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"word": "migratory"
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dìngjū de",
"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
"word": "定居的"
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
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"_dis1": "53 3 40 2 2",
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
"word": "vähän liikkuva"
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"word": "sédentaire"
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
"word": "ortsgebunden"
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"_dis1": "53 3 40 2 2",
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
"word": "helyhez kötött"
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
"word": "sambil duduk"
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
"word": "neamhaistreach"
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"_dis1": "53 3 40 2 2",
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
"word": "sedentario"
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"roman": "jeongchakseong",
"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
"word": "정착성"
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"_dis1": "53 3 40 2 2",
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
"word": "stillesittende"
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"_dis1": "53 3 40 2 2",
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
"word": "osiadły"
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"sense": "not moving, not migratory",
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"ref": "1765 [1738], Bishop William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, page 220",
"text": "[…]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…]",
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"ref": "1844 October 3, Benjamin Disraeli, The Acquirement of Knowledge, An address delivered to the members of the Manchester Athenæum",
"text": "[…]that any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect, that the body as well as the mind should be cultivated[…]",
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"roman": "sedjašt",
"sense": "not moving much; sitting around",
"word": "седящ"
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"sense": "not moving much; sitting around",
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "stilzittend"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "not moving much; sitting around",
"word": "istuma-"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "not moving much; sitting around",
"word": "paikallaan pysyvä"
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"code": "de",
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "kathistikós",
"sense": "not moving much; sitting around",
"word": "καθιστικός"
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"sense": "not moving much; sitting around",
"word": "kyrrsetu-"
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"word": "hreyfingarleysis-"
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"code": "ko",
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"word": "앉은뱅이"
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"roman": "malopodvížnyj",
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"word": "малоподви́жный"
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"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "kūrcunnaṭṭu cēsēpani",
"sense": "not moving much; sitting around",
"word": "కూర్చున్నట్టు చేసేపని"
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"ref": "1711 December 22, Joseph Addison, “No. 255”, in The Spectator",
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"Caused by long sitting."
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"(obsolete) Caused by long sitting."
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"ref": "1998, Effect of acute exercise on skin potential in sedentaries and trained athletes.",
"text": "Endosomatic electrodermal activity (skin potential level and skin potential response) as an indirect indicator of sympathetic nervous system activity was measured in 35 sedentary male students and 22 trained athletes of two groups during resting and after an acute exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference of skin potential parameters between sedentaries and trained athletes before and after the acute exercise in bicycle ergometer.",
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"ref": "2012, Deleuze, The Dark Precursor: Dialectic, Structure, Being, page 37",
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"ref": "2015, Road to Beauty Day 8: Hairstyling Tips on the Road",
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