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"etymology_text": "PIE word\n *dwóh₁\nFrom Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devisō, from Latin dīvisō, frequentative of dīvidō.",
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{
"text": "to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing",
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{
"ref": "1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, page 23",
"text": "Thus, the task of the linguist devising a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to devise a finite set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an infinite set of well-formed sentences.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2019 March 21, Setboonsarg, Chayut, Johnson, Kay, “Numbers game: How Thailand's election system favors pro-army parties”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, Reuters, retrieved 2019-03-23",
"text": "Thailand goes to the polls on Sunday under a new system that critics say the military government has devised to prevent the most popular political party, which has won every election since 2001, from returning to power.",
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"To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something)."
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"(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something)."
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "krijoj"
},
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"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "sajoj"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "измислям"
},
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"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
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"roman": "izobretjavam",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "изобретявам"
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{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "divisar"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "copçar"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "preveure"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "devisya"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "navrhnout"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"tags": [
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"word": "vymyslet"
},
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"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "vynalézt"
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"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "opfinde"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "udtænke"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "finde på"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "udarbejde"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "elpensi"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "kehitellä"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "suunnitella"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "keksiä"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "junailla"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "kekata"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "masinoida"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "concevoir"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "élaborer"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "idear"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "ausdenken"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "entwerfen"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "erdenken"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "planen"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "cum"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "architettare"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "congegnare"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "escogitare"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "inventare"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "goanhada",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "고안하다"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "nectō"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "whakangārahu"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "concebre"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "inventar"
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{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "fargar"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "imaginar"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "āhyċġan"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "pergerlemek",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "پرگارلامق"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "inventar"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "tramar"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "delinear"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "projetar"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "idear"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "urzi"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razrabátyvatʹ",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "разраба́тывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razrabótatʹ",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "разрабо́тать"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamyšljátʹ",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "замышля́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamýslitʹ",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "замы́слить"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "vymyslieť"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "vyšpekulovať"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "concebir"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "inventar"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "hitta på"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "tänka ut"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "uppfinna"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "tasarlamak"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "đề ra"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "vạch ra"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 0 18 20 4",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "datikön"
}
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"To leave (property) in a will."
],
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"(transitive) To leave (property) in a will."
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"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zaveštavam",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "завещавам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odkázat"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "testamentere"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "testamentata"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "letztwillig vermachen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "durch Testament verfügen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "horísh",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "הוריש"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "legar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "deixar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaveščátʹ",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "завеща́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "zanechať"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "poručiť"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "odkázať"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "legar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "miras bırakmak"
}
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"To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider."
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"(intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider."
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"To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain."
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"(transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain."
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"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "to scheme, to plot",
"word": "devisya"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 0 36 45 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to scheme, to plot",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vymyslet"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 0 36 45 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to scheme, to plot",
"word": "pianificare"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 0 36 45 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to scheme, to plot",
"word": "whakangārahu"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 0 36 45 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scheme, to plot",
"word": "tramar"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 0 36 45 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to scheme, to plot",
"word": "maquinar"
}
]
},
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"To imagine; to guess."
],
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[
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[
"guess",
"guess"
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"(obsolete) To imagine; to guess."
],
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}
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"word": "изобретявам"
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
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{
"code": "ca",
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{
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"code": "da",
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"word": "udtænke"
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"word": "kehitellä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "suunnitella"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "keksiä"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "junailla"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "kekata"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "masinoida"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "concevoir"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "élaborer"
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{
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "idear"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "ausdenken"
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{
"code": "de",
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"word": "entwerfen"
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{
"code": "de",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "oc",
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{
"code": "ota",
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"code": "pt",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "tramar"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "delinear"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "projetar"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"word": "idear"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
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"word": "разрабо́тать"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
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"code": "sk",
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"word": "vymyslieť"
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{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "concebir"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "inventar"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "hitta på"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "tänka ut"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "uppfinna"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "tasarlamak"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "use the intellect to plan or design",
"word": "đề ra"
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{
"code": "vi",
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"word": "vạch ra"
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"word": "devisya"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to scheme, to plot",
"word": "pianificare"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to scheme, to plot",
"word": "whakangārahu"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to scheme, to plot",
"word": "tramar"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to scheme, to plot",
"word": "maquinar"
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{
"code": "bg",
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"sense": "leave in a will",
"word": "завещавам"
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"word": "testamentere"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "testamentata"
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{
"code": "de",
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{
"code": "de",
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"word": "durch Testament verfügen"
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"code": "he",
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"word": "הוריש"
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"code": "sk",
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"etymology_text": "PIE word\n *dwóh₁\nFrom Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devisō, from Latin dīvisō, frequentative of dīvidō.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "devises",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"de‧vise"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "device"
},
{
"word": "devising"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The act of leaving real property in a will."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Such a will, or a clause in such a will."
],
"links": [
[
"clause",
"clause"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The real property left in such a will."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Carl Anderson, Fragments of a Scattered Brain, page 83",
"text": "I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Design, devising."
],
"links": [
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"Design",
"design"
],
[
"devising",
"devising"
]
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/dɪˈvaɪz/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪz"
},
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/41/En-us-devise.ogg/En-us-devise.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/En-us-devise.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
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"text": "Audio (US)"
}
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"wikipedia": [
"devise"
],
"word": "devise"
}
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