invocō"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "udhukuru"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "heita á"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "invocar"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzyvatʹ",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "взывать"
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"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "gṛṇāti",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "गृणाति"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "blahaty",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "благати"
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{
"text": "The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another drought.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291",
"text": "Whatever the pressures that have invoked the Minister's diktat, the outcome is Gilbertian.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2021 August 25, David Clough, “The Sleeper experience”, in RAIL, number 938, page 61",
"text": "In May [1995], the court issued an interdict preventing the service withdrawal, pending consultation on the closure to passenger traffic of three short stretches of railway around Glasgow and its hinterland that were only used by the Fort William Sleeper - and for which BR had failed to invoke standard closure procedures.",
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"To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude."
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"(transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude."
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"roman": "molja",
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"word": "моля"
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"roman": "umoljavam",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "умолявам"
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"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "invocar"
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"_dis1": "6 60 6 10 6 4 7",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "appellere til"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "beroep doen op"
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"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "anoa"
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"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "invoquer"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "appellarsi"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prizyvátʹ",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "призыва́ть"
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"roman": "zaklykaty",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "закликати"
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"ref": "1869, John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women",
"text": "After marriage, the man had anciently (but this was anterior to Christianity) the power of life and death over his wife. She could invoke no law against him; he was her sole tribunal and law.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1872, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species",
"text": "The acquisition of a useless part can hardly be said to raise an organism in the natural scale; and in the case of the imperfect, closed flowers, above described, if any new principle has to be invoked, it must be one of retrogression rather than of progression; and so it must be with many parasitic and degraded animals.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1912, William Sharp McKechnie, The New Democracy and the Constitution",
"text": "It is easier to invoke or to deplore democracy than to say exactly what it is.",
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}
],
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"To call to mind (something) for some purpose."
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"(transitive) To call to mind (something) for some purpose."
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"text": "In certain Christian circles, invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.",
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{
"ref": "1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2007, page 21",
"text": "He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]",
"type": "quotation"
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"To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority."
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"(transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority."
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"word": "invocar"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "inroepen"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "vedota"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "invoquer"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "sich berühmen"
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{
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "epikaloúmai",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "επικαλούμαι"
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{
"_dis1": "5 9 3 75 3 2 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "hivatkozik"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "invocare"
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"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "apellirovatʹ",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "апеллировать"
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"text": "This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.",
"type": "example"
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"To conjure up with incantations."
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"(transitive) To conjure up with incantations."
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "vikam duhove",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "викам духове"
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"_dis1": "5 4 14 3 63 4 7",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "påkalde"
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{
"_dis1": "5 4 14 3 63 4 7",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "oproepen"
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{
"_dis1": "5 4 14 3 63 4 7",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "elvoki"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "kutsua"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "loihtia"
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"_dis1": "5 4 14 3 63 4 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "idéz"
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{
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "megidéz"
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{
"_dis1": "5 4 14 3 63 4 7",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "invocō"
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{
"_dis1": "5 4 14 3 63 4 7",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "póvika",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "по́вика"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 4 14 3 63 4 7",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "tuhi"
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{
"_dis1": "5 4 14 3 63 4 7",
"alt": "заклинанием n (zaklinanijem)",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prizyvátʹ",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "призыва́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 4 14 3 63 4 7",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "invocar"
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"text": "Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.",
"type": "example"
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"To bring about as an inevitable consequence."
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"(transitive) To bring about as an inevitable consequence."
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"_dis1": "2 1 3 1 2 84 6",
"code": "da",
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"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "medføre"
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 3 1 2 84 6",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "forårsage"
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"_dis1": "2 1 3 1 2 84 6",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "over afroepen (zich)"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 3 1 2 84 6",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "saada aikaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 3 1 2 84 6",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "előidéz"
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 3 1 2 84 6",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "predízvika",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "преди́звика"
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 3 1 2 84 6",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "dónese",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "до́несе"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 3 1 2 84 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výzvatʹ",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "вы́звать"
}
]
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{
"text": "Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1974 August 7, “Wholesalers Gain Basic Facts”, in Computerworld",
"text": "[…]the selling price and cost of a particular item are derived by the system through a table lookup and assigned to the item at invoking time.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Stephen Prata, C++ Primer Plus",
"text": "C++ lets you invoke an operator function either by calling the function or by using the overloaded operator with its usual syntax.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute."
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"(transitive, computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute."
],
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"_dis1": "3 2 3 1 3 5 82",
"sense": "cause a program or subroutine to execute",
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"engineering",
"mathematics",
"sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"natural-sciences"
],
"word": "call"
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{
"_dis1": "3 2 3 1 3 5 82",
"sense": "cause a program or subroutine to execute",
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"engineering",
"mathematics",
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{
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{
"_dis1": "3 2 4 1 3 6 80",
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"word": "richiamare"
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"_dis1": "3 2 4 1 3 6 80",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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"ref": "2021 August 25, David Clough, “The Sleeper experience”, in RAIL, number 938, page 61",
"text": "In May [1995], the court issued an interdict preventing the service withdrawal, pending consultation on the closure to passenger traffic of three short stretches of railway around Glasgow and its hinterland that were only used by the Fort William Sleeper - and for which BR had failed to invoke standard closure procedures.",
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"ref": "1869, John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women",
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"ref": "1872, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species",
"text": "The acquisition of a useless part can hardly be said to raise an organism in the natural scale; and in the case of the imperfect, closed flowers, above described, if any new principle has to be invoked, it must be one of retrogression rather than of progression; and so it must be with many parasitic and degraded animals.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1912, William Sharp McKechnie, The New Democracy and the Constitution",
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}
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"text": "In certain Christian circles, invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.",
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"ref": "1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2007, page 21",
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "دَعَا"
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "призовавам"
},
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "invocar"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "påkalde"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "anråbe"
},
{
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "aanroepen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "elvoki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "pyytää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "invoquer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "anrufen"
},
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "ἐπικαλέω"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "folyamodik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "segítségül hív"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "chiedere"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "invocō"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "póvika",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "по́вика"
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{
"code": "zdj",
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "udhukuru"
},
{
"code": "non",
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"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "heita á"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "invocar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzyvatʹ",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "взывать"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "gṛṇāti",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "गृणाति"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "blahaty",
"sense": "call upon someone for help etc.",
"word": "благати"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "invocar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "inroepen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "vedota"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "invoquer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "sich berühmen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "epikaloúmai",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "επικαλούμαι"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "hivatkozik"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "invocare"
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"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
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"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "apellirovatʹ",
"sense": "appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority",
"word": "апеллировать"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vikam duhove",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "викам духове"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "påkalde"
},
{
"code": "nl",
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"word": "oproepen"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "elvoki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "kutsua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "loihtia"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
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"word": "invocō"
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{
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"word": "по́вика"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "tuhi"
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"alt": "заклинанием n (zaklinanijem)",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prizyvátʹ",
"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "призыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "conjure up by incantation",
"word": "invocar"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "medføre"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "forårsage"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "over afroepen (zich)"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "saada aikaan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "előidéz"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "predízvika",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "преди́звика"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "dónese",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "до́несе"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výzvatʹ",
"sense": "bring about as an inevitable consequence",
"word": "вы́звать"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "molja",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "моля"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "umoljavam",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "умолявам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "invocar"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "appellere til"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "beroep doen op"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "anoa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "invoquer"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "appellarsi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prizyvátʹ",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "призыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zaklykaty",
"sense": "solicit, petition for",
"word": "закликати"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "調動"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "diàodòng",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "调动"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "oproepen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "aanroepen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "kutsua"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "hív"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "meghív"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "invocare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "richiedere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "richiamare"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "wywołać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "wywoływać"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vyzyvátʹ",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "вызыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vyklykaty",
"sense": "(computing) cause to execute",
"word": "викликати"
}
],
"word": "invoke"
}
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