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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "system of vital importance",
"word": "elintärkeä järjestelmä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "safety line on the deck of a boat",
"word": "elämänlanka"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spasátelʹnyj tros",
"sense": "safety line on the deck of a boat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спаса́тельный трос"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "safety line on the deck of a boat",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "livlina"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "safety line on the deck of a boat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ligne de vie"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "safety line on the deck of a boat",
"word": "életvonal"
}
],
"word": "lifeline"
}
{
"called_from": "page/2530",
"msg": "skipping string in the middle of translations: </table></div></div>\n\n",
"path": [
"lifeline"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "lifeline",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "page/2517",
"msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: '(palmistry) crease in the palm', 2: 'line of life'}",
"path": [
"lifeline",
"trans-top-see"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "lifeline",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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