"foreshock" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + shock.",
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    {
      "form": "foreshocks",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A small earth tremor which precedes the mainshock in an earthquake sequence. Not all mainshocks have foreshocks."
      ],
      "id": "en-foreshock-en-noun-HdMZU6Gf",
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          "geology",
          "geology"
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          "earth tremor",
          "earth tremor"
        ],
        [
          "mainshock",
          "mainshock"
        ],
        [
          "earthquake",
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        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A small earth tremor which precedes the mainshock in an earthquake sequence. Not all mainshocks have foreshocks."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qiánzhèn",
          "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
          "word": "前震"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
          "word": "esijäristys"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "proseismós",
          "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "προσεισμός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
          "word": "előrengés"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "réamhchrith"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "alt": "ぜんしん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "zenshin",
          "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
          "word": "前震"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
          "word": "sismo inicial"
        },
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          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
          "word": "sismo premonitor"
        }
      ]
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          "ref": "1991, D. Roderick Kiewiet, Mathew D. McCubbins, The Logic of Delegation - Page 88",
          "text": "The FY 1981 increases in defense — something of a \"foreshock\" to the rapid rise in defense spending over the next several years — were prompted by the fall of the Shah in Iran and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any shock or disturbance that precedes an event"
      ],
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          "shock",
          "shock"
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          "disturbance",
          "disturbance"
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "foreshock"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + shock.",
  "forms": [
    {
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  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Geology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small earth tremor which precedes the mainshock in an earthquake sequence. Not all mainshocks have foreshocks."
      ],
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          "geology"
        ],
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        ],
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        ],
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        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A small earth tremor which precedes the mainshock in an earthquake sequence. Not all mainshocks have foreshocks."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
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        }
      ],
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        "Any shock or disturbance that precedes an event"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qiánzhèn",
      "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
      "word": "前震"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
      "word": "esijäristys"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "proseismós",
      "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "προσεισμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
      "word": "előrengés"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "réamhchrith"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぜんしん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "zenshin",
      "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
      "word": "前震"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
      "word": "sismo inicial"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "tremor preceding the mainshock in earthquake",
      "word": "sismo premonitor"
    }
  ],
  "word": "foreshock"
}