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{ "etymology_text": "From the idea of going over something once.", "forms": [ { "form": "once-overs", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "once-over (plural once-overs)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "hypernyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0", "word": "lookover" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "_dis1": "0 0", "word": "look-see" }, { "_dis1": "0 0", "word": "spot check" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "I gave the room a once-over with the mop.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "A quick clean or polish." ], "id": "en-once-over-en-noun-AuR8IaI~", "links": [ [ "clean", "clean" ], [ "polish", "polish" ] ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "19 81", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "My GP gave me the once-over and said it was merely a cold.", "type": "example" }, { "text": "I'll give it a once-over for free, but a proper look will cost you.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing", "text": "The dear old room was just as I'd left it, nothing changed, and my first move, of course, was to procure another chair and give the top of the armoire the once-over. It was a set-back to find that the cow-creamer wasn't there.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing", "text": "Giving the wench the once-over as she entered, I found myself well able to understand why Bobbie on observing her entangled with [her fiancé] had exploded with so loud a report.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A cursory inspection or survey." ], "id": "en-once-over-en-noun-8L3Q7LhH", "links": [ [ "cursory", "cursory" ], [ "inspection", "inspection" ], [ "survey", "survey" ] ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "1 99", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "pregleždane nabǎrzo", "sense": "a cursory inspection", "word": "преглеждане набързо" }, { "_dis1": "1 99", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "poverxnostnyj osmotr", "sense": "a cursory inspection", "word": "поверхностный осмотр" } ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0", "word": "once over" } ], "word": "once-over" }
{ "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns" ], "etymology_text": "From the idea of going over something once.", "forms": [ { "form": "once-overs", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "once-over (plural once-overs)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "hypernyms": [ { "word": "lookover" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "look-see" }, { "word": "spot check" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "I gave the room a once-over with the mop.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "A quick clean or polish." ], "links": [ [ "clean", "clean" ], [ "polish", "polish" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "My GP gave me the once-over and said it was merely a cold.", "type": "example" }, { "text": "I'll give it a once-over for free, but a proper look will cost you.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing", "text": "The dear old room was just as I'd left it, nothing changed, and my first move, of course, was to procure another chair and give the top of the armoire the once-over. It was a set-back to find that the cow-creamer wasn't there.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing", "text": "Giving the wench the once-over as she entered, I found myself well able to understand why Bobbie on observing her entangled with [her fiancé] had exploded with so loud a report.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A cursory inspection or survey." ], "links": [ [ "cursory", "cursory" ], [ "inspection", "inspection" ], [ "survey", "survey" ] ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "once over" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "pregleždane nabǎrzo", "sense": "a cursory inspection", "word": "преглеждане набързо" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "poverxnostnyj osmotr", "sense": "a cursory inspection", "word": "поверхностный осмотр" } ], "word": "once-over" }
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