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"ipa": "/ˌlɛf(t) ˈtɜːn/",
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},
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "command to a soldier or other person who is marching: turn ninety degrees to your left!",
"word": "käännös vasempaan päin"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "command to a soldier or other person who is marching: turn ninety degrees to your left!",
"word": "balra át"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nalévo",
"sense": "command to a soldier or other person who is marching: turn ninety degrees to your left!",
"word": "нале́во"
}
],
"word": "left turn"
}
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"English lemmas",
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"Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)n",
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{
"ref": "[1641, Ben[jamin] Johnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Timber: Or, Discoveries; Made vpon Men and Matter: […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 108–109",
"text": "Let them but remember Lewis the eleventh, who to a Clarke of the Exchequer, that came to be Lord Treaſurer, and had (for his device) repreſented himſelfe ſitting upon fortunes wheele: told him, hee might doe well to faſten it with a good ſtrong nayle, left turning about it, it might bring him, where hee was againe. As indeed it did.]",
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"ref": "1999, Leslie Thomas, chapter 1, in Other Times, London: Arrow Books, published 2011, page 3",
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"To turn ninety degrees to one's left, especially in response to a military command while marching."
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"(intransitive, chiefly military) To turn ninety degrees to one's left, especially in response to a military command while marching."
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to turn ninety degrees to one's left",
"word": "kääntyä vasempaan"
}
],
"word": "left turn"
}
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