"penetration" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pɛnɪˈtɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ [UK] Forms: penetrations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle English penetracioun, from Old French penetracïon, and its source, Latin penetrātiō, from the participle stem of penetrō (“pierce”, verb). Morphologically penetrate + -ion Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₂-}}, {{inh|en|enm|penetracioun}} Middle English penetracioun, {{der|en|fro|penetracïon}} Old French penetracïon, {{der|en|la|penetrātiō}} Latin penetrātiō, {{m|la|penetrō|pos=verb|t=pierce}} penetrō (“pierce”, verb), {{suffix|en|penetrate|ion|nocat=1}} penetrate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} penetration (countable and uncountable, plural penetrations)
  1. The act of penetrating something. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-penetration-en-noun-b0u4RN~w
  2. Specifically, the insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-penetration-en-noun-GELp6Cc6
  3. The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-penetration-en-noun-l4d3aLBu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 2 15 13 37 31
  4. The act of progressing or moving forward through or into something. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-penetration-en-noun-0cgzYdt3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 2 15 13 37 31
  5. (blackjack) A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-penetration-en-noun-wBSYnNX3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 2 15 13 37 31 Topics: blackjack, games
  6. (marketing) The proportion of the target audience who buy or use the specified product or service. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Marketing
    Sense id: en-penetration-en-noun-12yR5fuc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 2 15 13 37 31 Topics: business, marketing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (act of penetrating): اِخْتِرَاقْ (alt: جِنْسِيّ) (Arabic), прони́кване (proníkvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), penetració [feminine] (Catalan), 滲透 (Chinese Mandarin), 渗透 (shèntòu) (Chinese Mandarin), penetro (Esperanto), läpäisy (Finnish), lävistys (Finnish), pénétration [feminine] (French), penetraţiya (Gagauz), penetración [feminine] (Galician), Penetration [feminine] (German), διείσδυση (dieísdysi) [feminine] (Greek), behatolás (Hungarian), penetrasi (Indonesian), penetrazione (Italian), 浸透 (shintō) (alt: しんとう) (Japanese), 貫通 (kantsū) (alt: かんつう) (Japanese), penetrasyon (Ladino), penetratio (Latin), penerobosan (Malay), penembusan (Malay), penyusupan [military, war, government, politics] (Malay), penusukan (Malay), pemantakan (english: medical) (Malay), pengumbian [philosophy, human-sciences, sciences] (Malay), penetracja [feminine] (Polish), penetração [feminine] (Portuguese), penetrare [feminine] (Romanian), penetrație [feminine] (Romanian), проника́ние (pronikánije) [neuter] (Russian), проникнове́ние (proniknovénije) [neuter] (Russian), penetración [feminine] (Spanish), genomträngning (Swedish), penetrasyon (Turkish)

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          "ref": "1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown",
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      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Penetration"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "dieísdysi",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "διείσδυση"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penetrazione"
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      "alt": "しんとう",
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      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "浸透"
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      "word": "貫通"
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      "lang": "Malay",
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      "word": "penerobosan"
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      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penembusan"
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      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "topics": [
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      "word": "penyusupan"
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      "word": "penusukan"
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      "word": "pengumbian"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "проника́ние"
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Any penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of penetrating something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "penetrating",
          "penetrate"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Specifically, the insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "penis",
          "penis"
        ],
        [
          "sexual intercourse",
          "sexual intercourse"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown",
          "text": "I have no respect for the penetration of any man who can read the report of that conversation, and still call the principal in it insane.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mind",
          "mind"
        ],
        [
          "perception",
          "perception"
        ],
        [
          "discernment",
          "discernment"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Arsenal lacked urgency and penetration in a lazy, lacklustre opening half, sucked in by Forest's strategy of sitting back in blocks of defence waiting to hit them on the counter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of progressing or moving forward through or into something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(blackjack) A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "blackjack",
        "games"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Marketing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1950 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: Railway Electrification in Morocco”, in Railway Magazine, page 214",
          "text": "The electrification of the lines radiating from Casablanca originated with the policy of economic penetration and conciliation pursued by Marshal Lyautey for the pacification of Morocco.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The proportion of the target audience who buy or use the specified product or service."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "marketing",
          "marketing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "proportion",
          "proportion"
        ],
        [
          "target",
          "target"
        ],
        [
          "audience",
          "audience"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(marketing) The proportion of the target audience who buy or use the specified product or service."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "marketing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɛnɪˈtɹeɪʃ(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "alt": "جِنْسِيّ",
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "اِخْتِرَاقْ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "proníkvane",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "прони́кване"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penetració"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "滲透"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shèntòu",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "渗透"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penetro"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "läpäisy"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "lävistys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pénétration"
    },
    {
      "code": "gag",
      "lang": "Gagauz",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penetraţiya"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penetración"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Penetration"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "dieísdysi",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "διείσδυση"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "behatolás"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penetrasi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penetrazione"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しんとう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shintō",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "浸透"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かんつう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kantsū",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "貫通"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penetrasyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penetratio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penerobosan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penembusan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "topics": [
        "military",
        "war",
        "government",
        "politics"
      ],
      "word": "penyusupan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penusukan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "english": "medical",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "pemantakan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "topics": [
        "philosophy",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "word": "pengumbian"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penetracja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penetração"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penetrare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penetrație"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pronikánije",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "проника́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "proniknovénije",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "проникнове́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penetración"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "genomträngning"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "act of penetrating",
      "word": "penetrasyon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "penetration"
}
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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": iḵtirāq (jinsiyy) vs. جِنْسِيّ",
  "path": [
    "penetration"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "penetration",
  "trace": ""
}

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