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"ref": "2011 March 13, Chris Bevan, “Stoke 2 - 1 West Ham”, in BBC",
"text": "The visitors were given notice of what was to come when Huth headed wide from a Rory Delap long throw but failed to heed the warning, allowing the German defender to rise unmarked to meet another Delap catapult and plant his header into the net after 12 minutes.",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "device for launching large objects",
"word": "katapult"
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"word": "katapultti"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
"word": "heittokone"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳaṭaṗulṭa",
"sense": "device for launching large objects",
"word": "კატაპულტა"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "pilaḳvani",
"sense": "device for launching large objects",
"word": "ფილაკვანი"
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"code": "oge",
"lang": "Old Georgian",
"roman": "pilaḳvani",
"sense": "device for launching large objects",
"word": "ფილაკვანი"
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"lang": "German",
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "hi",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "hi",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
"word": "अवक्षेपक"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "device for launching large objects",
"word": "katapult"
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"roman": "katapulta",
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"code": "ms",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "ota",
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"roman": "manjeniq",
"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "fa",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "tl",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "device for launching large objects",
"word": "แคทะพัลต์"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
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"sense": "device for launching large objects",
"word": "máy bắn đá"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "katapultiram",
"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
"word": "катапултирам"
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"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
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"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
"word": "katapultovat"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
"word": "slynge"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
"word": "kaste"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
"word": "katapulti"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
"word": "singota"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
"word": "catapulter"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
"word": "katapultieren"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
"word": "katapultować"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to fire a missile from a catapult",
"word": "catapultar"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to fire or launch as if from catapult",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to fire or launch as if from catapult",
"word": "kaste"
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "to fire or launch as if from catapult",
"word": "katapulti"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to fire or launch as if from catapult",
"word": "singota"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to fire or launch as if from catapult",
"word": "sinkauttaa"
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"sense": "to fire or launch as if from catapult",
"word": "katapultál"
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"sense": "to fire or launch as if from catapult",
"word": "catapultar"
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"sense": "to increase the status rapidly",
"word": "катапултирам"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "to increase the status rapidly",
"word": "catapultar"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to increase the status rapidly",
"word": "katapultere"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to increase the status rapidly",
"word": "catapulter"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to increase the status rapidly",
"word": "katapultieren"
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"code": "he",
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"roman": "hizník",
"sense": "to increase the status rapidly",
"word": "הזניק"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to be fired from or as if from a catapult",
"word": "flyve"
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{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "to be fired from or as if from a catapult",
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"sense": "to be fired from or as if from a catapult",
"word": "katapultiĝi"
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"sense": "to be fired from or as if from a catapult",
"word": "katapulti sin"
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"sense": "to be fired from or as if from a catapult",
"word": "ampaista"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.