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{
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"word": "anal beads"
},
{
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"word": "angle bead"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Baily's beads"
},
{
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"word": "bead breaker"
},
{
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"word": "beaded lacewing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "beaded lizard"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bead fern"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bead lightning"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bead lily"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bead maze"
},
{
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"word": "bead proof"
},
{
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"word": "bead-rattler"
},
{
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"word": "bead seat"
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{
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"word": "bead tree"
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{
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"word": "bead-tree"
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{
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"word": "beady"
},
{
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"word": "bid beads"
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{
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"word": "borax bead test"
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{
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"word": "captive bead ring"
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{
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"word": "casing bead"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "draw a bead on"
},
{
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"word": "drop one's beads"
},
{
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"word": "dzi bead"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "fairy-beads"
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{
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"word": "Hail Mary bead"
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{
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"word": "jet bead"
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{
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"word": "jumbie bead"
},
{
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"word": "love bead"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "love-bead"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "parting bead"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "pony bead"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "prayer bead"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "prayer beads"
},
{
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"word": "read someone's beads"
},
{
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"word": "seed bead"
},
{
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"word": "St. Cuthbert's beads"
},
{
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"word": "sticky bead argument"
},
{
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"word": "stop bead"
},
{
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"word": "string of beads"
},
{
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"word": "take a bead on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "tyre bead"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "water bead"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "worry beads"
}
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"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gʷʰedʰ-"
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"name": "root"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "enm",
"3": "bede",
"4": "",
"5": "a prayer"
},
"expansion": "Middle English bede (“a prayer”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "a peire of bedes",
"lit": "a pair of beads"
},
"expansion": "a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "bedu"
},
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"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "bed"
},
"expansion": "bed",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ġebed",
"3": "",
"4": "a request, entreaty, prayer"
},
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"name": "m"
},
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"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*bedu"
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{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "*bed"
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"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "*gabed"
},
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"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*bedō"
},
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"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*bedą"
},
"expansion": "*bedą",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "gebed"
},
"expansion": "Dutch gebed",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "bede"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Gebet"
},
"expansion": "German Gebet",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą.\nCognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.",
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{
"form": "beads",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "bead (plural beads)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "hair pipe"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 115",
"text": "That he must believe in the Pope;—go to Mass;—cross himself;—tell his beads;—be a good Catholick, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Prayer, later especially with a rosary."
],
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"links": [
[
"Prayer",
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],
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"(archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"translations": [
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "muncuq"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mǎnisto",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "мънисто"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dena"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "oksop"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "niànzhū",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "念珠"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhū",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "珠"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "kraal"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "bido"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "helmi"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grain"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "doa"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "szem"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grano"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rozario",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "ロザリオ"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bijeu",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "비즈"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "kum",
"lang": "Kumyk",
"roman": "inji",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "инжи"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "kum",
"lang": "Kumyk",
"roman": "minçaq",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "минчакъ"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "moncok",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "мончок"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "monisto",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "монисто"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "bede"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grun"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "boncuk",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "بونجق"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "mohre",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "مهره"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Krall"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "paciorek"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "koralik"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "conta"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bíser",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "би́сер"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "búsy",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "бу́сы"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čótki",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "чётки"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jagoda"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "alt",
"lang": "Southern Altai",
"roman": "ǰinǰi",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "јинји"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "alt",
"lang": "Southern Altai",
"roman": "mončok",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "мончок"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cuenta"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"class-10",
"class-9"
],
"word": "tasbihi"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "rif",
"lang": "Tarifit",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tadmant"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "pūsa",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "పూస"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "boncuk"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "biserýna",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бісери́на"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "chuỗi hạt"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "tràng hạt"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "glain"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 27 1 2 0 3 6 6 2 2 4",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pader"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster."
],
"id": "en-bead-en-noun-ai7cSuBy",
"links": [
[
"rosary",
"rosary"
],
[
"paternoster",
"paternoster"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A small, round object.",
"A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes."
],
"id": "en-bead-en-noun-0RORfyoI"
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200",
"text": "Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small, round object.",
"Various small, round solid objects."
],
"id": "en-bead-en-noun-hC4IoMEI"
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "beads of sweat",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small, round object.",
"A small drop of water or other liquid."
],
"id": "en-bead-en-noun-iKAhNPR0",
"links": [
[
"drop",
"drop"
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],
"translations": [
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kapčica",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "капчица"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiǎodī",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "小滴"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "druppel"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "guto"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "helmi"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "pisara"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gouttelette"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pinga"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Tropfen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "stála",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "στάλα"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "csepp"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mónóg"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boilgeog"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "goccia"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gocciolina"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kropla"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gota"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "káplja",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ка́пля"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 5 10 10 36 10 10 10 0 0 9",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kápelʹka",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "muncuq"
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"tags": [
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"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "rosary ball",
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "niànzhū",
"sense": "rosary ball",
"word": "念珠"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"tags": [
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"word": "szem"
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "rif",
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"code": "te",
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"code": "tr",
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{
"code": "vi",
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{
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "rosary ball",
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"code": "cy",
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"word": "топче"
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{
"code": "cic",
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"word": "oksop"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"code": "apm",
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"word": "bido"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "helmi"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"tags": [
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"code": "gl",
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"tags": [
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"word": "doa"
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{
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"tags": [
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"word": "conta"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"tags": [
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"word": "Perle"
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"code": "el",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "golyócska"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "klikker"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
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"word": "grano"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "南京玉"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "guseul",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "구슬"
},
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"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "muru",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "مورو"
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"code": "apl",
"lang": "Lipan",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "yoo"
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{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "manik"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "pirepire"
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"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "bede"
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"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "yoo’"
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{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "boncuk",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "بونجق"
},
{
"code": "ota",
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"roman": "mühre",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "مهره"
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"code": "fa",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "منجوق"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "bolži",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "بلژی"
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"code": "apk",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "zhoo"
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"code": "pdt",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
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"word": "paciorek"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "conta"
},
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "miçanga"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
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"word": "бу́сина"
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"code": "sk",
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"code": "sk",
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"code": "sl",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
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"word": "perla"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"tags": [
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"word": "cuenta"
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"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
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"word": "ushanga"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"tags": [
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"word": "pärla"
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"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "lûuk-bpàt",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "ลูกปัด"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "boncuk"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "namýstyna",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "нами́стина"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "monchaq",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "مونچاق"
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
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"code": "apw",
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"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "yoo"
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"code": "apw",
"lang": "Western Apache",
"sense": "small, round, pierced object",
"word": "yoo’"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kapčica",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "капчица"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiǎodī",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "小滴"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "druppel"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "guto"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "helmi"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"word": "pisara"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "gouttelette"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
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"word": "pinga"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "small drop of liquid",
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"masculine"
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"word": "Tropfen"
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "στάλα"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "small drop of liquid",
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "mónóg"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "boilgeog"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "small drop of liquid",
"tags": [
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"word": "goccia"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "small drop of liquid",
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"word": "gocciolina"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "small drop of liquid",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "sk",
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"code": "tr",
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"code": "wa",
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"sense": "small drop of liquid",
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"word": "gotlete"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "front sight of a gun",
"word": "célgömb"
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"code": "hu",
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