See bale in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"past"
]
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To wrap into a bale."
],
"links": [
[
"wrap",
"wrap"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To wrap into a bale."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/beɪ̯l/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈbeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]"
},
{
"ipa": "[beə̯ɫ]"
},
{
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/En-us-bale.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪl"
},
{
"homophone": "bail"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "baliram",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "балирам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "enfardellar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "enfardar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "paalata"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "paalittaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "paketieren"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "báláz"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "pēre"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "balotować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "belować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "enfardar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "embalar"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to wrap into a bale",
"word": "paketlemek"
}
],
"word": "bale"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 19 entries",
"Rhymes:English/eɪl",
"Rhymes:English/eɪl/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 4,
"etymology_text": "Alternative spelling of bail.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bales",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "baling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "baled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "baled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"en:Nautical"
],
"glosses": [
"To remove water from a boat with buckets etc."
],
"links": [
[
"nautical",
"nautical"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"boat",
"boat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc."
],
"tags": [
"British"
],
"topics": [
"nautical",
"transport"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/beɪ̯l/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈbeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]"
},
{
"ipa": "[beə̯ɫ]"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-bale.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/En-us-bale.ogg/En-us-bale.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/En-us-bale.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪl"
},
{
"homophone": "bail"
}
],
"word": "bale"
}
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