"to-and-fros" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "to and fros",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "noun form",
        "head": "to-and-fros"
      },
      "expansion": "to-and-fros",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, E. Holland, Health in the nursery and how to feed and clothe a child with observations ..., page 41:",
          "text": "When you swing a child move it in short to-and-fros at first, and do not indulge in any high or rapid swings until the child is well used to the movement, ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Derek Bickerton, Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans, page 32:",
          "text": "It's fascinating to watch these cyclic to-and-fros in science, like the rise and fall of hemlines, but more stimulating, intellectually at least.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "to-and-fro"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural of to-and-fro"
      ],
      "id": "en-to-and-fros-en-noun-KNHORsd6",
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        [
          "to-and-fro",
          "to-and-fro#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "to-and-fros"
}

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    {
      "form": "to and fros",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English noun forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        {
          "ref": "1875, E. Holland, Health in the nursery and how to feed and clothe a child with observations ..., page 41:",
          "text": "When you swing a child move it in short to-and-fros at first, and do not indulge in any high or rapid swings until the child is well used to the movement, ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Derek Bickerton, Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans, page 32:",
          "text": "It's fascinating to watch these cyclic to-and-fros in science, like the rise and fall of hemlines, but more stimulating, intellectually at least.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        {
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        "plural of to-and-fro"
      ],
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          "to-and-fro",
          "to-and-fro#English"
        ]
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    }
  ],
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}