"amorce" meaning in English

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      "form": "amorces",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Roy Jenkins, European Diary: 1977-1981, page 225",
          "text": "The anti-Americanism — or anti-Carterism, because Schmidt is basically pro-American — was in a way worrying, although if the dollar crisis is such an amorce for economic and monetary union, I am prepared, up to a point, to go along with it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Irène Assiba d' Almeida, Francophone African Women Writers, page 103",
          "text": "The word mourning is such an amorce, which prefigures the novel's denouement and also suggests that Jean's rejection of their daughter is tantamount to \"killing\" her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Alice Bennett, Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction, page 93",
          "text": "Penelope's reference to her future awareness of this grave mistake is half proleptic and half what Genette terms an amorce: the establishment of anticipation for the development of the plot through hints about future events.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hint about the future; an instance of foreshadowing."
      ],
      "id": "en-amorce-en-noun-yDsNysFv",
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          "hint",
          "hint"
        ],
        [
          "future",
          "future"
        ],
        [
          "foreshadowing",
          "foreshadowing"
        ]
      ]
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          "_dis": "5 35 6 6 1 10 30 8",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Great Britain Home Office, Explosives Act, 1875, page 12",
          "text": "In March Messrs. Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., imported without a licence a consignment of 500 imitation cigarette cases, each containing a roll of amorces arranged in such a manner that an amorce was fired each time the case was opened, and the goods were placed under dentention by the Customs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island",
          "text": "Cyrus Harding would certainly have been able to fabricate an amorce. In default of fulminate, he could easily obtain a substance similar to gun-cotton, since he had azotic acid at his disposal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Gerard Woodward, August, page 37",
          "text": "In her hand she'd held a silver pistol which she'd pointed at Aldous's head and fired five times, five sharp cracks and some blue smoke from the amorces smelling of fireworks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A percussion cap or detonator."
      ],
      "id": "en-amorce-en-noun-Xjz-uPgE",
      "links": [
        [
          "percussion cap",
          "percussion cap"
        ],
        [
          "detonator",
          "detonator"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "/əˈmoɹs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈmɔːs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "amorce"
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      "form": "amorces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Roy Jenkins, European Diary: 1977-1981, page 225",
          "text": "The anti-Americanism — or anti-Carterism, because Schmidt is basically pro-American — was in a way worrying, although if the dollar crisis is such an amorce for economic and monetary union, I am prepared, up to a point, to go along with it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Irène Assiba d' Almeida, Francophone African Women Writers, page 103",
          "text": "The word mourning is such an amorce, which prefigures the novel's denouement and also suggests that Jean's rejection of their daughter is tantamount to \"killing\" her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Alice Bennett, Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction, page 93",
          "text": "Penelope's reference to her future awareness of this grave mistake is half proleptic and half what Genette terms an amorce: the establishment of anticipation for the development of the plot through hints about future events.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hint about the future; an instance of foreshadowing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hint",
          "hint"
        ],
        [
          "future",
          "future"
        ],
        [
          "foreshadowing",
          "foreshadowing"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Great Britain Home Office, Explosives Act, 1875, page 12",
          "text": "In March Messrs. Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., imported without a licence a consignment of 500 imitation cigarette cases, each containing a roll of amorces arranged in such a manner that an amorce was fired each time the case was opened, and the goods were placed under dentention by the Customs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island",
          "text": "Cyrus Harding would certainly have been able to fabricate an amorce. In default of fulminate, he could easily obtain a substance similar to gun-cotton, since he had azotic acid at his disposal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Gerard Woodward, August, page 37",
          "text": "In her hand she'd held a silver pistol which she'd pointed at Aldous's head and fired five times, five sharp cracks and some blue smoke from the amorces smelling of fireworks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A percussion cap or detonator."
      ],
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        [
          "percussion cap",
          "percussion cap"
        ],
        [
          "detonator",
          "detonator"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/əˈmɔːs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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  "word": "amorce"
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