See spanner on Wiktionary
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"id2": "agent noun"
},
"expansion": "span + -er",
"name": "affix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From span + -er.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spanners",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "spannering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "spannered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "spannered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spanner (third-person singular simple present spanners, present participle spannering, simple past and past participle spannered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To use a spanner; to fix with a spanner"
],
"links": [
[
"fix",
"fix"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "spăn'ə",
"note": "r",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈspæn.ə(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"enpr": "spăn'ər",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈspæn.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-spanner.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/32/En-us-spanner.ogg/En-us-spanner.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-us-spanner.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-spanner.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4c/En-au-spanner.ogg/En-au-spanner.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/En-au-spanner.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ænə(ɹ)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"spanner"
],
"word": "spanner"
}
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