See shell-like in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for shell-like meaning in English (3.0kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shell",
"3": "like"
},
"expansion": "shell + -like",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "shell + -like",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more shell-like",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most shell-like",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shell-like (comparative more shell-like, superlative most shell-like)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Having a similar shape to a seashell."
],
"id": "en-shell-like-en-adj-93j3u5d7",
"links": [
[
"seashell",
"seashell"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 65 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 49 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -like",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell."
],
"id": "en-shell-like-en-adj-kkdoVAcf",
"links": [
[
"ear",
"ear"
],
[
"graceful",
"graceful"
],
[
"convolution",
"convolution"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary, dated) Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell."
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"literary"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-shell-like.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/En-au-shell-like.ogg/En-au-shell-like.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/En-au-shell-like.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "shelllike"
}
],
"word": "shell-like"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shell",
"3": "like"
},
"expansion": "shell + -like",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "shell + -like",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shell-likes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shell-like (plural shell-likes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Australian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "7 49 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -like",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Can I have a quick word in your shell-like, when you've got a moment?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The ear."
],
"id": "en-shell-like-en-noun--2UcDnx~",
"links": [
[
"ear",
"ear"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, British, Australia, especially in set phrases) The ear."
],
"raw_tags": [
"in set phrases"
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"British",
"especially",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-shell-like.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/En-au-shell-like.ogg/En-au-shell-like.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/En-au-shell-like.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "shelllike"
}
],
"word": "shell-like"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -like",
"English terms with audio links"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shell",
"3": "like"
},
"expansion": "shell + -like",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "shell + -like",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more shell-like",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most shell-like",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shell-like (comparative more shell-like, superlative most shell-like)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Having a similar shape to a seashell."
],
"links": [
[
"seashell",
"seashell"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English literary terms"
],
"glosses": [
"Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell."
],
"links": [
[
"ear",
"ear"
],
[
"graceful",
"graceful"
],
[
"convolution",
"convolution"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary, dated) Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell."
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"literary"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-shell-like.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/En-au-shell-like.ogg/En-au-shell-like.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/En-au-shell-like.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shelllike"
}
],
"word": "shell-like"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -like",
"English terms with audio links"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shell",
"3": "like"
},
"expansion": "shell + -like",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "shell + -like",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shell-likes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shell-like (plural shell-likes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"British English",
"English slang"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Can I have a quick word in your shell-like, when you've got a moment?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The ear."
],
"links": [
[
"ear",
"ear"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, British, Australia, especially in set phrases) The ear."
],
"raw_tags": [
"in set phrases"
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"British",
"especially",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-shell-like.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/En-au-shell-like.ogg/En-au-shell-like.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/En-au-shell-like.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shelllike"
}
],
"word": "shell-like"
}
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.