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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"neuter"
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"masculine"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "a part of something",
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"code": "fr",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"masculine"
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"neuter"
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"code": "de",
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"code": "it",
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"code": "es",
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"masculine"
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{
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"To break into large pieces or chunks."
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"(transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks."
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"ref": "2005, Yong Zhao, Research in Technology and Second Language Education",
"text": "These results offer tentative evidence that suggests that certain components of computer-mediated instruction (in this case, access to and control over syntactically chunked, captioned video) are not necessarily beneficial for certain learners […]",
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"To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size."
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[
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"To throw."
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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.
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