"rising damp" meaning in English

See rising damp in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} rising damp (uncountable)
  1. A condition caused by ground moisture rising up a masonry wall by capillary action Wikipedia link: rising damp Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-rising_damp-en-noun-svucnjzJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for rising damp meaning in English (0.7kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "rising damp (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A condition caused by ground moisture rising up a masonry wall by capillary action"
      ],
      "id": "en-rising_damp-en-noun-svucnjzJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "moisture",
          "moisture"
        ],
        [
          "masonry",
          "masonry"
        ],
        [
          "wall",
          "wall"
        ],
        [
          "capillary action",
          "capillary action"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "rising damp"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rising damp"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "rising damp (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A condition caused by ground moisture rising up a masonry wall by capillary action"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "moisture",
          "moisture"
        ],
        [
          "masonry",
          "masonry"
        ],
        [
          "wall",
          "wall"
        ],
        [
          "capillary action",
          "capillary action"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "rising damp"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rising damp"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.