See ground zero in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2011 April 21, Suzanne Goldenberg, quoting Jan Jarrett, “Pennsylvania: the ‘ground zero’ of the US shale gas drilling boom”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "\"This is ground zero,\" she said. \"If regulators don't adopt a zero tolerance for violations of standards then what we will have are places that are going to have unacceptable environmental damage.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019 October 17, Matt Stieb, “Florida GOP Regrets ‘Lost’ Decade on Climate Change”, in New York Magazine:",
"text": "Florida has been called a “ground zero” for climate change in America, as the state is expected to face the highest temperature rise in the southeast; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020 January 10, Liz Barney, Michelle Broder Van Dyke, “Welcome to Hawaii's ‘plastic beach’, one of the world's dirtiest places”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "For Larson and other activists, Kamilo Beach has become ground zero of the crisis.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 May 3, Chris McGreal, “‘Ground zero of the opioid epidemic’: West Virginia puts drug giants on trial”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "The two West Virginia local authorities accuse the distributors of turning Cabell county, with a population of just 90,000, into the “ground zero of the opioid epidemic sweeping the nation”, by flooding the area with nearly 100m opioid pills over a decade.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The location of any disaster or violent assault."
],
"links": [
[
"location",
"location"
],
[
"disaster",
"disaster"
],
[
"violent",
"violent"
],
[
"assault",
"assault#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) The location of any disaster or violent assault."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1997 May 4, Adam Nossiter, “Ground Zero”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "James Meredith's forced admission was a milestone in upending the old order in America's most segregated state, a kind of race relations ground zero.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009 March 21, Nicholas Kristof, “Education’s Ground Zero”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "Less than two years into the job, she has transformed Washington into ground zero of America’s education reform movement.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The point at which something begins."
],
"links": [
[
"begin",
"begin"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) The point at which something begins."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"figuratively",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌɡɹaʊnd ˈzɪəɹəʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌɡɹaʊnd ˈzɪɚ(ˌ)oʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ˈzi(ˌ)ɹoʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪəɹəʊ"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ground-zero"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "zero gune"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "爆心投影點"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bàoxīn tóuyǐngdiǎn",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "爆心投影点"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "原爆點"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"note": "of an atomic bomb",
"roman": "yuánbàodiǎn",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "原爆点"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "maalde nul"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "nultero"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "plahvatuse epitsenter"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "nollapiste"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "point zéro"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bodennullpunkt"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "גראונד זירו"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "epicentrum"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "terra zero"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "guraundozero",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "グラウンドゼロ"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "bakushinchi",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "爆心地"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "bakushin-chiten",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "爆心地点"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rakka chiten",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "落下地点"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "geuraundeu jero",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "그라운드 제로"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "solum nihil"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "terra nihil"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "strefa zero"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "ponto de impacto"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "epicéntr vzryva",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "эпице́нтр взрыва"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "ну̏лтӣ та̏чка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "површинска ну̏ла"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "nȕltī tȁčka"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "povrsinska nȕla"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "punto cero"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "tierra cero"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zona cero"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "point on the land or water surface below, at, or above the detonation of a nuclear bomb",
"word": "yer sıfır noktası"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"United States Strategic Bombing Survey"
],
"word": "ground zero"
}
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