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},
{
"enpr": "ŏbʹlĭ-gĭt"
}
],
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"sense": "force, compel",
"word": "also: force: Synonyms"
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadǎlžavam",
"sense": "to bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie",
"word": "задължавам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie",
"word": "velvoittaa"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ypochreóno",
"sense": "to bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie",
"word": "υποχρεώνω"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie",
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},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie",
"word": "teneo"
},
{
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zobowiązywać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zobowiązać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie",
"word": "obrigação"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation",
"word": "obrigação"
}
],
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"obligate"
],
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}
{
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{
"word": "optional § Antonyms"
}
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"English adjectives",
"English doublets",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English heteronyms",
"English lemmas",
"English terms borrowed from Latin",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs"
],
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{
"word": "obligate carrier"
}
],
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"name": "bor"
},
{
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},
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},
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"name": "doublet"
}
],
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{
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"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"superlative"
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"word": "oblige"
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{
"word": "obligee"
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{
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},
{
"word": "obligor"
}
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Biology"
],
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"ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 171",
"text": "[A]nalysis of the chemical composition of their bones reveals that they were obligate carnivores.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
"links": [
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"biology",
"biology"
]
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"(biology) Requiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc.."
],
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"biology",
"natural-sciences"
]
},
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"English terms with usage examples"
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},
{
"text": "In some languages such signaling is optional, whereas in others it is obligate.",
"type": "example"
},
{
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"text": "Aquatic sites constitute obligate habitat for some species, and are critical breeding habitat for species with complex life cycles involving aquatic egg or larval development.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Ulrich Sommer, Plankton Ecology: Succession in Plankton Communities, page 351",
"text": "Unlike for phagotrophic flagellates, bacteria serve as a facultative rather than an obligate food source for crustacean zooplankton.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, K.C. Marshall, editor, Advances in Microbial Ecology, volume 11, page 472",
"text": "Light is the obligate energy source for the phototrophic microbes constructing these benthic mats",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked."
],
"links": [
[
"Indispensable",
"indispensable"
],
[
"essential",
"essential"
],
[
"necessary",
"necessary"
],
[
"obligatory",
"obligatory"
],
[
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"mandatory"
],
[
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"unavoidably"
],
[
"invoked",
"invoke#Verb"
]
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"verb"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɒb.lɪ.ɡɪt/",
"tags": [
"adjective"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"verb"
]
},
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},
{
"enpr": "ŏbʹlĭ-gĭt"
}
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"word": "optional § Synonyms"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role",
"word": "obligat"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role",
"word": "tvungen"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role",
"word": "uten valgmulighet"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obligátnyj",
"sense": "Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "облига́тный"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadǎlžen",
"sense": "Absolutely indispensable; essential",
"word": "задължен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neotmenen",
"sense": "Absolutely indispensable; essential",
"word": "неотменен"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Absolutely indispensable; essential",
"word": "obligaatti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Absolutely indispensable; essential",
"word": "välttämätön"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Absolutely indispensable; essential",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "exigido"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Absolutely indispensable; essential",
"word": "essencial"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"obligate"
],
"word": "obligate"
}
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