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"roman": "shirikōn",
"sense": "any of a class of inert compounds of silicon",
"word": "シリコーン"
},
{
"code": "ko",
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"roman": "sillikon",
"sense": "any of a class of inert compounds of silicon",
"word": "실리콘"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "any of a class of inert compounds of silicon",
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"sense": "any of a class of inert compounds of silicon",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "any of a class of inert compounds of silicon",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "any of a class of inert compounds of silicon",
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "any of a class of inert compounds of silicon",
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],
"word": "silikon"
},
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "any of a class of inert compounds of silicon",
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],
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"text": "silicone the bathtub to the tile",
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{
"ref": "1984, United States National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 963",
"text": "Structural glazing or siliconing of window units is, according to Donald F. Kelly, Jr., president of AMPAT, the bonding of glass to a metal frame.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"ref": "2011, Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, page 27",
"text": "The next girl, with huge, perfectly spherical, siliconed breasts perched high on her slender chest, got the loudest roar. ‘Oh, there are two things I like about her!’ shouted the DJ. ‘How about you, boys?’",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c 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.
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