"short circuit" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-short circuit.wav Forms: short circuits [plural]
Etymology: short + circuit Head templates: {{en-noun}} short circuit (plural short circuits)
  1. (electrical engineering) A usually unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it. Categories (topical): Electrical engineering, Electricity Synonyms: short Translations (unintentional connection): կարճ միացում (karč miacʻum) (Armenian), каро́ткае замыка́нне (karótkaje zamykánnje) [neuter] (Belarusian), къ́со съедине́ние (kǎ́so sǎedinénie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), curtcircuit [masculine] (Catalan), 短路 (duǎnlù) (Chinese Mandarin), 短接 (duǎnjiē) (Chinese Mandarin), zkrat [masculine] (Czech), kortslutning [common-gender] (Danish), kortsluiting [feminine] (Dutch), kurta cirkvito (Esperanto), lühis (Estonian), lühiühendus (Estonian), oikosulku (Finnish), court-circuit [masculine] (French), მოკლე ჩართვა (moḳle čartva) (Georgian), მოკლე შერთვა (moḳle šertva) (Georgian), Kurzschluss [masculine] (German), βραχυκύκλωμα (vrachykýkloma) [neuter] (Greek), קצר (kétser) [masculine] (Hebrew), rövidzárlat (Hungarian), rövidre zárás (Hungarian), hubungan pendek (Indonesian), korsleting (Indonesian), arus pendek (Indonesian), gearrchiorcad [masculine] (Irish), 短絡 (tanraku) (alt: たんらく) (Japanese), ショート (shōto) (Japanese), қысқаша тұйықталу (qysqaşa tūiyqtalu) (Kazakh), 쇼트 (syoteu) (Korean), 합선 (hapseon) (alt: 合線) (Korean), īssavienojums [masculine] (Latvian), краток спој (kratok spoj) [masculine] (Macedonian), kortslutning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kortslutning [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), cortcircuit [masculine] (Occitan), zwarcie [neuter] (Polish), spięcie [neuter] (Polish), curto-circuito [masculine] (Portuguese), коро́ткое замыка́ние (korótkoje zamykánije) [neuter] (Russian), кратки спој [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kratki spoj [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), skrat [masculine] (Slovak), kratki stik [masculine] (Slovene), cortocircuito [masculine] (Spanish), corto [abbreviation, masculine] (Spanish), syatusroiti (Sranan Tongo), kortslutning [common-gender] (Swedish), laktod (Tagalog), коро́тке замика́ння (korótke zamykánnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), đoản mạch (Vietnamese), cylched fer [feminine] (Welsh)
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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-short circuit.wav Forms: short circuits [present, singular, third-person], short circuiting [participle, present], short circuited [participle, past], short circuited [past]
Etymology: short + circuit Head templates: {{en-verb}} short circuit (third-person singular simple present short circuits, present participle short circuiting, simple past and past participle short circuited)
  1. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in. Tags: transitive Translations (to cause a short circuit in): 短接 (duǎnjiē) (Chinese Mandarin), kortslutte (Danish), lühistama (Estonian), court-circuiter (French), βραχυκυκλώνω (vrachykyklóno) (Greek), gearrchiorcad (Irish), 短絡する (tanraku suru) (Japanese), kortslutte (Norwegian Bokmål), spiąć [perfective] (Polish), zewrzeć [perfective] (Polish), curto-circuitar (Portuguese), spôsobiť skrat (Slovak), kortsluta (Swedish)
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  2. (intransitive) To undergo a short circuit. Tags: intransitive Synonyms: short-circuit, short out Derived forms: short circuit operator Translations (to undergo a short circuit): 短路 (duǎnlù) (Chinese Mandarin)
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  3. (transitive, by extension) To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps. Tags: broadly, transitive
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  4. (transitive, by extension) To impede or disrupt. Tags: broadly, transitive
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  5. (transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Computing
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "code": "eo",
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
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          "lang": "Estonian",
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          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "ka",
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          "roman": "moḳle čartva",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "ka",
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "vrachykýkloma",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "kétser",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
          "word": "rövidzárlat"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "id",
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          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "lang": "Irish",
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          "roman": "tanraku",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shōto",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "qysqaşa tūiyqtalu",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "syoteu",
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          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "hapseon",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "mk",
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          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "word": "zwarcie"
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          "code": "pl",
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          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "word": "spięcie"
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "word": "curto-circuito"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "korótkoje zamykánije",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "word": "кратки спој"
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          "code": "sk",
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          "code": "sl",
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          "code": "es",
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          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "code": "vi",
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          "sense": "unintentional connection",
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          "lang": "Welsh",
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      "word": "къ́со съедине́ние"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "duǎnlù",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "短路"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "duǎnjiē",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "zkrat"
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    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "kortslutning"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "kortsluiting"
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "kurta cirkvito"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "lühis"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "lühiühendus"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "oikosulku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "court-circuit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "moḳle čartva",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "მოკლე ჩართვა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "moḳle šertva",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "მოკლე შერთვა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kurzschluss"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vrachykýkloma",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "βραχυκύκλωμα"
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    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kétser",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "קצר"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "rövidzárlat"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "rövidre zárás"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "hubungan pendek"
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    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "korsleting"
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    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "arus pendek"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gearrchiorcad"
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      "alt": "たんらく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tanraku",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "短絡"
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    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shōto",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "ショート"
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      "code": "kk",
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      "roman": "qysqaşa tūiyqtalu",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "қысқаша тұйықталу"
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "syoteu",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "쇼트"
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      "alt": "合線",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hapseon",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
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      "code": "lv",
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      "sense": "unintentional connection",
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      "code": "mk",
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      "sense": "unintentional connection",
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      "word": "краток спој"
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      "sense": "unintentional connection",
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "unintentional connection",
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      "word": "kortslutning"
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      "code": "oc",
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      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "cortcircuit"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zwarcie"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "spięcie"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "curto-circuito"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "korótkoje zamykánije",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "коро́ткое замыка́ние"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sk",
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      "code": "sl",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "unintentional connection",
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      "word": "cortocircuito"
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      "code": "es",
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      "code": "srn",
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      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "syatusroiti"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "word": "kortslutning"
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "laktod"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "word": "đoản mạch"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "unintentional connection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "cylched fer"
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        "(transitive) To cause a short circuit in."
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      "word": "短接"
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      "sense": "to cause a short circuit in",
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      "sense": "to cause a short circuit in",
      "word": "短絡する"
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      "sense": "to cause a short circuit in",
      "word": "kortslutte"
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      "sense": "to cause a short circuit in",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "to cause a short circuit in",
      "word": "curto-circuitar"
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to cause a short circuit in",
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      "sense": "to cause a short circuit in",
      "word": "kortsluta"
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      "roman": "duǎnlù",
      "sense": "to undergo a short circuit",
      "word": "短路"
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}

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