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"ref": "2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26",
"text": "The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.",
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"ref": "2010, Florence O'Donoghue, IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921, page 164",
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"ref": "2013 September 19, Audrey Black, “Targeting Oppression”, in Eugene Weekly",
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{
"ref": "2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26",
"text": "The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
"glosses": [
"Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects."
],
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[
"law enforcement",
"law enforcement"
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"(law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects."
],
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"government",
"law-enforcement"
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}
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šabaka",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "شبكة"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šabaka",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
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"Egyptian-Arabic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "شبكة"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"word": "拖網"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tuōwǎng",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"word": "拖网"
},
{
"code": "cop",
"lang": "Coptic",
"roman": "ṣaɣene",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ⲥⲁⲅⲏⲛⲏ"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "slæbevod"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "slæbegarn"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"word": "sleepnet"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"word": "pohjatrooli"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chalut"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bou"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rasca"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "salabardo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sabaleira"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "endeño"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "varredeira"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "patexeira"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "braba"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boliche"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"word": "Schleppnetz"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "sagḗnē",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σαγήνη"
},
{
"code": "ilo",
"lang": "Ilocano",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"word": "daklis"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rete a strascico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sciabica"
},
{
"alt": "ひきあみ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hikiami",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"word": "引き網"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tragula"
},
{
"code": "lut",
"lang": "Lushootseed",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"word": "ʔəxʷadᶻad"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vlak",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "влак"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"word": "kaharoa"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drannet"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "not"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "not"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rasca"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arrastão"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "névod",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "не́вод"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brédenʹ",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бре́день"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "setʹ",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сеть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tral",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "трал"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "red barredera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "red de arrastre"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chinchorro"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "net dragged across the bottom",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "not"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "eftersøgning"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "retata"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "obława"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "redada"
}
],
"word": "dragnet"
}
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"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English verbs"
],
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"1": "en",
"2": "drag",
"3": "net"
},
"expansion": "drag + net",
"name": "compound"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "draynet"
},
"expansion": "Middle English draynet",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "dreynett",
"t": "dragnet"
},
"expansion": "dreynett (“dragnet”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "dræġnet"
},
"expansion": "Old English dræġnet",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "dræġnett",
"t": "dragnet"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dray",
"3": "net"
},
"expansion": "dray + net",
"name": "com"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "dragnät"
},
"expansion": "Swedish dragnät",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "dragnett"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian dragnett",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "dragnet"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic dragnet",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From drag + net, probably based on the model of Middle English draynet, dreynett (“dragnet”), Old English dræġnet, dræġnett (“dragnet”), equivalent to dray + net. Cognate with Swedish dragnät, Norwegian dragnett, from Icelandic dragnet.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dragnets",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "dragnetting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "dragnetted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "dragnetted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Fishing"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Brian Andrews, Ornamental Fish Farming",
"text": "When ponds are cleaned out periodically, fish are trapped or dragnetted and finally the pond is drained to remove all fish.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water."
],
"links": [
[
"fishing",
"fishing#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fishing) To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water."
],
"topics": [
"fishing",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Law enforcement"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Florence O'Donoghue, IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921, page 164",
"text": "In fact, Carty was not the man, but, after a police swoop had dragnetted twenty men suspected of having taken part in the business, he was lodged in Sligo jail and accused of this violence to the lady.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013 September 19, Audrey Black, “Targeting Oppression”, in Eugene Weekly",
"text": "A May Day anti-capitalist protest last year in Seattle saw clashes between police and protesters, and the FBI had been dragnetting potential anarchists.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect."
],
"links": [
[
"law enforcement",
"law enforcement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law enforcement) To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect."
],
"topics": [
"government",
"law-enforcement"
]
}
],
"word": "dragnet"
}
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