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"countable",
"uncountable"
],
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"film",
"media",
"television"
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],
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"chemical bond",
"chemical bond"
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],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
],
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"chemistry",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
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},
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"en:Physics"
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[
"physics",
"physics"
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[
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[
"voltage",
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[
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"countable",
"uncountable"
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"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
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{
"ref": "1992, En Vogue, My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) (song)",
"text": "And now it's time for a breakdown!"
},
{
"ref": "1999, CMJ New Music Report, volume 59, number 631, page 28",
"text": "The fired-up foursome takes itself very seriously, singing politically charged lyrics, which, in the tradition of Strife and Damnation AD, are strategically placed in the middle of slamming, moshable breakdowns.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A musical technique by which the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, varying in heaviness depending on the genre."
],
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[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"genre",
"genre"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Sports"
],
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{
"ref": "2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements, but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili missed three penalties.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A loss of organization (of the parts of a system)."
],
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[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"organization",
"organization"
]
],
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"(sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system)."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English dated terms"
],
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"A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, common in traditional African American music from the Southern United States."
],
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[
"dance",
"dance"
],
[
"competitive",
"competitive"
],
[
"African American",
"African American"
],
[
"United States",
"United States"
]
],
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"(US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, common in traditional African American music from the Southern United States."
],
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"US",
"countable",
"dated",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1854, New England Tales",
"text": "Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Any noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time."
],
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],
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"US",
"countable",
"dated",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"text": "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
},
{
"ref": "1893, Mark Twain, “The Californian's Tale”, in The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, published 1906",
"text": "Towards nine the three miners said that as they had brought their instruments they might as well tune up, for the boys and girls would soon be arriving now, and hungry for a good old fashioned breakdown. A fiddle, a banjo, and a clarinet - these were the instruments.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1898, Charles Garvice, Nell, of Shorne Mills, page 4",
"text": "Without a change of countenance, as if he were deaf to her entreaties and threats, he tuned up the banjo, and played a breakdown.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Joe R. Lansdale, Sunset and Sawdust, page 65",
"text": "she soon took up with a traveling shoe salesman who played the banjo, wandered away with him and his shoes, probably to the sound of a banjo breakdown",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Stephen Davis, Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses, page 102",
"text": "Izzy lays down some big chords while Slash plays the song's banjo breakdown of a theme.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Jenny Wingfield, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, page 98",
"text": "The grown-ups were lolling around on the porch and in the yard, finger snapping and foot tapping while Samuel played “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” on his fivestring banjo",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Madison Smartt Bell, Soldier's Joy",
"text": "The banjo built up to breakdown speed and then took a sidestep into another register, an oddly complex net of notes which stretched out for a time and finally stopped on a full rest.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo."
],
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[
"bluegrass",
"bluegrass"
],
[
"banjo",
"banjo"
]
],
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"(US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Music"
],
"glosses": [
"The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music."
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"percussion break",
"percussion break"
],
[
"DJ",
"DJ"
],
[
"hip-hop",
"hip-hop"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music."
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈbɹeɪkdaʊn/"
},
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-breakdown.wav",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
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"word": "break-down"
}
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "sınma"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "povreda",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "повреда"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "avárija",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ава́рия"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sčupvane",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "счупване"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "avaria"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pana"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gùzhàng",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "故障"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "defect"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "mankement"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "panne"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stilstand"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "paneo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "rikkoutuminen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "rikkoontuminen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "vika"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "panne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Betriebsstörung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Panne"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katárrefsi",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "κατάρρευση"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "vlávi",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "βλάβη"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "התקלקלות"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "meghibásodás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "üzemzavar"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cliseadh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "avaria"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "guasto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "collasso"
},
{
"alt": "こしょう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "koshō",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "故障"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gojang",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "고장"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "havari"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "havari"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "awaria"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "avaria"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "polómka",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "поло́мка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "avárija",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ава́рия"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "povreždénije",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "поврежде́ние"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "havária"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "porucha"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "avería"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "America",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "descompostura"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"Chile",
"feminine"
],
"word": "pana"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"tags": [
"Chile",
"feminine"
],
"word": "panne"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "failure, particularly mechanical",
"word": "aberya"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "koláps",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кола́пс"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "instorting"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "inzinking"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"word": "romahdus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"word": "murtuminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "crise de nerfs"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "crise nerveuse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nervenzusammenbruch"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katárrefsi",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "κατάρρευση"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "klonismós",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hitmotetut",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "התמוטטות"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"word": "összeroppanás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"word": "kiborulás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"word": "összeomlás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"word": "ideg-összeroppanás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"word": "idegösszeomlás"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cliseadh"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "colapso"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kolláps",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "колла́пс"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rasstrójstvo",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nervnyj sryv",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нервный срыв"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ataque de nervios"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "colapso nervioso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lapse of mental stability",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sammanbrott"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tawazzuʕ",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "تَوَزُّع"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "analiz",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "анализ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razčlenjavane",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "разчленяване"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desglossament"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēnjiě",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"word": "分解"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "opdeling"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"word": "opsplitsing"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "uitsplitsing"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"word": "erittely"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "détail"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Aufschlüsselung"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "análysi",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ανάλυση"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "taxinómisi",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ταξινόμηση"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "diaíresi",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "διαίρεση"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"word": "bontás"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "analisi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dettaglio"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"word": "内訳"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "riz-e aqlâm",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"word": "ریز اقلام"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "análiz",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ана́лиз"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razbór",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "разбо́р"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rasčlenénije",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "расчлене́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razbórka",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "разбо́рка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razbívka",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"word": "разби́вка"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desglose"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "listing or categorization in great detail",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nedbrytning"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razkǎsvane",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "разкъсване"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"word": "openbreking"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "afbraak"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"word": "hajottaminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dégradation"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"word": "lebontás"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nedbrytning"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nedbryting"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nedbryting"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rasščeplénije",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "расщепле́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razložénije",
"sense": "breaking of chemical bonds within a compound",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "разложе́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brɛjk",
"sense": "musical technique",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "брейк"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "loss of organization",
"word": "hajoaminen"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brɛjk",
"sense": "dance performed by shuffling the feet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "брейк"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rapid bluegrass dance tune",
"word": "breikki"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brɛjk",
"sense": "rapid bluegrass dance tune",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "брейк"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"breakdown"
],
"word": "breakdown"
}
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