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"etymology_text": "Uncertain, but likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish dingle, dangle, Swedish dangla (“to swing about”), Norwegian dangla, perhaps via North Frisian dangeln; all possibly related to Old Norse dengja (“to hit”).",
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"text": "His feet would dangle in the water.",
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"ref": "2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36",
"text": "Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.",
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"To hang loosely with the ability to swing."
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"(intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing."
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "hang loosely",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "hang loosely",
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"_dis1": "54 4 31 2 0 3 6",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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{
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "tāewa"
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{
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"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "tautau"
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{
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "tāwēwē"
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"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "tārewarewa"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "pender"
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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"roman": "visétʹ",
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"roman": "boltatʹsja",
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"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "vrēlāḍu",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "వ్రేలాడు"
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"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "länk-"
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "telipátysja",
"sense": "hang loosely",
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"word": "теліпа́тися"
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"code": "vec",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "pindoƚar"
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"text": "He dangled around three players and the goalie to score.",
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"The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string."
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"(intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string."
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{
"text": "I like to sit on the edge and dangle my feet in the water.",
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"To hang or trail something loosely."
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"(transitive) To hang or trail something loosely."
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"roman": "dallā",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "دَلَّى"
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"roman": "zakačvam",
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"word": "закачвам"
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"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "baumeln (mit)"
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"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
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{
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"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "baumeln lassen"
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"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "far penzolare"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "whakatārewa"
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"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "atârna"
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"word": "болта́ть"
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"ref": "2020 December 10, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The first movie inspired by the pandemic is here, and it sucks”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "That it happens to have been produced under the imprimatur of Michael Bay dangles the possibility of poor taste, but unfortunately, bombast and conspicuous consumption are nowhere to be found.",
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"To put forth as a possibility."
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"(transitive, figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility."
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"ref": "1833, Miller's Modern Acting Drama",
"text": "To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.",
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"To trail or follow around."
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"ref": "1976, R. Winifred Heyward Johnson, Douglass W. Johnson, Introduction to Nursing Care, page 139",
"text": "Record the time and duration of dangling, patient's pulse and respirations and patient's general tolerance of the procedure. […] The next step usually in getting the patient out of bed is sitting […]",
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{
"ref": "2012, Judith M. Wilkinson, Leslie S. Treas, Pocket Nursing Skills: What You Need to Know Now",
"text": "[P]ivot to bring the patient's legs over the side of the bed. Be Smart! Stay with the patient as he dangles.",
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"(medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed."
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"ref": "2012, Judith M. Wilkinson, Leslie S. Treas, Pocket Nursing Skills: What You Need to Know Now",
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"(medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way."
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"3": "dengja",
"t": "to hit"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse dengja (“to hit”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Uncertain, but likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish dingle, dangle, Swedish dangla (“to swing about”), Norwegian dangla, perhaps via North Frisian dangeln; all possibly related to Old Norse dengja (“to hit”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dangles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dangle (plural dangles)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2017, Nancy Howell Lee, Peter Dale Scott, Bertram Gross, Forbidden Bookshelf's Resistance in America Collection",
"text": "The example of Oswald will show how the different operations of a dangle and a barium meal would work more efficiently together.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group."
],
"links": [
[
"intelligence",
"intelligence"
],
[
"agency",
"agency"
],
[
"defect",
"defect"
],
[
"turn",
"turn"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"en:Ice hockey",
"en:Lacrosse"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "That was a sick dangle for a great goal!"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style."
],
"links": [
[
"ice hockey",
"ice hockey"
],
[
"lacrosse",
"lacrosse"
],
[
"dangling",
"dangling"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"ball-games",
"games",
"hobbies",
"ice-hockey",
"lacrosse",
"lifestyle",
"skating",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1941, Flora Thompson, Over to Candleford",
"text": "So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles, like tiny fishing rods.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A dangling ornament or decoration."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdæŋ.ɡl̩/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æŋɡəl"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/54/En-au-dangle.ogg/En-au-dangle.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/En-au-dangle.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"dangle"
],
"word": "dangle"
}
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