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{
"ref": "2004, Marc Saltzman, Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts",
"text": "We also have added a new game control called the \"defensive strafe,\" in which the user can press a button and stay facing forward.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A sideways movement without turning."
],
"links": [
[
"video game",
"video game"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(video games) A sideways movement without turning."
],
"topics": [
"video-games"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/stɹeɪf/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/stɹɑf/",
"tags": [
"also",
"uncommon"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/stɹæf/",
"tags": [
"also",
"uncommon"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪf"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-strafe.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strafe.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strafe.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strafe.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-strafe.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "an attack from a low-flying aircraft",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mitragliamento"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "an attack from a low-flying aircraft",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "mitraljiranje"
}
],
"word": "strafe"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "strafe",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German 2-syllable words",
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"German non-lemma forms",
"German terms with IPA pronunciation",
"German terms with audio links",
"German verb forms"
],
"glosses": [
"first-person singular and imperative of strafen"
],
"links": [
[
"strafen",
"strafen#German"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃtʁaːfə/"
},
{
"audio": "De-strafe.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/De-strafe.ogg/De-strafe.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/De-strafe.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "strafe"
}
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