See interstice in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "small opening or space",
"word": "rako"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "interstice"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "interstici"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "interstițiu"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zazór",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зазо́р"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "promežútok",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "промежу́ток"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "crevice",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rasščélina",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "расще́лина"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eadar-fhosgladh"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "intersticio"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "mellanrum"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "springa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small opening or space",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "glipa"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "promeždutǎk",
"sense": "fragment of space",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "промеждутък"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fragment of space",
"word": "rakonen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Roman Catholicism: interval between attainment of different degrees of an order",
"word": "odotusaika"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small interval of time",
"word": "väli"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small interval of time",
"word": "rako"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small interval of time",
"word": "tauko"
},
{
"alt": "временно́й (vremennój)",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "promežútok",
"sense": "small interval of time",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "промежу́ток"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"interstice"
],
"word": "interstice"
}
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