"pelorus" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Reportedly the name of Hannibal's pilot.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "peloruses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pelorus (plural peloruses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:",
          "text": "Light clusters, clear, deep, on the face of the radio gear…fans up softly off the dial of the pelorus…spills out portholes onto the white river.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device used to take a bearing on a distant object."
      ],
      "id": "en-pelorus-en-noun-z1vQm9l1",
      "links": [
        [
          "device",
          "device"
        ],
        [
          "bearing",
          "bearing"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "device to take bearing",
          "word": "suuntimalevy"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "pelórus",
          "sense": "device to take bearing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "פֶּלוֹרוּס"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "device to take bearing",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "pejlskiva"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "english": "marine",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "device to take bearing",
          "word": "Taximètre"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Pelorus (instrument)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɪˈlɔːɹəs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pelorus"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Reportedly the name of Hannibal's pilot.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "peloruses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pelorus (plural peloruses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:",
          "text": "Light clusters, clear, deep, on the face of the radio gear…fans up softly off the dial of the pelorus…spills out portholes onto the white river.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device used to take a bearing on a distant object."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "device",
          "device"
        ],
        [
          "bearing",
          "bearing"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Pelorus (instrument)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɪˈlɔːɹəs/"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "device to take bearing",
      "word": "suuntimalevy"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "pelórus",
      "sense": "device to take bearing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "פֶּלוֹרוּס"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "device to take bearing",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "pejlskiva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "marine",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "device to take bearing",
      "word": "Taximètre"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pelorus"
}