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"ref": "2021 September 22, “Network News: Sinking feeling on unlucky 13th”, in RAIL, number 940, page 18",
"text": "A sinkhole suddenly opened up beneath the track of a heavy freight route in the eastern United States. Golfers playing the 13th hole at Hartford, Connecticut, had a new obstacle to tackle: a section of track suspended in mid-air after heavy rainfall in the aftermath of Storm Ida.",
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"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "بَالُوعَة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ballāʕa",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "بَلَّاعَة"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desguàs"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eixidiu"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desaigüe"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"word": "vajoama"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"word": "kuoppa"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "broque"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fochanca"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "loio"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "groba"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fanigoto"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Senkloch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Sinkloch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ablauf"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Abfluss"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"word": "whāwhārua"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vygrebnája jáma",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "выгребна́я я́ма"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desagüe"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "depressed area in which water collects",
"word": "düden"
}
],
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"sinkhole"
],
"word": "sinkhole"
}
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"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"en:Bodies of water",
"en:Pinball"
],
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"2": "enm",
"3": "sinkehole"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "sinkeholl"
},
"expansion": "sinkeholl",
"name": "m"
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"1": "en",
"2": "sink",
"3": "hole"
},
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"name": "com"
}
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"forms": [
{
"form": "sinkholes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "sinkholing",
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"participle",
"present"
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{
"form": "sinkholed",
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"participle",
"past"
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"form": "sinkholed",
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"past"
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}
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"pos": "verb",
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"en:Internet"
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"glosses": [
"To configure as a sinkhole (domain name server that gives non-routeable addresses)."
],
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"Internet",
"Internet"
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"(Internet, transitive) To configure as a sinkhole (domain name server that gives non-routeable addresses)."
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sinkhole.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sinkhole.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sinkhole.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sinkhole.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sinkhole.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
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{
"word": "sink hole"
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{
"word": "sink-hole"
}
],
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"sinkhole"
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}
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