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"text": "8 August 2018, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky in AV Club, Jason Statham fighting a giant shark should be a lot more fun than The Meg\nscience has deduced the following: that megalodon was the biggest and baddest of all sharks and, less cinematically, that it had a lower intestine not unlike that of some modern shark species. Scientists estimate its length at around 40 to 50 feet, Alten’s novel bumps it up to 65 feet, and the movie ballparks it at “75 to 90 feet.”"
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"form": "ballparking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "ballparked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ballparked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ballpark (third-person singular simple present ballparks, present participle ballparking, simple past and past participle ballparked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "If you don’t have the exact expense total, just ballpark it.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2016, JoAnneh Nagler, How to be an artist without losing your mind, your shirt, or your creative compass, page 47",
"text": "Ballpark what you need in each category and average those amounts by 12 months.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "8 August 2018, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky in AV Club, Jason Statham fighting a giant shark should be a lot more fun than The Meg\nscience has deduced the following: that megalodon was the biggest and baddest of all sharks and, less cinematically, that it had a lower intestine not unlike that of some modern shark species. Scientists estimate its length at around 40 to 50 feet, Alten’s novel bumps it up to 65 feet, and the movie ballparks it at “75 to 90 feet.”"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a rough estimate of."
],
"links": [
[
"rough",
"rough"
],
[
"estimate",
"estimate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make a rough estimate of."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "make an estimate",
"word": "abschätzen"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "priblizítelʹno",
"sense": "make an estimate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "приблизи́тельно оце́нивать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prikídyvatʹ",
"sense": "make an estimate",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"informal"
],
"word": "прики́дывать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "make an estimate",
"word": "estimar"
}
],
"word": "ballpark"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": océnivatʹ vs. priblizítelʹno",
"path": [
"ballpark"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "ballpark",
"trace": ""
}
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