"make conversation" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "makes conversation",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "making conversation",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "made conversation",
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        "past"
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      "form": "made conversation",
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        "past"
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        "1": "make<,,made> conversation"
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Talking",
          "orig": "en:Talking",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 3, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:",
          "text": "They had their meals with Mr. Gibson and Molly, and were felt to be terribly in the way; Mr. Gibson not being a man who could make conversation, and hating the duty of talking under restraint.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1923, Max Brand, chapter 18, in The Quest of Lee Garrison, New York: Leisure Books, published 1999, page 135:",
          "text": "Lee felt that disaster lurked ahead, and he did his best to stave it off by making conversation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter, London: Heinemann, Part Two, Chapter 1, section 3, p. 208:",
          "text": "[…] mechanically like a hostess whose mind is elsewhere but who must make conversation with however uninteresting a guest, she said, ‘Pretty girl, jig jig, one pound.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn, New York: Scribner, published 2015, page 30:",
          "text": "One day, when a neighbour called and sat in the kitchen with them having tea, Eilis realized that her mother and Rose were doing everything to hide their feelings. The neighbour, almost casually, as a way of making conversation, said: “You’ll miss her when she's gone, I'd say.”",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To talk with someone out of courtesy, to pass time, or in an effort to engage with them socially."
      ],
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          "talk",
          "talk"
        ],
        [
          "courtesy",
          "courtesy"
        ],
        [
          "engage",
          "engage"
        ],
        [
          "socially",
          "socially"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "small talk"
        },
        {
          "word": "shoot the breeze"
        }
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to talk with someone out of courtesy",
          "word": "keskustella"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to talk with someone out of courtesy",
          "word": "jutella"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to talk with someone out of courtesy",
          "word": "rupatella"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to talk with someone out of courtesy",
          "word": "faire la conversation"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to talk with someone out of courtesy",
          "word": "fare conversazione"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "make conversation"
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      "form": "makes conversation",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "making conversation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made conversation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made conversation",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "small talk"
    },
    {
      "word": "shoot the breeze"
    }
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
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          "ref": "1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 3, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:",
          "text": "They had their meals with Mr. Gibson and Molly, and were felt to be terribly in the way; Mr. Gibson not being a man who could make conversation, and hating the duty of talking under restraint.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1923, Max Brand, chapter 18, in The Quest of Lee Garrison, New York: Leisure Books, published 1999, page 135:",
          "text": "Lee felt that disaster lurked ahead, and he did his best to stave it off by making conversation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter, London: Heinemann, Part Two, Chapter 1, section 3, p. 208:",
          "text": "[…] mechanically like a hostess whose mind is elsewhere but who must make conversation with however uninteresting a guest, she said, ‘Pretty girl, jig jig, one pound.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn, New York: Scribner, published 2015, page 30:",
          "text": "One day, when a neighbour called and sat in the kitchen with them having tea, Eilis realized that her mother and Rose were doing everything to hide their feelings. The neighbour, almost casually, as a way of making conversation, said: “You’ll miss her when she's gone, I'd say.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To talk with someone out of courtesy, to pass time, or in an effort to engage with them socially."
      ],
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        [
          "talk",
          "talk"
        ],
        [
          "courtesy",
          "courtesy"
        ],
        [
          "engage",
          "engage"
        ],
        [
          "socially",
          "socially"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to talk with someone out of courtesy",
      "word": "keskustella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to talk with someone out of courtesy",
      "word": "jutella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to talk with someone out of courtesy",
      "word": "rupatella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to talk with someone out of courtesy",
      "word": "faire la conversation"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to talk with someone out of courtesy",
      "word": "fare conversazione"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make conversation"
}