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"text": "It's not polite to use a mobile phone in a restaurant.",
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"text": "I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.",
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"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "those exercises plied, which polite men's spirits",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To polish; to refine; to render polite."
],
"links": [
[
"polish",
"polish"
],
[
"refine",
"refine"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, transitive) To polish; to refine; to render polite."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pəˈlaɪt/"
},
{
"audio": "En-polite.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/34/En-polite.ogg/En-polite.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/En-polite.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪt"
}
],
"word": "polite"
}
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