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"ref": "2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC",
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"text": "Another way of writing the last example is 'She brought along her favourite food which is chocolate cake' but this is less concise: colons can give your writing lean, crisp style.",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "pokrytyj rjabʹju",
"sense": "curled by the ripple of water",
"word": "покрытый рябью"
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],
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"To colour (something with highlights); to add small amounts of colour to (something)."
],
"links": [
[
"highlight",
"highlight"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, dated) To colour (something with highlights); to add small amounts of colour to (something)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tinge"
}
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɹɪsp/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪsp"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-crisp.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/En-us-crisp.ogg/En-us-crisp.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-us-crisp.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pravja ronliv",
"sense": "To make crisp",
"word": "правя ронлив"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To make crisp",
"word": "rapeuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To make crisp",
"word": "paistaa rapeaksi"
}
],
"word": "crisp"
}
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