See ambit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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65
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"ref": "1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:",
"text": "Nickle shrugged his shoulders to indicate the inexpressible ambit of Mr. Bronsky's obvious shortcomings.",
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86
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"ref": "1913, Gilbert Parker, “‘The Alpine Fellow’”, in The Judgment House […], uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC, book IV, pages 412–413:",
"text": "He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe; but the sharp reaping-hook had passed him by.",
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"The area or sphere of control and influence of something."
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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"(by extension) The area or sphere of control and influence of something."
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"(archaic) The boundary around a building, town, region, etc."
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]
},
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],
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"(archaic, rare) The circumference of something circular; also, an arc; a circuit, an orbit."
],
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"rare"
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},
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],
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"Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place."
],
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"ambits"
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"building#Noun"
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[
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"(obsolete) Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place."
],
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"english": "of a house",
"translation": "of a house",
"word": "curtilage"
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "obikolka",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"word": "обиколка"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "granica",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"word": "граница"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "okrǎženie",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"word": "окръжение"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "portée"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Abgrenzung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Begrenzung"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Bereichsgrenze"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grenze"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Umfriedung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Umgrenzung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"word": "kiterjedés"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ambito"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "âmbito"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "boundary around a building, town, region, etc.",
"word": "ámbito"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "extent of actions, thoughts, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "âmbito"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "sfera na vlijanie",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"word": "сфера на влияние"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"word": "àmbit"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"word": "zona d'influència"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "champ"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ámbito"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Einflussbereich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
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"word": "Einflussgebiet"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Einflusssphäre"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Geltungsbereich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Herrschaftsbereich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Machtbereich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Wirkungsbereich"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"word": "hatáskör"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "pt",
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"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "âmbito"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "esfera"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ámbito"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "area or sphere of control and influence of something",
"word": "zona de influencia"
}
],
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}
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