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cause/English/noun

3: cause/English/noun: invalid uppercase tag Received-Pronunciation not in or uppercase_tags: {"antonyms": [{"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "consequence"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "effect"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "result"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "hindrance"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "impediment"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "preventer"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "prohibitor"}], "categories": ["English conjunctions", "English control verbs", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with homophones", "English uncountable nouns", "English verbs", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 10 entries", "Pages with entries", "Requests for review of Ido translations", "Requests for review of Mandarin translations", "Requests for review of Telugu translations", "Rhymes:English/ɔːz", "Rhymes:English/ɔːz/1 syllable", 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translations", "Terms with West Frisian translations", "Terms with Zazaki translations", "Terms with Zulu translations", "en:Philanthropy"], "derived": [{"word": "all-cause"}, {"word": "because"}, {"word": "bycause"}, {"word": "by-cause"}, {"word": "causal"}, {"word": "causality"}, {"word": "causative"}, {"word": "cause and effect"}, {"word": "cause celebre"}, {"word": "causeful"}, {"word": "causeless"}, {"word": "cause of action"}, {"word": "cause of death"}, {"tags": ["rhetoric"], "word": "common cause"}, {"word": "concause"}, {"word": "countercause"}, {"word": "efficient cause"}, {"word": "external cause"}, {"word": "final cause"}, {"word": "first cause"}, {"topics": ["law"], "word": "for cause"}, {"word": "forcause"}, {"word": "formal cause"}, {"word": "good cause"}, {"word": "hour of cause"}, {"word": "intervening cause"}, {"word": "just cause"}, {"word": "lost cause"}, {"word": "make common cause"}, {"word": "material cause"}, {"word": "no one should be judge in his own cause"}, 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{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "chose", "t1": "(law) a thing; personal property"}, "expansion": "Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”)", "name": "doublet"}, {"args": {"1": "ang", "2": "intinga"}, "expansion": "Old English intinga", "name": "ncog"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "causen"}, "expansion": "Middle English causen", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "causer"}, "expansion": "Old French causer", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ML.", "3": "causāre"}, "expansion": "Medieval Latin causāre", "name": "der"}], "etymology_text": "* From Middle English cause (also with the sense of “a thing”), borrowed from Old French cause (“a cause, a thing”), borrowed from Latin causa (“reason, sake, cause”), from Proto-Italic *kaussā, which is of unknown origin. Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”). See accuse, excuse, recuse, ruse. Displaced native Old English intinga.\n* From Middle English causen, Old French causer and Medieval Latin causāre.", "forms": [{"form": "causes", "tags": ["plural"]}], "head_templates": [{"args": {"1": "~"}, "expansion": "cause (countable and uncountable, plural causes)", "name": "en-noun"}], "hyponyms": [{"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "first cause"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "first mover"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "prime mover"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "primum mobile"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "tags": ["figuratively"], "word": "fountainhead"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "tags": ["figuratively"], "word": "mainspring"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "tags": ["figuratively"], "word": "springhead"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "tags": ["figuratively"], "word": "wellhead"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "tags": ["figuratively"], "word": "wellspring"}], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [{"word": "effect"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "agency"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "completion"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "finish"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "outcome"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "because"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "because of"}, {"source": "Thesaurus:cause", "word": "beginning"}], "senses": [{"antonyms": [{"word": "effect#Noun"}, {"word": "cause"}], "categories": ["English countable nouns", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples"], "examples": [{"text": "They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding.", "type": "example"}, {"ref": "1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:", "text": "We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs,\nAs well appeareth by the cauſe you come,\nNamely, to appeale each other of high treaſon.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:", "text": "He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result."], "links": [["source", "source"], ["reason", "reason"]], "qualifier": "typically of adverse results", "raw_glosses": ["(countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result."], "synonyms": [{"word": "cause"}], "tags": ["countable", "often", "with-of"]}, {"categories": ["English terms with usage examples", "English uncountable nouns"], "examples": [{"text": "There is no cause for alarm.", "type": "example"}, {"text": "The end of the war was a cause for celebration.", "type": "example"}, {"text": "He has no cause to do that.", "type": "example"}], "glosses": ["Sufficient reason."], "raw_glosses": ["(uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason."], "raw_tags": ["with for and a bare noun"], "synonyms": [{"word": "grounds"}, {"word": "justification"}], "tags": ["especially", "uncountable"]}, {"categories": ["English countable nouns", "English terms with quotations"], "examples": [{"ref": "c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:", "text": "God befriend us, as our cause is just.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:", "text": "The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart):", "text": "I'm not fighting for anything anymore, except myself. I'm the only cause I'm interested in.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1999, John McCain, Faith of My Fathers, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 348:", "text": "There is much to regret about America's failure in Vietnam. The reasons are etched in black marble on the Washington Mall. 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{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "chose", "t1": "(law) a thing; personal property"}, "expansion": "Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”)", "name": "doublet"}, {"args": {"1": "ang", "2": "intinga"}, "expansion": "Old English intinga", "name": "ncog"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "causen"}, "expansion": "Middle English causen", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "causer"}, "expansion": "Old French causer", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ML.", "3": "causāre"}, "expansion": "Medieval Latin causāre", "name": "der"}], "etymology_text": "* From Middle English cause (also with the sense of “a thing”), borrowed from Old French cause (“a cause, a thing”), borrowed from Latin causa (“reason, sake, cause”), from Proto-Italic *kaussā, which is of unknown origin. Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”). See accuse, excuse, recuse, ruse. 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"sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causanza"}, {"code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "príčina"}, {"code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "vzrok"}, {"code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "razlog"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "orsak"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "grund"}, {"code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "word": "kawsa"}, {"code": "tg", "lang": "Tajik", 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{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "chose", "t1": "(law) a thing; personal property"}, "expansion": "Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”)", "name": "doublet"}, {"args": {"1": "ang", "2": "intinga"}, "expansion": "Old English intinga", "name": "ncog"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "causen"}, "expansion": "Middle English causen", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "causer"}, "expansion": "Old French causer", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ML.", "3": "causāre"}, "expansion": "Medieval Latin causāre", "name": "der"}], "etymology_text": "* From Middle English cause (also with the sense of “a thing”), borrowed from Old French cause (“a cause, a thing”), borrowed from Latin causa (“reason, sake, cause”), from Proto-Italic *kaussā, which is of unknown origin. Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”). See accuse, excuse, recuse, ruse. 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"sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causanza"}, {"code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "príčina"}, {"code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "vzrok"}, {"code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "razlog"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "orsak"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "grund"}, {"code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "word": "kawsa"}, {"code": "tg", "lang": "Tajik", 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["feminine"], "word": "מַטָּרָה"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "lakṣya", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "word": "लक्ष्य"}, {"code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "málstaður"}, {"code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "taigi", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "word": "大義"}, {"code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "ne", "lang": "Nepali", "roman": "gol", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "word": "गोल"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "cauză"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "délo", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": 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translations", "Terms with West Frisian translations", "Terms with Zazaki translations", "Terms with Zulu translations", "en:Philanthropy"], "derived": [{"word": "all-cause"}, {"word": "because"}, {"word": "bycause"}, {"word": "by-cause"}, {"word": "causal"}, {"word": "causality"}, {"word": "causative"}, {"word": "cause and effect"}, {"word": "cause celebre"}, {"word": "causeful"}, {"word": "causeless"}, {"word": "cause of action"}, {"word": "cause of death"}, {"tags": ["rhetoric"], "word": "common cause"}, {"word": "concause"}, {"word": "countercause"}, {"word": "efficient cause"}, {"word": "external cause"}, {"word": "final cause"}, {"word": "first cause"}, {"topics": ["law"], "word": "for cause"}, {"word": "forcause"}, {"word": "formal cause"}, {"word": "good cause"}, {"word": "hour of cause"}, {"word": "intervening cause"}, {"word": "just cause"}, {"word": "lost cause"}, {"word": "make common cause"}, {"word": "material cause"}, {"word": "no one should be judge in his own cause"}, 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{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "chose", "t1": "(law) a thing; personal property"}, "expansion": "Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”)", "name": "doublet"}, {"args": {"1": "ang", "2": "intinga"}, "expansion": "Old English intinga", "name": "ncog"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "causen"}, "expansion": "Middle English causen", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "causer"}, "expansion": "Old French causer", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ML.", "3": "causāre"}, "expansion": "Medieval Latin causāre", "name": "der"}], "etymology_text": "* From Middle English cause (also with the sense of “a thing”), borrowed from Old French cause (“a cause, a thing”), borrowed from Latin causa (“reason, sake, cause”), from Proto-Italic *kaussā, which is of unknown origin. Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”). See accuse, excuse, recuse, ruse. 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["feminine"], "word": "raison"}, {"code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "mizezi", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "word": "მიზეზი"}, {"code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "sapuʒveli", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "word": "საფუძველი"}, {"code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "Ursache"}, {"code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "Anlass"}, {"code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "Grund"}, {"code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "aitía", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "αιτία"}, {"code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "lógos", "sense": "source or 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"tags": ["masculine"], "word": "grunn"}, {"code": "oc", "lang": "Occitan", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "ang", "lang": "Old English", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "intinga"}, {"code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "sabab", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "word": "سبب"}, {"code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "przyczyna"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "cauză"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pričína", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "причи́на"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": 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"sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causanza"}, {"code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "príčina"}, {"code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "vzrok"}, {"code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "razlog"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "orsak"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "grund"}, {"code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "source or reason of an event or action", "word": "kawsa"}, {"code": "tg", "lang": "Tajik", 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{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "chose", "t1": "(law) a thing; personal property"}, "expansion": "Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”)", "name": "doublet"}, {"args": {"1": "ang", "2": "intinga"}, "expansion": "Old English intinga", "name": "ncog"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "causen"}, "expansion": "Middle English causen", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "causer"}, "expansion": "Old French causer", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ML.", "3": "causāre"}, "expansion": "Medieval Latin causāre", "name": "der"}], "etymology_text": "* From Middle English cause (also with the sense of “a thing”), borrowed from Old French cause (“a cause, a thing”), borrowed from Latin causa (“reason, sake, cause”), from Proto-Italic *kaussā, which is of unknown origin. Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”). See accuse, excuse, recuse, ruse. 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["feminine"], "word": "מַטָּרָה"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "lakṣya", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "word": "लक्ष्य"}, {"code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "málstaður"}, {"code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "taigi", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "word": "大義"}, {"code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "ne", "lang": "Nepali", "roman": "gol", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "word": "गोल"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "cauză"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "délo", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "де́ло"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "stremlenije", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "стремление"}, {"code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "adhbhar"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["Cyrillic", "masculine"], "word": "ства̑р"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["Cyrillic", "masculine"], "word": "прѝнцӣп"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["Cyrillic", "masculine"], "word": "ци̑љ"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["Cyrillic", "feminine"], "word": "свр̀ха"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["Roman", "masculine"], "word": "stvȃr"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["Roman", "masculine"], "word": "prìncīp"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["Roman", "masculine"], "word": "cȋlj"}, {"code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["Roman", "feminine"], "word": "svr̀ha"}, {"code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "stvar"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "causa"}, {"code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "správa", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "спра́ва"}, {"code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "goal, aim, principle", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "achos"}], "word": "cause"}

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