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"glosses": [
"Intermediate between two categories."
],
"links": [
[
"Intermediate",
"intermediate"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:intermediate"
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
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0,
4
]
],
"text": "ambilocal",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
4
]
],
"text": "ambivalent",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
4
]
],
"text": "ambiquitous",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternating between two categories."
],
"links": [
[
"Alternating",
"alternating"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:alternating"
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/æm.bi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/æm.bɪ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/æm.bə/"
},
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}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "both, on both sides",
"word": "ambi-"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "both, on both sides",
"word": "molempi-"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"roman": "du-",
"sense": "both, on both sides",
"word": "דו־"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "both, on both sides",
"word": "obu-"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "both, on both sides",
"word": "ambi-"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "both, on both sides",
"word": "ambi-"
}
],
"word": "ambi-"
}
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