See lacuna on Wiktionary
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"text": "Coordinate term: fovea"
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"text": "Long lacunae in this inscription make interpretation difficult.",
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"A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.",
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"ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, volume 41, number 7, →DOI, page 577:",
"text": "If the researcher cannot adequately hear a specific conversation due to its low volume or other acoustic interference, then this data point can be passed over with the understanding that such lacunae will be randomly distributed over the data collecting period.",
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"A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.",
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{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiāngxì",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
"word": "腔隙"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "same word for small and large openings",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
"word": "aukko"
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{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
"word": "lakuno"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kelên"
},
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "lakune"
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"code": "nn",
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"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "qiāngxì",
"sense": "space between cells",
"word": "腔隙"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "space between cells",
"word": "lakuuni"
},
{
"alt": "(в текст)",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "propusk",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"word": "пропуск"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"word": "aukko"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "κενό"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "χάσμα"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
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},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "language gap",
"word": "leksikaalinen aukko"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lexikalische Lücke"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kenó",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "κενό"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lacuna lexicala"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vacío léxico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "laguna léxica"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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{
"glosses": [
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{
"word": "lacūnōsus"
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"name": "desc"
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"name": "desc"
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"bor": "1"
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
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"1": "es",
"2": "laguna"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: laguna",
"name": "desc"
}
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{
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"ablative",
"singular"
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"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
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"english": "[…], whence the great hollows (the cavity of the torrent) sweat of a tepid moisture.",
"ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.117",
"text": "[…], unde cavae tepido sudant umore lacunae."
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"english": "[…], in such a way that they bear no holes nor protruding parts, […]",
"ref": "c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 7.1.4",
"text": "[…], ut ne habeant lacunas nec extantes tumulos, […]"
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[
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"english": "[…] and this unimportant fault, a simple defect of good reputation is repaid (made firm again) by the excuse of new-found circumstances to help a friend.",
"ref": "c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.3.23",
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[
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[
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"word": "lacūnātūra"
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"Antoine Meillet",
"fr:Jacques André"
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