See obtuse in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1623, Charles Butler, “Of the Hiues, and the Dressing of Them”, in The Feminine Monarchie: or, The Historie of Bees: Shewing Their Admirable Nature, and Properties, Their Generation, and Colonies, Their Gouernment, Loyaltie, Art, Industrie, Enemies, Warres, Magnanimitie, &c. […], London, →OCLC, chapter 3, section 11, footnote c; republished Mytholmroyd, U.K.: Northern Bee Books, 1985:",
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"text": "More-over, as the Buildings Ambligon / May more receive then Mansions Oxigon / (Because th' acute, and the rect-Angles too, / Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doe) / So doth the Circle in his Circuit span / More room then any other Figure can.",
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"ref": "1877, Ch[arles] Couche, “Special Points in the Permanent Way”, in James N. Shoolbred, transl., Permanent Way Rolling Stock and Technical Working of Railways. Followed by an Appendix on Works of Art, volume I, London: Dulau & Co., 37, Soho Square; Paris: Dunod, 49, Quai des Augustins, →OCLC, § XIV (Rail-crossings), paragraph 258, page 316:",
"text": "Obtuse angles of the through crossing. — The system of the two obtuse-angled points is especially termed the dead-crossing. […] The point itself, less liable to damage than that of the crossing proper, on account of its obtuse form and its position relatively to the wheels, acts the same part towards the tapered portion of the cut rail, as the wing-rail does with respect to the acute-angle of the crossing.",
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"ref": "1670, Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [Francis Bacon], “Century VIII”, in Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries: Whereunto is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental of [Life] and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. […], 9th and last edition, London: William Rawley, →OCLC, paragraph 766, page 161:",
"text": "For we see a Feather or a Rush drawn along the Lip or Cheek, doth tickle; whereas a thing more obtuse, or a touch more hard, doth not.",
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"ref": "1817, William Cowper, The Task, London: John Sharpe, page 58:",
"text": "See then the quiver broken and decay'd, / In which are kept our arrows! Rusting there / In wild disorder, and unfit for use, / […] Their points obtuse, and feathers drunk with wine!",
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"ref": "1932, Ernest Bramah, chapter XV, in The Moon of Much Gladness: Related by Kai Lung, London: Cassell and Co., →OCLC; republished [s.l.]: Read Books, 2013, →ISBN, section IV:",
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],
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[
"zoology",
"zoology"
],
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"Blunt",
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],
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"(now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form."
],
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"biology",
"botany",
"natural-sciences",
"zoology"
]
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"ref": "1613, [Robert Anton], Moriomachia, imprinted at London: By Simon Stafford, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-14:",
"text": "It was a merry time with Carrmen, Watermen, & Porters: for in this Eclipſe, many of them did nothing but drinke, domineere, and ſwagger in Alehouſes; but the often going to and fro of the Pot, made them talke of that, which they had nothing to doe withall, and many times their obtuſe apprehenſions would be medling with the warres betwixt the great Turke and Preſter Iohn, how it was likely to end; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
"text": "When the elder Osborne gave what he called \"a hint,\" there was no possibility for the most obtuse to mistake his meaning. He called kicking a footman downstairs a hint to the latter to leave his service.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50: As Britain hurtles towards the precipice, truth and democracy are in short supply [editorial]”, in The Observer, London, archived from the original on 2017-08-30:",
"text": "Be you a Remainer or a Leaver, you would have to be particularly obtuse not to see that [Theresa] May's hard Tory Brexit will cost this country and its families more than it can conceivably afford.",
"type": "quote"
}
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],
[
"dull",
"dull"
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[
"dim-witted",
"dim-witted"
]
],
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"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "dense"
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{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
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"tags": [
"informal"
],
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}
],
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "butʻ",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "բութ"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tǎp",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "тъп"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "obtús"
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{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "tupý"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "omezený"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "zabedněný"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "afgestompt"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"tags": [
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"word": "stulta"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "malsprita"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "juhm"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "tülp"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "loid"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "hidasjärkinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "hidasälyinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "obtus"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "obtuse"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "parvo"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "člungi",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "ჩლუნგი"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "q̇eq̇eči",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "ყეყეჩი"
},
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šṭeri",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "შტერი"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "begriffsstutzig"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "beschränkt"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "stumpf"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "schwerfällig"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "koutós",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κουτός"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "amvlýnous",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αμβλύνους"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "sljór"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "tregur"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "ottuso"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "tap",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "тап"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "glup",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "глуп"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "glupav",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "глупав"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "dum"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "sløv"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "treg"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "obtuso"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "bronco"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "parvo"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "obtuz"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tupój",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "тупо́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nedaljókij",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "недалёкий"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "tupý"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "obtuso"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "trög"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "slö"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 13 10 10 52 4 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
"word": "tjockskallig"
}
]
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"ref": "1661, Robert Lovell, “Dynamilogia Pharmaceutica. Or The Whole Use, of All Simples and Compounds Contained in the London Dispensatory, with the Diseases Cured by Them in Alphabetical Order: Together with the Doses and Formes of All Kinds of Remedies.”, in ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, …, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall, for Jos[eph] Godwin, →OCLC, page 517:",
"text": "The ſenſe of the inteſtines, if exquiſite, wants a more gentle remedie; and if dull, a ſtronger: Alſo the ſenſes of the inteſtines are perceived by the courſe of diet; for thoſe that feed upon muſtard, or the like biting and more ſharp meat, without trouble, are of a more obtuſe ſenſe; but thoſe of an exact ſenſe, which preſently perceive the mordacity; and thoſe that are of a mean ſenſe, want a mean doſe.",
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},
{
"ref": "1847 January, “Art. VI.—A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language; to which are added Walker’s Key to the Pronunciation of Classical and Scripture Proper Names, much enlarged and improved; and a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Modern Geographical Names. By Joseph E. Worcester. Boston: Wilkins, Carter, & Co. Imperial 8vo. pp. 955. [book review]”, in The North American Review, volume LXIV, number CXXXIV, Boston, Mass.: Published by Otis, Broaders, and Co., No. 154 Washington Street, →OCLC, page 198:",
"text": "Another addition in Mr. [Joseph Emerson] Worcester's key to the same letter [e] is what he calls the short and obtuse sound, as in her, herd, fern, fervid. Some of these, also, for the sake of indicating the true sound, [John] Walker was obliged to spell with a different vowel. Thus her is directed to be pronounced hur, like u in tub.",
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}
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"lang": "Dutch",
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"word": "gesmoord"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
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"tags": [
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "deadened, muffled, muted",
"word": "tuhm"
},
{
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"lang": "Estonian",
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{
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"lang": "Estonian",
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{
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{
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"sense": "deadened, muffled, muted",
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},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "deadened, muffled, muted",
"word": "vaimennettu"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "deadened, muffled, muted",
"word": "sourd"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "deadened, muffled, muted",
"word": "unterdrückt"
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{
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},
{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "deadened, muffled, muted",
"word": "abgeschwächt"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "deadened, muffled, muted",
"word": "abgestumpft"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "deadened, muffled, muted",
"word": "betäubt"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
"code": "de",
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"word": "abgemildert"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
"code": "de",
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},
{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
"code": "is",
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"sense": "deadened, muffled, muted",
"word": "daufur"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
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"word": "abafado"
},
{
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{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
"code": "ru",
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},
{
"_dis1": "8 19 19 7 11 35 2",
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"sense": "deadened, muffled, muted",
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"ref": "2003, Stephen Jay Gould, “The Fusions of Unum and the Benefits of Pluribus”, in The Hedghog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox: Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN; Harvard University Press edition, Cambridge, Mass., London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011, →ISBN, section III (A Saga of Pluribus and Unum: The Power and Meaning of True Consilience), page 185:",
"text": "[…] The Conchologist's First Book intends to do something different by describing both the shell and the soft parts of each creature together. The claim seems awfully trivial, I admit, and [Edgar Allan] Poe does press his point only by the obtuse route of stressing an expansion of terminology, from the traditional \"conchology\" (literally the study of shells, as retained in the title) to \"malacology\" (or the study of the entire organism—for the animals within the hard shells consist almost entirely of soft parts,[…]).",
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[
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "indirect or circuitous — see also indirect, circuitous",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "malrekta"
},
{
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "indirect or circuitous — see also indirect, circuitous",
"word": "kaudne"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 17 8 7 17 5 40",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "indirect or circuitous — see also indirect, circuitous",
"word": "epäsuora"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 17 8 7 17 5 40",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "indirect or circuitous — see also indirect, circuitous",
"word": "indirekt"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 17 8 7 17 5 40",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "indirect or circuitous — see also indirect, circuitous",
"word": "umständlich"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 17 8 7 17 5 40",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "indirect or circuitous — see also indirect, circuitous",
"word": "weitschweifig"
}
]
}
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]
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"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əbˈt(j)us/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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"biology",
"natural-sciences",
"zoology",
"biology",
"natural-sciences"
],
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},
{
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"biology",
"natural-sciences"
],
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}
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tǎp",
"sense": "not sharp, pointed, or acute in form",
"word": "тъп"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 25 25 24 1 0 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "not sharp, pointed, or acute in form",
"word": "tupý"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 25 25 24 1 0 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
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"word": "malakra"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 25 25 24 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not sharp, pointed, or acute in form",
"word": "tylppä"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 25 25 24 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not sharp, pointed, or acute in form",
"word": "tylsä"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 25 25 24 1 0 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not sharp, pointed, or acute in form",
"word": "hāpūpū"
},
{
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"text": "More-over, as the Buildings Ambligon / May more receive then Mansions Oxigon / (Because th' acute, and the rect-Angles too, / Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doe) / So doth the Circle in his Circuit span / More room then any other Figure can.",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "intellectually dull",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intellectually dull",
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"sense": "intellectually dull",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "intellectually dull",
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"text": "[Gustav von] Bunge […] claims that its [alcohol's] primary action is that of a depressant, and that its apparent good effects are simply due to the obtusing influence upon physical and mental suffering. But this is scarcely a correct assumption, as there are individuals in whom the smallest doses produce palpitation of the heart, throbbing of the carotids, and great mental activity. He also claims that alcohol does not produce renewed vigor in tired individuals, but simply obtuses this feeling of exhaustion.",
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