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},
"expansion": "to begin with (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
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"_dis": "100 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "To begin with, we moved the furniture out of the room."
}
],
"glosses": [
"initially, at first, at the very start"
],
"id": "en-to_begin_with-en-adv-iqOW7bVb",
"links": [
[
"initially",
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],
[
"at first",
"at first"
]
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"sense": "at the very start",
"word": "at first"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 44",
"word": "initially"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 44",
"word": "to start with"
}
],
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"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dlja načala",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "для начала"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "za početak"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "till att börja med"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "inledningsvis"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "başta olmak üzere"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "en başından"
}
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "Double my wages? You weren't paying me anything to begin with!"
}
],
"glosses": [
"in the first place"
],
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"in the first place",
"in the first place"
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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "11 89",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in the first place",
"word": "ensinnäkään"
},
{
"_dis1": "11 89",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in the first place",
"word": "alun alkujaankaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "11 89",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "in the first place",
"word": "za početak"
},
{
"_dis1": "11 89",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "in the first place",
"word": "na početku"
},
{
"_dis1": "11 89",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in the first place",
"word": "till att börja med"
}
]
}
],
"word": "to begin with"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English uncomparable adverbs"
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{
"examples": [
{
"text": "To begin with, we moved the furniture out of the room."
}
],
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"initially, at first, at the very start"
],
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"initially"
],
[
"at first",
"at first"
]
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},
{
"examples": [
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"text": "Double my wages? You weren't paying me anything to begin with!"
}
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"in the first place"
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"sense": "at the very start",
"word": "at first"
},
{
"word": "initially"
},
{
"word": "to start with"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dlja načala",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "для начала"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "za početak"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "till att börja med"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "inledningsvis"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "başta olmak üzere"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "initially",
"word": "en başından"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in the first place",
"word": "ensinnäkään"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in the first place",
"word": "alun alkujaankaan"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "in the first place",
"word": "za početak"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "in the first place",
"word": "na početku"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in the first place",
"word": "till att börja med"
}
],
"word": "to begin with"
}
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