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"ref": "2011, James D. Hornfischer, “28: Into the Light”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, retrieved 2022-11-21, pages 273–274",
"text": "His gunnery officer, Lieutenant Commander William R. D. Nickelson, Jr., preferred to respond with other hardware. At once he shouted into his headset mike: \"Fuck that! Open fire!\" His assistant, Lloyd Mustin, was recording accurate ranges from the narrowcasting fire-control radar and didn't need help from other wavelengths. \"Action port. Illuminating ship is target,\" he instructed his gun captains. Mustin, controlling the after trio of five-inch mounts, and Nickelson slewed their directors onto the lights and opened fire immediately.",
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"To rotate or turn something about its axis."
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"sense": "to rotate or turn something about its axis",
"word": "draaien"
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"sense": "to rotate or turn something about its axis",
"word": "girar"
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"sense": "to rotate or turn something about its axis",
"word": "fazer girar"
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"sense": "to rotate or turn something about its axis",
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"ref": "2020 July 15, Drachinifel, 1:04:58 from the start, in The Battle of Jutland - Clash of the Titans - Part 1 (Beatty vs Hipper), archived from the original on 2022-10-15",
"text": "As the 5th Battle Squadron comes into the range of the High Seas Fleet, Admiral Evan-Thomas, who, so far, has dutifully followed Beatty's orders (or lack of them), has finally had just about enough. He can see the danger, plain as day, as the High Seas Fleet's leading elements open up a barrage with every gun they possess. He therefore issues his own squadron orders to expect to have to make sudden course changes and to follow his lead, before ordering the wheel hard over and slewing Barham around. Valiant and Warspite move to follow, replicating the \"turn in succession\" order, whilst the trailing HMS Malaya sees the oncoming danger and prepares to turn as soon as it possibly can without crashing into Warspite.",
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"(intransitive) To pivot."
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"_dis1": "1 2 3 86 6 2 2",
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"sense": "to pivot",
"word": "omwentelen"
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"To skid."
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"(intransitive) To skid."
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"text": "The single line was slewed onto the disused up formation to make way for the future redoubling.",
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"ref": "2022 November 16, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Wales”, in RAIL, number 970, page 27",
"text": "Treforest: The track has been slewed to create space for the new island station platform at Treforest Estate, on the Cardiff-Merthyr line.",
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"(transitive, rail transport) To move something (usually a railway line) sideways."
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"(transitive, British, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit."
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"_dis1": "0 0 1 1 1 0 96",
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit",
"word": "iemand te kakken zetten"
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"ref": "1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman",
"text": "The prairie round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews.",
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"ref": "2021 February 24, Philip Haigh, “A shift from cars: Scotland's railways are friends of electric!”, in RAIL, number 915, page 30",
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"sense": "a large amount",
"word": "een groot aantal"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Menge"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ganze Reihe"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "a large amount",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "a large amount",
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"tags": [
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"word": "ма́сса"
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"code": "es",
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"code": "sv",
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a large amount",
"word": "een groot aantal"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Menge"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Reihe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ganze Reihe"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "amontoado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a large amount",
"word": "montão"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mássa",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ма́сса"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "montón"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "massa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mängd"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a large amount",
"word": "đống"
}
],
"word": "slew"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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