See flank in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
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"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To attack the flank(s) of."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To attack the flank(s) of."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "69 21 5 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "hyökätä sivustaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 21 5 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "in der Flanke angreifen"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 21 5 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "oldalról támad"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 21 5 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "aggirare il fianco"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 21 5 5",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "flankować"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 21 5 5",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "oskrzydlać"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 21 5 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "flanquear"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 21 5 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obojti s flangov",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "обойти с флангов"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 21 5 5",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "pigghiari i cianchi"
}
]
},
{
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"glosses": [
"To defend the flank(s) of."
],
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"(transitive) To defend the flank(s) of."
],
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"transitive"
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"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "15 77 4 5",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pazja flanga",
"sense": "to defend the flank(s)",
"word": "пазя фланга"
},
{
"_dis1": "15 77 4 5",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to defend the flank(s)",
"word": "flanquejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "15 77 4 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to defend the flank(s)",
"word": "proteggere il fianco"
},
{
"_dis1": "15 77 4 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to defend the flank(s)",
"word": "flanquear"
},
{
"_dis1": "15 77 4 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "flankirovatʹ",
"sense": "to defend the flank(s)",
"word": "фланкировать"
},
{
"_dis1": "15 77 4 5",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to defend the flank(s)",
"word": "difènniri u ciancu"
}
]
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{
"ref": "c. 1728, Christopher Pitt, Epistle to Mr. Spence:",
"text": "Stately colonnades are flank'd with trees.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Express Travel on Slow Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 184:",
"text": "[...] Mr. M. N. Rollason points out that on four-track lines on which the fast lines, in the centre, are flanked by the slow lines, and running at speed is permissible on all four, the traveller can enjoy some quite exciting experiences when trains are doing a \"neck-and-neck\" on adjacent lines.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Wisbech & Upwell Tramway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 46:",
"text": "It was a rural railway that served the fertile Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. But because it flanked public roads and was unfenced (to save costs), it was deemed a tramway and its locomotives had to be fitted with a cowcatcher.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To place to the side(s) of."
],
"id": "en-flank-en-verb-45wX2Gjg",
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"(transitive) To place to the side(s) of."
],
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"_dis1": "3 3 60 33",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to place to the side(s) of something",
"word": "flankere"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 60 33",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to place to the side(s) of something",
"word": "flankieren"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 60 33",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to place to the side(s) of something",
"word": "fiancheggiare"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 60 33",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to place to the side(s) of something",
"word": "acciancari"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 60 33",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to place to the side(s) of something",
"word": "flankera"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 60 33",
"code": "rif",
"lang": "Tarifit",
"sense": "to place to the side(s) of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aɣezdis"
}
]
},
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"To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side)."
],
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"(intransitive) To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side)."
],
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],
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"_dis1": "3 4 32 60",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "graniča",
"sense": "to be placed to the side(s) of something",
"word": "гранича"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 32 60",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to be placed to the side(s) of something",
"word": "flanquejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 32 60",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to be placed to the side(s) of something",
"word": "flankere"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 32 60",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be placed to the side(s) of something",
"word": "szegélyez"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 32 60",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be placed to the side(s) of something",
"word": "affiancare"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 32 60",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be placed to the side(s) of something",
"word": "ladear"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 32 60",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be placed to the side(s) of something",
"word": "flanquear"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 32 60",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to be placed to the side(s) of something",
"word": "acciancari"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 32 60",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to be placed to the side(s) of something",
"word": "flankera"
}
]
}
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "straddle"
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"word": "flanck"
}
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{
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flank eruption"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flank speed"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "oblique flank"
}
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}
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Anatomy",
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"parents": [
"Biology",
"Medicine",
"Sciences",
"Healthcare",
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{
"_dis": "23 14 23 5 5 3 2 9 3 1 3 1 9",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Cuts of meat",
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"Foods",
"Eating",
"Food and drink",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
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}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "81 2 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"sense": "flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "flank steak"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Holonym: side"
},
{
"text": "Coordinate term: loin (coordinate especially in butchery; not consistently differentiated regarding the human body)"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip."
],
"id": "en-flank-en-noun-en:anatomy",
"links": [
[
"anatomy",
"anatomy"
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[
"lateral",
"lateral"
],
[
"flesh",
"flesh"
],
[
"rib",
"rib"
],
[
"hip",
"hip"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(anatomy) The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip."
],
"senseid": [
"en:anatomy"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "latus"
}
],
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"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵāṣira",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "خَاصِرَة"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "kašḥ",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "كَشْح"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hǎlbok",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хълбок"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "nam",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "နံ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "asquageni",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "ᎠᏍᏆᎨᏂ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiéfù",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "胁腹"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yāowō",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "腰窝"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "slabina"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bok"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "flanke"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "külg"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "kylki"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "kuve"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "flanc"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "illarga"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vao"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vougo"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Flanke"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "plevrá",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πλευρά"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "keneṓn",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κενεών"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "lagṓn",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "λαγών"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "lapárā",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "λᾰπᾰ́ρᾱ"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "pleurón",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πλευρόν"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "lágyék"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
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"word": "véknya"
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"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
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"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
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"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "fianco"
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"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "脇腹"
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"word": "横腹"
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
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"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
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"word": "šónas"
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"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "mi",
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"word": "kaokao"
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"word": "hūhā"
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "papa"
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"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "ota",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "بوگور"
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{
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"code": "ota",
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"word": "پهلو"
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{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Flank"
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{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bok"
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{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "flanco"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "flanc"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "latură"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bočók",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бочо́к"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "slios"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ciancu"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "costado"
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{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "hipik-hipikan"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "böğür"
},
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"_dis1": "82 1 5 5 1 1 4 1",
"code": "wbk",
"lang": "Waigali",
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"word": "puṇë"
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"sense": "edge of military formation",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "edge of military formation",
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"word": "flanc"
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{
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"sense": "edge of military formation",
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],
"word": "flanco"
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"sense": "edge of military formation",
"tags": [
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "szárny"
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"sense": "edge of military formation",
"word": "fianco"
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{
"_dis1": "7 3 71 10 1 1 8 1",
"code": "la",
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"sense": "edge of military formation",
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"word": "cornu"
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{
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "edge of military formation",
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],
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{
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "edge of military formation",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "skrzydło"
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"sense": "edge of military formation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "flanco"
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{
"_dis1": "7 3 71 10 1 1 8 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "flang",
"sense": "edge of military formation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фланг"
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{
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"sense": "edge of military formation",
"tags": [
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"_dis1": "7 3 71 10 1 1 8 1",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "edge of military formation",
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"word": "flanco"
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{
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"sense": "edge of military formation",
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],
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]
},
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"Fundamental"
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[
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[
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[
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],
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"(military) The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects."
],
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"word": "sivu"
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"ref": "1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:",
"text": "Cautiously I approached the flank of the cliffs, where they terminated in an abrupt escarpment as though some all powerful hand had broken off a great section of rock and set it upon the surface of the earth.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “\"Condor\"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48:",
"text": "Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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],
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "jānib",
"sense": "side of something",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "جَانِب"
},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "strana",
"sense": "side of something",
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{
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"sense": "side of something",
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{
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"sense": "side of something",
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{
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"sense": "side of something",
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{
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"sense": "side of something",
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{
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{
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"ref": "2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Wisbech & Upwell Tramway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 46:",
"text": "It was a rural railway that served the fertile Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. But because it flanked public roads and was unfenced (to save costs), it was deemed a tramway and its locomotives had to be fitted with a cowcatcher.",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "hyökätä sivustaan"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "in der Flanke angreifen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "oldalról támad"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "aggirare il fianco"
},
{
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"word": "flankować"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "oskrzydlać"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "flanquear"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
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"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "to attack the flank(s)",
"word": "pigghiari i cianchi"
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"roman": "pazja flanga",
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"word": "пазя фланга"
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{
"code": "it",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to be placed to the side(s) of something",
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"code": "pt",
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"ref": "1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
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"masculine"
],
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"word": "နံ"
},
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "ᎠᏍᏆᎨᏂ"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "xiéfù",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "胁腹"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "腰窝"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
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],
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "bok"
},
{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "külg"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "kuve"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "flanc"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
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"feminine"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vougo"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Flanke"
},
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "plevrá",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πλευρά"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "keneṓn",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κενεών"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "lagṓn",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "λαγών"
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"code": "grc",
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"code": "grc",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "véknya"
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{
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "horpasz"
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "huppur"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "fianco"
},
{
"alt": "わきばら",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "wakibara",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "脇腹"
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"alt": "よこばら",
"code": "ja",
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"word": "横腹"
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip",
"word": "papa"
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"code": "ota",
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