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"forms": [
{
"form": "cliff faces",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"expansion": "cliff face (plural cliff faces)",
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2021 October 20, “Network News: £25m to reduce Newport landslips”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8",
"text": "Commencing next summer, 30,000 tonnes of cliff face will be removed, and mesh-and-bolt caging installed on a three-mile section to stabilise the surface and prevent rock falls.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The very steep, vertical, or overhanging section of rock, earth, or ice slope usually free of any vegetation or loose material."
],
"id": "en-cliff_face-en-noun-GJBNhEC9",
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "rock",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"word": "kallioseinämä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "rock",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"word": "kalliojyrkänne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "rock",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Felswand"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Bergwand"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"word": "taparerenga"
},
{
"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "kandh",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"word": "ਕੰਧ"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"english": "rock",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perete de stâncă"
}
]
}
],
"word": "cliff face"
}
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"tags": [
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2021 October 20, “Network News: £25m to reduce Newport landslips”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8",
"text": "Commencing next summer, 30,000 tonnes of cliff face will be removed, and mesh-and-bolt caging installed on a three-mile section to stabilise the surface and prevent rock falls.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The very steep, vertical, or overhanging section of rock, earth, or ice slope usually free of any vegetation or loose material."
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "rock",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"word": "kallioseinämä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "rock",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"word": "kalliojyrkänne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "rock",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Felswand"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Bergwand"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"word": "taparerenga"
},
{
"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "kandh",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"word": "ਕੰਧ"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"english": "rock",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a very steep section of a slope",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perete de stâncă"
}
],
"word": "cliff face"
}
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