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"sense": "strategy, tactic",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chwyt"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "strategy, tactic",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estratagema"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ulóvka",
"sense": "strategy, tactic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "уло́вка"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "strategy, tactic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "táctica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "strategy, tactic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "estrategia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "strategy, tactic",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "truco"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "strategy, tactic",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "trick"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "strategy, tactic",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "knep"
}
],
"word": "ploy"
}
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{
"word": "deploy"
}
],
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
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"2": "deploy"
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"name": "m"
}
],
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{
"form": "ploys",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ploying",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "ployed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ployed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "ploy (third-person singular simple present ploys, present participle ploying, simple past and past participle ployed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Military"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer",
"text": "Troops drawn up so as to show an extended front, with slight depth, are said to be deployed; when the depth is considerable and the front comparatively small, they are said to be in ployed formation.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"column",
"column"
],
[
"subdivision",
"subdivision"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision."
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/plɔɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔɪ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ploy.wav",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/eb/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ploy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ploy.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
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}
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"pos": "verb",
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"word": "ploi"
}
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"Sranan Tongo verbs"
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"ploi",
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"alternative"
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}
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