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"ref": "1894, Yearbook of Agriculture",
"text": "Meatballs may contain ground meat mixed with seasonings, breadcrumbs, mashed potatoes, rice, and liquid. The meat mixture is often shaped, browned. and simmered in a sauce for 30 to 45 minutes over low heat or in a 350° F. oven. During cooking the meat is basted with the sauce occasionally. Meatballs also may be fried in a pan or in deep fat.",
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"text": "1996: Mrs. Miracle. Debbie Macomber. Pg. 101.\nI prefer spaghetti with meatballs instead the meat all crumbled in with the sauce."
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"roman": "kurāt al-laḥm",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "كُرَات اللَحْم"
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"word": "կոլոլակ"
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"word": "အသားဘောလုံး"
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bolabola"
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "juk⁶ jyun²",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "肉丸"
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "肉丸"
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "lihapyörykkä"
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "lihapulla"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "boulette"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "albóndega"
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"english": "xorcis burti",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "ხორცის ბურთი"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"neuter"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
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"word": "Frikadelle"
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"code": "de",
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"note": "north-east German dialect",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Klops"
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"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "keftés",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"roman": "isíkion",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "kjötbolla"
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"code": "id",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bakso"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bola daging"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "millín feola"
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "polpetta"
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"alt": "にくだんご",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nikudango",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "肉団子"
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"roman": "mītobōru",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "ミートボール"
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"code": "pam",
"lang": "Kapampangan",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bola-bola"
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"code": "pam",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "almondigas"
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"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "tefteli",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "тефтели"
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"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "krŏəpbalsac",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "គ្រាប់បាល់សាច់"
},
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "miteubol",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "미트볼"
},
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "kum",
"lang": "Kumyk",
"roman": "küpte",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "кюпте"
},
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"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "et myac",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "эт мяч"
},
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "lūk sīn",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "ລູກຊີ້ນ"
},
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "gaļas bumba"
},
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "lt",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "mėsos kamuolys"
},
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"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Boulette"
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"code": "mk",
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"roman": "ḱofte",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ќофте"
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"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bebola daging"
},
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"code": "mn",
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"roman": "böörönxii max",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "бөөрөнхий мах"
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "kjøttbolle"
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"masculine"
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"word": "kjøttkake"
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"word": "kjøtbolle"
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "ota",
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"roman": "köfte",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "كوفته"
},
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "کلهگنجشکی"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "klops"
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "almôndega"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chiftea"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pârjoală"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "ru",
"english": "boiled",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "frikadɛ́lʹka",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фрикаде́лька"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "ru",
"english": "roasted",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "teftélʹka",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тефте́лька"
},
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"word": "тефтели"
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "бито́к"
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "purpetta"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "albóndiga"
},
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "köttbulle"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bolabola"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "lûuk-chín",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "ลูกชิ้น"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "köfte"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "tjuftelʹky",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "тюфтельки"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "frikadelka"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"usually"
],
"word": "thịt viên"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "vi",
"english": "served with some noodle dishes",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "mọc"
},
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"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pelen gig"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 1 4 3 3",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "klops",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "קלאָפּס"
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]
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"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"A stupid person; a meathead."
],
"id": "en-meatball-en-noun-JdeIliXg",
"links": [
[
"stupid",
"stupid"
],
[
"meathead",
"meathead"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A stupid person; a meathead."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Baseball",
"orig": "en:Baseball",
"parents": [
"Ball games",
"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2020, Alex Hall, “Oakland A’s faced all their nightmares in Game 3 and wrote a new ending”, in Athletics Nation",
"text": "And then. A 98.4 fastball on the inside half of the plate, ring him up, Strike 3, game over. It wasn’t a meatball like Terrence Long watched to finish 2003 ALDS Game 5, but it felt the same.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate."
],
"id": "en-meatball-en-noun-KC0Bf54C",
"links": [
[
"baseball",
"baseball"
],
[
"pitch",
"pitch"
],
[
"hit",
"hit"
],
[
"plate",
"plate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(baseball) An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate."
],
"topics": [
"ball-games",
"baseball",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
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"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
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"ref": "1961, Approach, volume 7",
"text": "During a pitching deck recovery a pilot must average out the meatball oscillations at the ramp in an attempt to maintain his airplane on the desired glide slope.",
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}
],
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"An optical landing system."
],
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"(aviation) An optical landing system."
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"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
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"orig": "en:Graphical user interface",
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"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
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"A menu icon of three horizontal dots."
],
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[
"graphical user interface",
"graphical user interface"
],
[
"menu",
"menu"
]
],
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"(graphical user interface) A menu icon of three horizontal dots."
],
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"computing",
"engineering",
"graphical-user-interface",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
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"tags": [
"Australia"
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}
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"English countable nouns",
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"English nouns",
"English terms with audio links",
"en:Foods",
"en:Meats"
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"word": "meatball flag"
},
{
"word": "meatball surgery"
}
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"2": "ミートボール",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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{
"args": {
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"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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}
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"plural"
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{
"word": "rissole"
}
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1894, Yearbook of Agriculture",
"text": "Meatballs may contain ground meat mixed with seasonings, breadcrumbs, mashed potatoes, rice, and liquid. The meat mixture is often shaped, browned. and simmered in a sauce for 30 to 45 minutes over low heat or in a 350° F. oven. During cooking the meat is basted with the sauce occasionally. Meatballs also may be fried in a pan or in deep fat.",
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},
{
"text": "1996: Mrs. Miracle. Debbie Macomber. Pg. 101.\nI prefer spaghetti with meatballs instead the meat all crumbled in with the sauce."
}
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"ball"
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[
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[
"ground",
"ground"
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[
"meat",
"meat"
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[
"seasoned",
"seasoned"
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[
"cooked",
"cooked"
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"categories": [
"English slang"
],
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"A stupid person; a meathead."
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[
"stupid",
"stupid"
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[
"meathead",
"meathead"
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],
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"slang"
]
},
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"English terms with quotations",
"en:Baseball"
],
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{
"ref": "2020, Alex Hall, “Oakland A’s faced all their nightmares in Game 3 and wrote a new ending”, in Athletics Nation",
"text": "And then. A 98.4 fastball on the inside half of the plate, ring him up, Strike 3, game over. It wasn’t a meatball like Terrence Long watched to finish 2003 ALDS Game 5, but it felt the same.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate."
],
"links": [
[
"baseball",
"baseball"
],
[
"pitch",
"pitch"
],
[
"hit",
"hit"
],
[
"plate",
"plate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(baseball) An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate."
],
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"ball-games",
"baseball",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Aviation"
],
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{
"ref": "1961, Approach, volume 7",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"An optical landing system."
],
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[
"aviation",
"aviation"
]
],
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"(aviation) An optical landing system."
],
"topics": [
"aeronautics",
"aerospace",
"aviation",
"business",
"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
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"en:Graphical user interface"
],
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"A menu icon of three horizontal dots."
],
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[
"graphical user interface",
"graphical user interface"
],
[
"menu",
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]
],
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],
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"engineering",
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"sciences"
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "kurāt al-laḥm",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "كُرَات اللَحْم"
},
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"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "kufta",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "كُفْتة"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kololak",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "կոլոլակ"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "köfte"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "küftə"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "haragi-bola"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "tefteli",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "тэфтэлі"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kjufte",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "кюфте"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "a.sa:bhau:lum:",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "အသားဘောလုံး"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mandonguilla"
},
{
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bolabola"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "juk⁶ jyun²",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "肉丸"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "ròuwán",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "肉丸"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gehaktbal"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "viandobulo"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "frikadell"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "lihapyörykkä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "lihapulla"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boulette"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "albóndega"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"english": "xorcis burti",
"lang": "Georgian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "ხორცის ბურთი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Fleischklößchen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Fleischbällchen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Frikadelle"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"Bavarian",
"dialectal",
"neuter"
],
"word": "Fleischpflanzl"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "north-east German dialect",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Klops"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "keftés",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κεφτές"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "isíkion",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ἰσίκιον"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "קציצה"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "húsgombóc"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "fasírt"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kjötbolla"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bakso"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bola daging"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "millín feola"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "polpetta"
},
{
"alt": "にくだんご",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nikudango",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "肉団子"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mītobōru",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "ミートボール"
},
{
"code": "pam",
"lang": "Kapampangan",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bola-bola"
},
{
"code": "pam",
"lang": "Kapampangan",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "almondigas"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "tefteli",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "тефтели"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "krŏəpbalsac",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "គ្រាប់បាល់សាច់"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "miteubol",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "미트볼"
},
{
"code": "kum",
"lang": "Kumyk",
"roman": "küpte",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "кюпте"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "et myac",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "эт мяч"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "lūk sīn",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "ລູກຊີ້ນ"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "gaļas bumba"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "mėsos kamuolys"
},
{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Boulette"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ḱofte",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ќофте"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bebola daging"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "böörönxii max",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "бөөрөнхий мах"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kjøttbolle"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kjøttkake"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kjøtbolle"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kjøttbolle"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kjøtkake"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kjøttkake"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "köfte",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "كوفته"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "کلهگنجشکی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "klops"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klopsik"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pulpet"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "almôndega"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chiftea"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pârjoală"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "boiled",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "frikadɛ́lʹka",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фрикаде́лька"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "roasted",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "teftélʹka",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тефте́лька"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tefteli",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "тефтели"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "roasted",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bitók",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бито́к"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "purpetta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "albóndiga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "köttbulle"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "bolabola"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "lûuk-chín",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "ลูกชิ้น"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "köfte"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "tjuftelʹky",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "тюфтельки"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "frikadelka"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"usually"
],
"word": "thịt viên"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"english": "served with some noodle dishes",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"word": "mọc"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pelen gig"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "klops",
"sense": "ball of minced or ground meat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "קלאָפּס"
}
],
"word": "meatball"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.