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Kathleen Humphreys, “Just To Be Held”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 29, page 4:", "text": "I'd give my state pay for the next year just to be held for a few minutes without fear of being put in DC", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 238, 240 ], [ 474, 476 ], [ 542, 544 ] ], "ref": "2010 June 16, Correctional Institution Inspection Committee (Ohio), Inspection and Evaluation of the Trumbull Correctional Institute, page 50:", "text": "Disciplinary Control is a form of segregation in which inmates who have been found guilty of an institutional rule, pursuant to the Administrative Rule (AR) 5120-9-08, may be placed. Per the AR 5120-9-11, inmates can receive placement in DC for 15 days as a result of a single rule violation or a series of rule violations arising from one event. An inmate can also receive an additional 15 days for two or more unrelated violations or for any violations committed while in DC. However, no inmate shall spend more than 30 consecutive days in DC.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Initialism of disciplinary control." ], "links": [ [ "disciplinary control", "disciplinary control#English" ] ], "qualifier": "prison", "raw_glosses": [ "(prison) Initialism of disciplinary control." ], "tags": [ "abbreviation", "alt-of", "countable", "initialism", "uncountable" ] }, { "alt_of": [ { "word": "distribution center" } ], "categories": [ "English initialisms", "en:Business" ], "glosses": [ "Initialism of distribution center." ], "links": [ [ "business", "business" ], [ "distribution", "distribution#English" ], [ "center", "center#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(business) Initialism of distribution center." ], "tags": [ "abbreviation", "alt-of", "countable", "initialism", "uncountable" ], "topics": [ "business" ] } ], "translations": [ { "code": "nl", "english": "What can be measured over an open circuit or a resistance", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "direct current", "word": "gelijkspanning" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "direct current", "word": "tasavirta" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "direct current", "word": "arus searah" }, { "alt": "ちょくりゅう", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "chokuryū", "sense": "direct current", "word": "直流" }, { "alt": "直流", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "jingnyu", "sense": "direct current", "word": "직류" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "postojánnyj tok", "sense": "direct current", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "постоя́нный ток" } ], "word": "DC" } { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English adverbs", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English proper nouns", "English uncomparable adjectives", "English uncountable nouns", "English verbs", "English words without vowels", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 4 entries", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Dutch 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"diagonally to the center" } ], "categories": [ "English initialisms", "en:Dance" ], "glosses": [ "Initialism of diagonally to the center." ], "links": [ [ "dance", "dance#Noun" ], [ "diagonally", "diagonally#English" ], [ "center", "center#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(dance) Initialism of diagonally to the center." ], "tags": [ "abbreviation", "alt-of", "initialism" ], "topics": [ "dance", "dancing", "hobbies", "lifestyle", "sports" ] } ], "word": "DC" } { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English adverbs", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English proper nouns", "English uncomparable adjectives", "English uncountable nouns", "English verbs", "English words without vowels", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 4 entries", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Dutch translations", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with Indonesian translations", "Terms with Japanese translations", "Terms 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"related": [ { "word": "Llanarmon DC" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "en:Computing" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 37, 42 ], [ 155, 159 ] ], "ref": "2012 February 3, \"ToolPackinMama\", “Random DC to Login since patch”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):", "text": "Since the patch I have been randomly DCing and it's at times completely game-breaking. 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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.