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"extra": "of police, etc",
"word": "subinspector"
}
],
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"English initialisms"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "India's first transgender SI"
}
],
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"Initialism of subinspector. (of police, etc)"
],
"links": [
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"subinspector",
"subinspector#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"countable",
"initialism",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
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{
"english": "statutory instrument, chiefly in citation",
"word": "S.I."
}
],
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"SI"
],
"word": "SI"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English proper nouns",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncountable nouns",
"en:Fan fiction",
"en:Metric system"
],
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"args": {
"1": "-"
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"expansion": "SI (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
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"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "sacroiliac"
}
],
"categories": [
"English initialisms",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Anatomy",
"en:Medicine"
],
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{
"text": "SI joint",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Initialism of sacroiliac."
],
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[
"anatomy",
"anatomy"
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[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
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"sacroiliac",
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]
],
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"(anatomy, medicine) Initialism of sacroiliac."
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
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"initialism",
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"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"SI"
],
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}
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