"jerrybuild" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jerrybuilds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jerrybuilding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jerrybuilt",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jerrybuilt",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jerrybuilds",
        "2": "jerrybuilding",
        "3": "jerrybuilt"
      },
      "expansion": "jerrybuild (third-person singular simple present jerrybuilds, present participle jerrybuilding, simple past and past participle jerrybuilt)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "jerryrig"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "66 18 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 154–5",
          "text": "It was a queer-looking hovel, built of galvanised iron and kerosene-cans and bark and saplings and bamboo, according to no definite plan, and obviously, to knowing eyes, by one of those masters of the craft of jerry-building […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Barbara Hardy, chapter 2, in Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination, London: Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 49",
          "text": "If we look at some of the stories of R. D. Laing's patients in The Politics of Experience it looks as if schizophrenia jerrybuilds a shaky structure of passion and freedom which depends for existence on negation of control and conscious scruple.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, John Vernon, chapter III, in A Book of Reasons, New York: Houghton Mifflin, page 110",
          "text": "Evolution, for example, isn't rational—and it jerry-builds our bodies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jerry White, A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century, Harvard University Press, published 2013, Part One, Chapter I, p. 28",
          "text": "Little wonder that corners were cut, bad materials made do for good and jerry-building was one of the curses of the age.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials."
      ],
      "id": "en-jerrybuild-en-verb-S1po5~eJ",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse."
      ],
      "id": "en-jerrybuild-en-verb-MSbyuiFG"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To repair a structure in a sloppy or unsafe manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-jerrybuild-en-verb-MFc4x7AM"
    }
  ],
  "word": "jerrybuild"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jerrybuilds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jerrybuilding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jerrybuilt",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jerrybuilt",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jerrybuilds",
        "2": "jerrybuilding",
        "3": "jerrybuilt"
      },
      "expansion": "jerrybuild (third-person singular simple present jerrybuilds, present participle jerrybuilding, simple past and past participle jerrybuilt)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "jerryrig"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 154–5",
          "text": "It was a queer-looking hovel, built of galvanised iron and kerosene-cans and bark and saplings and bamboo, according to no definite plan, and obviously, to knowing eyes, by one of those masters of the craft of jerry-building […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Barbara Hardy, chapter 2, in Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination, London: Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 49",
          "text": "If we look at some of the stories of R. D. Laing's patients in The Politics of Experience it looks as if schizophrenia jerrybuilds a shaky structure of passion and freedom which depends for existence on negation of control and conscious scruple.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, John Vernon, chapter III, in A Book of Reasons, New York: Houghton Mifflin, page 110",
          "text": "Evolution, for example, isn't rational—and it jerry-builds our bodies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jerry White, A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century, Harvard University Press, published 2013, Part One, Chapter I, p. 28",
          "text": "Little wonder that corners were cut, bad materials made do for good and jerry-building was one of the curses of the age.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To repair a structure in a sloppy or unsafe manner."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jerrybuild"
}