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"1": "ang",
"2": "weġ"
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"name": "m"
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"1": "en",
"2": "way"
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"etymology_text": "First appeared in the 10th century with literal meaning \"by the side of the road\", from Old English weġ (which became \"way\") meaning \"road\". Soon afterward (circa 1000) it came to mean \"during one's journey\". The figurative meaning developed in the mid-16th century, with the first instance of the modern meaning being from 1614.",
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"1": "en",
"2": "prepositional phrase",
"head": ""
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{
"text": "His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she recently sold her collection of ceramic eggs.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2",
"text": "[…] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way."
}
],
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"Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened."
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"(conjunctive, idiomatic) Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened."
],
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"word": "apropos"
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{
"word": "BTW"
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{
"word": "by the by"
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{
"word": "incidentally"
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{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "meqë ra fjala"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bi-l-munāsaba",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "بِالْمُنَاسَبَةِ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕalā fikratin",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "عَلَى فِكْرَةٍ"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "بالمناسبة"
},
{
"code": "acw",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"code": "ajp",
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"roman": "ʕala fikra",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"South-Levantine-Arabic"
],
"word": "على فكرة"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "i dep",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ի դեպ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "imiǰiaylocʿ",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "իմիջիայլոց"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "yeri gəlmişkən"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "sözü gəlmişkən"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "əytkəndəy",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "әйткәндәй"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "daréčy",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "дарэ́чы"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "meždú drúgoto",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "между́ дру́гото"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vpróčem",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "впро́чем"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "per cert"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "話時話"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "waa⁶ si⁴ waa⁶",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "话时话"
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{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "講開又講"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "gong² hoi¹ jau³ gong²",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "讲开又讲"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "對了"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "duìle",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "对了"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "話說"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàshuō",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "话说"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mimochodem"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "for resten"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "forresten"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "trouwens"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "overigens"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nu dat ik eraan denk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tussen haakjes"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "terloops gezegd"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "parenteze"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "cetere"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "muuseas"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "muide"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "muuhulgas"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "muideks"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "muuten"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "soit dit en passant"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tout bien considéré"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"english": "at beginning of a sentence",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "à propos"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "au fait"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "d’ailleurs"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sxvata šoris",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "სხვათა შორის"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "apropos"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nebenbei"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "übrigens"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "epí ti efkairía",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "επί τη ευκαιρία"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ep' efkairía",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "επ' ευκαιρία"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "agáv",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "אַגַּב"
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "dérekh agáv",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "דרך אגב"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "vaise",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "वैसे"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "egyébként"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mellesleg"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "vel á minnst"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "meðal annarra orða"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ngomong ngomong"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "dála an scéil"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a proposito"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "incidentalmente"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "per caso"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tokoro de",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ところで"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chinami ni",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ちなみに"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "geureonde",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "그런데"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "cham",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "참"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "obiter"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "starp citu"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "beje"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tarp kitko"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pátem",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "па́тем"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pátem réčeno",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "па́тем ре́чено"
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{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "forresten"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "dich siá en passant"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "راستی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "swoją drogą"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "(a) tak w ogóle"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "przy okazji"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "à propos"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nawiasem mówiąc"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "na marginesie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a propósito"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "aliás"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "por sinal"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "diga-se de passagem"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "já agora"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "apropo"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kstáti",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "кста́ти"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "méždu próčim",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ме́жду про́чим"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "eadar dà sgeul"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "eadar dhà sheanchas"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "incidentally",
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"word": "у̏згре̄д"
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
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"word": "ùspūt"
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mimochodom"
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{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mímogredé"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "por cierto"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "de paso"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a propósito"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "dicho sea de paso"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a todo esto"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "förresten"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "för övrigt"
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{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "annaṭṭu",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "అన్నట్టు"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "aklıma gelmişken"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "bu arada"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "sırası gelmişken"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "do réči",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "до ре́чі"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "miž ínšym",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "між і́ншим"
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{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "vaise",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ویسے"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nhân đây"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "incidentally",
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"informal"
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"word": "à này"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tiện thể"
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{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "gyda llaw"
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"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "agev",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "אַגבֿ"
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{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "agev-urkhe",
"sense": "incidentally",
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"2": "way"
},
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"name": "m"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prepositional phrase",
"head": ""
},
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"name": "head"
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{
"args": {},
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],
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"pos": "prep_phrase",
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{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English terms with usage examples"
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{
"text": "His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she recently sold her collection of ceramic eggs.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2",
"text": "[…] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way."
}
],
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"Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened."
],
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"Incidentally",
"incidentally"
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"crucial",
"crucial"
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"(conjunctive, idiomatic) Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened."
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"word": "apropos"
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{
"word": "BTW"
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{
"word": "by the by"
},
{
"word": "incidentally"
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],
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"tags": [
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "meqë ra fjala"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bi-l-munāsaba",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "بِالْمُنَاسَبَةِ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕalā fikratin",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "عَلَى فِكْرَةٍ"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "belmunasba",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "بالمناسبة"
},
{
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tara",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic"
],
"word": "تَرَى"
},
{
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bilmunāsba",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic"
],
"word": "بِالْمُنَاسَبة"
},
{
"code": "ajp",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕala fikra",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"South-Levantine-Arabic"
],
"word": "على فكرة"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "i dep",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ի դեպ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "imiǰiaylocʿ",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "իմիջիայլոց"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "yeri gəlmişkən"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "sözü gəlmişkən"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "əytkəndəy",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "әйткәндәй"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "daréčy",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "дарэ́чы"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "meždú drúgoto",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "между́ дру́гото"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vpróčem",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "впро́чем"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "per cert"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "話時話"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "waa⁶ si⁴ waa⁶",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "话时话"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "講開又講"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "gong² hoi¹ jau³ gong²",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "讲开又讲"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "對了"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "duìle",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "对了"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "話說"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàshuō",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "话说"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mimochodem"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "for resten"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "forresten"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "trouwens"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "overigens"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nu dat ik eraan denk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tussen haakjes"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "terloops gezegd"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "parenteze"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "cetere"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "muuseas"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "muide"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "muuhulgas"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "muideks"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "muuten"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "soit dit en passant"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tout bien considéré"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"english": "at beginning of a sentence",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "à propos"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "au fait"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "d’ailleurs"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sxvata šoris",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "სხვათა შორის"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "apropos"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nebenbei"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "übrigens"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "epí ti efkairía",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "επί τη ευκαιρία"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ep' efkairía",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "επ' ευκαιρία"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "agáv",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "אַגַּב"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "dérekh agáv",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "דרך אגב"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "vaise",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "वैसे"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "egyébként"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mellesleg"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "vel á minnst"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "meðal annarra orða"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ngomong ngomong"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "dála an scéil"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a proposito"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "incidentalmente"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "per caso"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tokoro de",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ところで"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chinami ni",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ちなみに"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "geureonde",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "그런데"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "cham",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "참"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "obiter"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "starp citu"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "beje"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tarp kitko"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pátem",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "па́тем"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pátem réčeno",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "па́тем ре́чено"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "forresten"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "dich siá en passant"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "راستی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "swoją drogą"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "(a) tak w ogóle"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "przy okazji"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "à propos"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nawiasem mówiąc"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "na marginesie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a propósito"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "aliás"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "por sinal"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "diga-se de passagem"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "já agora"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "apropo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kstáti",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "кста́ти"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "méždu próčim",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ме́жду про́чим"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "eadar dà sgeul"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "eadar dhà sheanchas"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "у̏згре̄д"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "у̀спӯт"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "ȕzgrēd"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "ùspūt"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mimochodom"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mímogredé"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "por cierto"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "de paso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a propósito"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "dicho sea de paso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a todo esto"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "förresten"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "för övrigt"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "annaṭṭu",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "అన్నట్టు"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "aklıma gelmişken"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "bu arada"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "sırası gelmişken"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "do réči",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "до ре́чі"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "miž ínšym",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "між і́ншим"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "vaise",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ویسے"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nhân đây"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "à này"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tiện thể"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "gyda llaw"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "agev",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "אַגבֿ"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "agev-urkhe",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "אַגבֿ־אורחא"
}
],
"word": "by the way"
}
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"English conjunctive adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English hedges",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English prepositional phrases",
"English speech-act adverbs",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English uncomparable adverbs"
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"Irrelevantly, off-topic."
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"audio": "en-au-by the way.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/En-au-by_the_way.ogg",
"tags": [
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"word": "BTW"
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{
"tags": [
"initialism"
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}
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}
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