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"alt": "きばんがん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kibangan",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"word": "基盤岩"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bun-charrick"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fjellgrunn"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "berggrunn"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fjellgrunn"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "berggrunn"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"word": "سنگ بستر"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"word": "skała macierzysta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rocha-mãe"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crap-mamma"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "korennája poróda",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коренна́я поро́да"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "korennája podstilájuščaja poróda",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коренна́я подстила́ющая поро́да"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bɛ́drok",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бе́дрок"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bɛdrók",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бедро́к"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "roca madre"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "material rocoso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "berggrund"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"word": "palanas"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"word": "lunas na bato"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"word": "ana kaya"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"word": "ana kayaç"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "creigwely"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "craigwely"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "yesod-shteyn",
"sense": "underground solid rock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "יסוד־שטיין"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "basis or foundation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fundament"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "basis or foundation",
"word": "peruskallio"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "basis or foundation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grundlage"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "basis or foundation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Basis"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "basis or foundation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Fundament"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "basis or foundation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fundament"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "basis or foundation",
"word": "kaide"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"bedrock"
],
"word": "bedrock"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"en:Rocks"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bed",
"3": "rock"
},
"expansion": "bed + rock",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "bed + rock",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bedrocks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "bedrocking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bedrocked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bedrocked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "bedrock (third-person singular simple present bedrocks, present participle bedrocking, simple past and past participle bedrocked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Allen Tullos, Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie, page 128",
"text": "Bedrocked in the formative race relations of the Heart of Dixie, the governor declined an invitation to the unveiling of artist Maya Lin's civil rights memorial in downtown Montgomery.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To establish on a solid foundation."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, figurative) To establish on a solid foundation."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"bedrock"
],
"word": "bedrock"
}
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