See lacuna in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"(particularly anatomy) A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.",
"(microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light."
]
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"text": "Long lacunae in this inscription make interpretation difficult.",
"type": "example"
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"A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.",
"An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar."
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[
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"ref": "2008 March 23, Elizabeth Day, “The great French love affair with la vie anglaise”, in The Observer, →ISSN:",
"text": "For Beatrice Nutter, there will always be conspicuous lacunae in our mutual understanding, but after almost 30 years here, the anomalies now delight rather than confound her.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, volume 41, number 7, →DOI, page 577:",
"text": "If the researcher cannot adequately hear a specific conversation due to its low volume or other acoustic interference, then this data point can be passed over with the understanding that such lacunae will be randomly distributed over the data collecting period.",
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"A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.",
"Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing."
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[
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[
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"missing"
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"A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.",
"(figurative) Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing."
],
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"en:Translation studies"
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"A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.",
"A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language."
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"A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.",
"(linguistics, translation studies) A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language."
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{
"word": "anisomorphism"
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"linguistics",
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"ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiāngxì",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
"word": "腔隙"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "same word for small and large openings",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
"word": "aukko"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
"word": "lakuno"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kelên"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakune"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "opening, pit, depression",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakune"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiāngxì",
"sense": "space between cells",
"word": "腔隙"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "space between cells",
"word": "lakuuni"
},
{
"alt": "(в текст)",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "propusk",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"word": "пропуск"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "quēwén",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"word": "缺文"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lacune"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"word": "aukko"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kenó",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "κενό"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chásma",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "χάσμα"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lacūna"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakune"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakune"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "absent part in a book",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "lakun"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "language gap",
"word": "詞彙空缺"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cíhuì kòngquē",
"sense": "language gap",
"word": "词汇空缺"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "taalhiaat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "language gap",
"word": "leksikaalinen aukko"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lexikalische Lücke"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kenó",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "κενό"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lacuna lexicala"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vacío léxico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "laguna léxica"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "language gap",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "lexikal lucka"
}
],
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}
Download raw JSONL data for lacuna meaning in English (10.2kB)
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