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"ref": "2013, Craig Brown, Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings, page 107",
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"ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576",
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},
{
"categories": [
"en:Mining"
],
"glosses": [
"A kind of pick for shaping large coal."
],
"links": [
[
"mining",
"mining#Noun"
],
[
"pick",
"pick"
],
[
"shaping",
"shape"
],
[
"coal",
"coal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal."
],
"senseid": [
"en:type of pick in mining"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"mining"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2015, Frank Bennett, Alfred Pinion, Roof Slating and Tiling, page 7",
"text": "At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who dresses or prepares stone."
],
"links": [
[
"stone",
"stone"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:person who dresses stone"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹɛsə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛsə(ɹ)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dresser.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dresser.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dresser.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dresser.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dresser.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "wardrobe assistant in a theatre",
"word": "pukija"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "wardrobe assistant in a theatre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "habilleur"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "wardrobe assistant in a theatre",
"word": "öltöztető"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "wardrobe assistant in a theatre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "éadaitheoir"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "wardrobe assistant in a theatre",
"word": "camerinista"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"dresser"
],
"word": "dresser"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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