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"glosses": [
"Practising or siding with both parties."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Practising or siding with both parties."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English humorous terms"
],
"glosses": [
"Of a person, bisexual."
],
"links": [
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"bisexual",
"bisexual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(humorous) Of a person, bisexual."
],
"tags": [
"humorous"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Michelangelo was a very ambidextrous artist, producing sculptures and frescoes with equal ability.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1884, The British Trade Journal and Export World, page 558:",
"text": "For years, by every possible device, we have been raising the prices of our agricultural products against the foreign buyers […] by every device known to the ambidextrous tradesman and financier. The result is that we have raised up other and unexpected competitors in the markets of the world.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1998, Alan Spiegel, James Agee and the Legend of Himself: A Critical Study, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 12:",
"text": "In a footnote, these admirers will often bemoan Agee as a Renaissance or at least ambidextrous artist in an age of specialization, a vast and turbulent ocean syphoned off through a garden hose; not just a novelist manque but also a frustrated […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Pamela Lillian Valemont, Beauty Queen Murder - Allison Baden-Clay, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 49:",
"text": "He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were spent yachting or canoeing or with his brothers. By 1903, Baden-Powell's military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a best-seller,[…]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Exceptionally skillful; adept in more than one medium, genre, style, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"skillful",
"skillful"
],
[
"medium",
"medium"
],
[
"genre",
"genre"
],
[
"style",
"style"
]
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˌæm.biˈdɛk.stɹəs/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˌæm.bɪˈdɛk.stɹəs/",
"tags": [
"US"
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛkstɹəs"
}
],
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{
"word": "both-handed"
},
{
"word": "either-handed"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "śobbośaci",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "সব্যসাচী"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ambidextre"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "雙手靈巧的"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shuāngshǒu língqiǎo de",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "双手灵巧的"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "ambidekstral"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "tweehandig"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "ambaŭmana"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "mõlemakäelisus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "molempikätinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ambidextre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "beidhändig"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "amfidéxios",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αμφιδέξιος"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "savyasācī",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "सव्यसाची"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "kétkezes"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "ambidextra"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "ambidekstrus"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "comhdheas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "ambidestro"
},
{
"alt": "りょうてきき",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ryōtekiki no",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "両手利きの"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "çep wrraste",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "چەپ وڕاستە"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "dwicekat"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "co-yesh"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "co-yesh er dagh laue"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oburęczny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "ambidestro"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "ambidextru"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vladéjuščij odinákovo xorošó obéimi rukámi",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "владе́ющий одина́ково хорошо́ обе́ими рука́ми"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "ambidextro"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "dubbelhänt"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "ambidexter"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "ambidextriös"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "tvehänt"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having equal ability in both hands",
"word": "bådhänt"
}
],
"word": "ambidextrous"
}
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