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"weigh"
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]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɔɪz/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔɪz"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-poise.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-poise.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-poise.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-poise.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "poyz"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used",
"word": "készenlétbe helyez"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used",
"word": "készenlétben tart"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used",
"word": "balançar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used",
"word": "pesar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used",
"word": "equilibrar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izgotavlivatʹsja",
"sense": "to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used",
"word": "изготавливаться"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "uravnovesjavam",
"sense": "to keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced",
"word": "уравновесявам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "držet v rovnováze"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vyvážit"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced",
"word": "egyensúlyoz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced",
"word": "kiegyensúlyoz"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced",
"word": "equilibrar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced",
"word": "balançar"
}
],
"word": "poise"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"Old French feminine nouns",
"Old French lemmas",
"Old French nouns"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "poise",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: poise",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: poise"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "poise oblique singular or",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "poises",
"tags": [
"oblique",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "poise",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "poise oblique singular, f (oblique plural poises, nominative singular poise, nominative plural poises)",
"name": "fro-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"weight"
],
"links": [
[
"weight",
"weight"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a unit of measure of unknown value (which presumably varied because of the technology of the time)"
],
"links": [
[
"unit",
"unit"
],
[
"measure",
"measure"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"Anglo-Norman"
],
"word": "peise"
}
],
"word": "poise"
}
{
"categories": [
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese non-lemma forms",
"Portuguese verb forms"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "poise",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "poisar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of poisar:\n## first/third-person singular present subjunctive\n## third-person singular imperative",
"first/third-person singular present subjunctive"
],
"links": [
[
"poisar",
"poisar#Portuguese"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"inflection of poisar:\n"
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "poisar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of poisar:\n## first/third-person singular present subjunctive\n## third-person singular imperative",
"third-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"poisar",
"poisar#Portuguese"
]
],
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"inflection of poisar:\n"
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "poise"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'poise oblique singular or', originally 'poise oblique singular or f'",
"path": [
"poise"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "poise",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'poise oblique singular or', originally 'poise oblique singular or f'",
"path": [
"poise"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "poise",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ['feminine', 'canonical']: 'poise oblique singular or' in 'poise oblique singular, f (oblique plural poises, nominative singular poise, nominative plural poises)'",
"path": [
"poise"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "poise",
"trace": ""
}
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