"bascule" meaning in English

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "basculation"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bascule bridge"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "bascule"
      },
      "expansion": "French bascule",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French bascule.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bascules",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bascule (plural bascules)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bacule"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Journal of the Association of Chinese & American Engineers, page 10:",
          "text": "In the late eighties and early nineties several new types of movable spans were advocated, including the pull-back draw, the jackknife span, the bob-tail swing, the horizontal-folding draw, the shearpole draw, the gyratory lift, the transbordeur, the double-cantilever swing, several types of bascule, and the vertical lift.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Jeffrey A. Hess, Historic Highway Bridges in Wisconsin, page 87:",
          "text": "The study sample contains nine rolling-lift bascules of the type invented by Chicago engineer William Scherzer in 1893 , and refined by the engineering staff of the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company, also of Chicago.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, w:Sherlock Holmes (2009 film), spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.):",
          "text": "Look at those towering structures. It’s the first combination of bascule and suspension bridge ever attempted. Most innovative. [In reference to w:Tower Bridge.]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers."
      ],
      "id": "en-bascule-en-noun-VG0sciG3",
      "links": [
        [
          "counterbalance",
          "counterbalance"
        ],
        [
          "structure",
          "structure"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Firearms",
          "orig": "en:Firearms",
          "parents": [
            "Weapons",
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office:",
          "text": "A device for coupling and releasing the trigger mechanism in a bascule of a gun",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber."
      ],
      "id": "en-bascule-en-noun-ASjusKpB",
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ],
        [
          "breech-loading",
          "breech-loading"
        ],
        [
          "chamber",
          "chamber"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(firearms) The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "firearms",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæskjuːl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bascule"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "basculation"
    },
    {
      "word": "bascule bridge"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "3": "bascule"
      },
      "expansion": "French bascule",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French bascule.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bascules",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bascule (plural bascules)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bacule"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Journal of the Association of Chinese & American Engineers, page 10:",
          "text": "In the late eighties and early nineties several new types of movable spans were advocated, including the pull-back draw, the jackknife span, the bob-tail swing, the horizontal-folding draw, the shearpole draw, the gyratory lift, the transbordeur, the double-cantilever swing, several types of bascule, and the vertical lift.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Jeffrey A. Hess, Historic Highway Bridges in Wisconsin, page 87:",
          "text": "The study sample contains nine rolling-lift bascules of the type invented by Chicago engineer William Scherzer in 1893 , and refined by the engineering staff of the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company, also of Chicago.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, w:Sherlock Holmes (2009 film), spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.):",
          "text": "Look at those towering structures. It’s the first combination of bascule and suspension bridge ever attempted. Most innovative. [In reference to w:Tower Bridge.]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "counterbalance",
          "counterbalance"
        ],
        [
          "structure",
          "structure"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Firearms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office:",
          "text": "A device for coupling and releasing the trigger mechanism in a bascule of a gun",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ],
        [
          "breech-loading",
          "breech-loading"
        ],
        [
          "chamber",
          "chamber"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(firearms) The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "firearms",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæskjuːl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bascule"
}