See spoor on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10:",
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"ref": "2023 October 10, HarryBlank, “The Cruelest Fight”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-08-31:",
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"text": "→ Papiamentu: spor, spoor"
}
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"2": "ine-pro",
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"name": "der"
}
],
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"spoor"
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"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "noun",
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"langcode": "nl",
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"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"feminine"
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{
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"spore"
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[
"spore",
"spore"
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"feminine"
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{
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"2": "noun"
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"source": "w"
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{
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"alternative"
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"Dutch feminine nouns",
"Dutch lemmas",
"Dutch neuter nouns",
"Dutch nouns",
"Dutch nouns with plural in -en",
"Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Dutch terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sperH-",
"Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch",
"Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch",
"Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Dutch/oːr",
"nl:Rail transportation"
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"word": "opsporen"
},
{
"word": "smalspoor"
},
{
"word": "spoorbaan"
},
{
"word": "spoorloos"
},
{
"word": "spoorweg"
},
{
"word": "treinspoor"
},
{
"word": "voetspoor"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "spoor"
},
"expansion": "Afrikaans: spoor",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "spoor",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: spoor",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fng",
"2": "spor",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Fanagalo: spor",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "sipolo",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Zulu: sipolo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Zulu: sipolo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-jdt",
"2": "spôr"
},
"expansion": "Jersey Dutch: spôr",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "dcr",
"2": "spoor"
},
"expansion": "Negerhollands: spoor",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "pey",
"2": "sepoor"
},
"expansion": "Petjo: sepoor",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
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"1": "jvn",
"2": "sepur",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
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{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "sepur",
"bor": "1",
"t": "railway track"
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "jv",
"2": "ꦱꦼꦥꦸꦂ",
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}
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{
"args": {
"1": "pap",
"2": "spor",
"bor": "1"
},
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"2": "dum",
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sperH-"
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{
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[
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"Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
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{
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{
"word": "sporendoos"
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{
"word": "sporenhoop"
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{
"word": "sporenkievit"
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{
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{
"ref": "1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:",
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},
{
"ref": "1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10:",
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"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 5, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:",
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{
"ref": "2023 October 10, HarryBlank, “The Cruelest Fight”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-08-31:",
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[
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[
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[
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"ipa": "/spʊɹ/",
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"ipa": "/spɔɹ/",
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{
"ipa": "/spuːɹ/",
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
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"word": "spoor"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"tags": [
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"word": "stopa"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "trail left by an animal",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "stopy"
},
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"sense": "trail left by an animal",
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],
"word": "otisky"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "trail left by an animal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Fußspur"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "trail left by an animal",
"word": "lábnyom"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shūseki",
"sense": "trail left by an animal",
"word": "臭跡"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "trail left by an animal",
"word": "makatea"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "trail left by an animal",
"tags": [
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"word": "Spoa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "trail left by an animal",
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],
"word": "trop"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "trail left by an animal",
"word": "rastro"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "trail left by an animal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "spår"
}
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"word": "spoor"
}
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"name": "bor"
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"To track (an animal) by following its spoor."
],
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"(transitive) To track (an animal) by following its spoor."
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"ipa": "/spɔː/",
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]
},
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"ipa": "/spʊɹ/",
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"ipa": "/spuːɹ/",
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"word": "spore"
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