See narrow-gauge in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "narrow-gauge (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Rail transportation",
"orig": "en:Rail transportation",
"parents": [
"Transport",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "85 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "83 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "84 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "89 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "77 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Belarusian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "79 21",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "77 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "78 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "75 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "77 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Pannonian Rusyn translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "75 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "85 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "78 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:",
"text": "On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge."
],
"id": "en-narrow-gauge-en-adj-Ty1xOERT",
"links": [
[
"rail transport",
"rail transport"
],
[
"narrow gauge",
"narrow gauge"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rail transport) Relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"rail-transport",
"railways",
"transport"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "vuzkakaljéjny",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "вузкакале́йны"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "úzkokolejný"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "schmalspurig"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "Schmalspur-"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "keskeny nyomtávú"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "keskeny nyomtávolságú"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "keskeny nyomközű"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "smalsporet"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "rsk",
"lang": "Pannonian Rusyn",
"roman": "uzkokoljajovi",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "узкоколяйови"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "wąskotorowy"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uzkokoléjnyj",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "узкоколе́йный"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vuzʹkokolíjnyj",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "вузькоколі́йний"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Luc van Doorslaer, Peter Flynn, Eurocentrism in Translation Studies, →ISBN, page 6:",
"text": "It seems to the editors that this is somehow curiously reminiscent of Whorf's defense of Native American languages and cultures in the face of narrow-gauge views on language and culture at the time, without going so far as to take a strict Sapir-Whorfian stance that might posit unbridgeable gaps in translation theory and practice from one culture to the next.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Limited or petty."
],
"id": "en-narrow-gauge-en-adj-TqfgonpF",
"links": [
[
"Limited",
"limited"
],
[
"petty",
"petty"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"word": "narrow-gauge"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Belarusian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Pannonian Rusyn translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "narrow-gauge (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Rail transportation"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:",
"text": "On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge."
],
"links": [
[
"rail transport",
"rail transport"
],
[
"narrow gauge",
"narrow gauge"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rail transport) Relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"rail-transport",
"railways",
"transport"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Luc van Doorslaer, Peter Flynn, Eurocentrism in Translation Studies, →ISBN, page 6:",
"text": "It seems to the editors that this is somehow curiously reminiscent of Whorf's defense of Native American languages and cultures in the face of narrow-gauge views on language and culture at the time, without going so far as to take a strict Sapir-Whorfian stance that might posit unbridgeable gaps in translation theory and practice from one culture to the next.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Limited or petty."
],
"links": [
[
"Limited",
"limited"
],
[
"petty",
"petty"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "vuzkakaljéjny",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "вузкакале́йны"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "úzkokolejný"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "schmalspurig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "Schmalspur-"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "keskeny nyomtávú"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "keskeny nyomtávolságú"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "keskeny nyomközű"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "smalsporet"
},
{
"code": "rsk",
"lang": "Pannonian Rusyn",
"roman": "uzkokoljajovi",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "узкоколяйови"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "wąskotorowy"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uzkokoléjnyj",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "узкоколе́йный"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vuzʹkokolíjnyj",
"sense": "(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge",
"word": "вузькоколі́йний"
}
],
"word": "narrow-gauge"
}
Download raw JSONL data for narrow-gauge meaning in English (4.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). 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.