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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kotva"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo",
"word": "ankkuri"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo",
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"word": "Anker"
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
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"sense": "the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo",
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"sense": "the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo",
"word": "アーマチュア"
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"sense": "the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo",
"word": "pōkaihuri"
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"sense": "the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo",
"tags": [
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"word": "armadura"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jákorʹ",
"sense": "the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo",
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"word": "я́корь"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "inducido"
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "the rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo",
"word": "paakma"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sculpting",
"word": "tukirakenne"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sculpting",
"word": "runko"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "sculpting",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a protective organ, structure, or covering",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cumhdach"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "armor",
"word": "panssari"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "glasses frame",
"word": "kehys"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "armature"
}
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],
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"ref": "1940, Waldo David Frank, Chart for Rough Water: Our Role in a New World, page 147",
"text": "T. S. Eliot had his legion of followers: the immaculate minor poet armaturing in exquisite technique a mildewed softness, and living a reminiscent universe which never existed.",
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"ref": "1985, Frederick S Clarke, Cinefantastique - Volume 15, page 48",
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{
"ref": "1996, Mrinalini Devi Sharma, Energy Conscious Earth Architecture for Sustainable Development",
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"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2011, Darold A. Treffert, Daniel Tammet, Islands of Genius",
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{
"ref": "2012, Phil Wallace Payne, The Strivers",
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