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"2": "𐌷𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌰",
"t": "a staff"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌰 (hrugga, “a staff”)",
"name": "cog"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English [Term?], from Old English hrung, from Proto-Germanic *hrungō. Compare Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌰 (hrugga, “a staff”).",
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"roman": "daraja",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "دَرَجَة"
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"roman": "hanačka",
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"word": "tangga"
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"roman": "stǎpalo na podvižna stǎlba",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "стъпало на подвижна стълба"
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "梯級"
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{
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "梯级"
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"sense": "ladder step",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "tremme"
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "sport"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "ŝtupeto"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "puola"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 3 5 2 3 8 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "tikas"
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{
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "poikkipuu"
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{
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "astin"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "ladder step",
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"tags": [
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sapexuri",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "საფეხური"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Sprosse"
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"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"roman": "skalí",
"sense": "ladder step",
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"roman": "klimaktḗr",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "fok"
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{
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "létrafok"
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "trappa"
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "ladder step",
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"word": "þrep"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "anak tangga"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
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"word": "runga"
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"code": "ist",
"lang": "Istriot",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "scaleîn"
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{
"_dis1": "75 3 5 2 3 8 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "scalino"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ladder step",
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"word": "piolo"
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"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "kam cʊəndaə",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "កាំជណ្ដើរ"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "kaupae"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "kaupeka"
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"sense": "ladder step",
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"roman": "gišgüür",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "гишгүүр"
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"code": "no",
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "trin"
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "basamak",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "باصامق"
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"tags": [
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"word": "Spoak"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "szczebel"
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{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "degrau"
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"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "pauṛī",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ਪੌੜੀ"
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"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "ḍaṇḍā",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ਡੰਡਾ"
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{
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "treaptă"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stupénʹka",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ступе́нька"
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"roman": "stupénʹ",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ступе́нь"
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sprušľa"
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"_dis1": "75 3 5 2 3 8 5",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
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"word": "šprusľa"
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"_dis1": "75 3 5 2 3 8 5",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "ladder step",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "peldaño"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "pinne"
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{
"_dis1": "75 3 5 2 3 8 5",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "skas gdang",
"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "སྐས་གདང"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 3 5 2 3 8 5",
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "ladder step",
"tags": [
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{
"_dis1": "75 3 5 2 3 8 5",
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "bậc"
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{
"_dis1": "75 3 5 2 3 8 5",
"code": "cy",
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"ref": "1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Feathertop: a Moralized Legend”, in Mosses from an Old Manse",
"text": "One of its arms was a disabled flail which used to be wielded by Goodman Rigby, before his spouse worried him out of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was composed of the pudding stick and a broken rung of a chair, tied loosely together at the elbow.",
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"word": "poikkipuu"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "crosspiece between chair legs",
"word": "piena"
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"word": "Querstab"
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"word": "runga"
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"word": "poprzeczka"
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"feminine"
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"word": "travessa"
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"sense": "crosspiece between chair legs",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "перекла́дина"
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"text": "the lowest rung of the society",
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"ref": "2023 June 15, Kat Moon, “Ashley Park’s Main Character Energy From ‘Joy Ride’ Is Here To Stay: ‘I’m Treating Myself Like A Lead Now’”, in Women's Health",
"text": "“I’m very proud that I’ve worked on every rung of the ladder,” Ashley says. “When you go to college, you don’t want to be a senior right away—you want to be a freshman.”",
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"sense": "ladder step",
"word": "སྐས་གདང"
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"sense": "crosspiece between chair legs",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "crosspiece between chair legs",
"word": "poikkipuu"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "crosspiece between chair legs",
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"sense": "crosspiece between chair legs",
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "crosspiece between chair legs",
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"word": "poprzeczka"
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"code": "pt",
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"word": "перекла́дина"
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"code": "es",
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"ref": "1906, South Carolina. General Assembly, Report of State Officers, Board and Committees to the General ..., page 229",
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"ref": "1996, Peter Golenbock, Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs, page 435",
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"ref": "2008, Dean Kuipers, Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke, page 70",
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