See fish-scale in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for fish-scale meaning in English (2.0kB)
{ "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "fish-scale (not comparable)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "52 48", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27", "text": "The station also boasts a large semi-domed French pavilion roof with fish-scale tiles and iron cresting, plus a rectangular hall with arcaded upper storey and wooden lantern.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Usually of roofing tiles or shingles, shaped and laid in such a way that they resemble the scales of a fish." ], "id": "en-fish-scale-en-adj-55rb2rju", "links": [ [ "roofing", "roofing" ], [ "tile", "tile" ], [ "shingle", "shingle" ] ], "tags": [ "not-comparable" ] } ], "word": "fish-scale" } { "forms": [ { "form": "fish-scales", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "fish-scale (plural fish-scales)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "extra": "uncut cocaine", "word": "fishscale" } ], "categories": [ { "_dis": "52 48", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2015, Duane Swierczynski, Canary, unnumbered page", "text": "\"You can get anything on here—isn't it incredible?\" Slick Guy continues. \"I couldn't believe it, either. I mean anything. MDMA from Holland, high-end weed, fish-scale coke, whatever.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of fishscale: uncut cocaine." ], "id": "en-fish-scale-en-noun-LhjbcF5s", "links": [ [ "fishscale", "fishscale#English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "fish-scale" }
{ "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English uncomparable adjectives" ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "fish-scale (not comparable)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27", "text": "The station also boasts a large semi-domed French pavilion roof with fish-scale tiles and iron cresting, plus a rectangular hall with arcaded upper storey and wooden lantern.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Usually of roofing tiles or shingles, shaped and laid in such a way that they resemble the scales of a fish." ], "links": [ [ "roofing", "roofing" ], [ "tile", "tile" ], [ "shingle", "shingle" ] ], "tags": [ "not-comparable" ] } ], "word": "fish-scale" } { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English uncomparable adjectives" ], "forms": [ { "form": "fish-scales", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "fish-scale (plural fish-scales)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "extra": "uncut cocaine", "word": "fishscale" } ], "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2015, Duane Swierczynski, Canary, unnumbered page", "text": "\"You can get anything on here—isn't it incredible?\" Slick Guy continues. \"I couldn't believe it, either. I mean anything. MDMA from Holland, high-end weed, fish-scale coke, whatever.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of fishscale: uncut cocaine." ], "links": [ [ "fishscale", "fishscale#English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "fish-scale" }
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.