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"word": "rough slant"
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"word": "slant of wind"
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"sense": "slope or incline",
"word": "斜坡"
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"sense": "slope or incline",
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"feminine"
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"word": "Schräge"
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"sense": "slope or incline",
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"word": "schiefe Ebene"
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"sense": "slope or incline",
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"sense": "slope or incline",
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"sense": "slope or incline",
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"feminine"
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"word": "pendenza"
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"sense": "slope or incline",
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"roman": "gyeongsa",
"sense": "slope or incline",
"word": "경사"
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"sense": "slope or incline",
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"word": "inclinação"
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"roman": "uklón",
"sense": "slope or incline",
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"sense": "slope or incline",
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"sense": "sloped surface or line",
"word": "kalteva pinta"
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"ref": "1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240",
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[
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"lang": "Turkish",
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{
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"ref": "1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations",
"text": "The Laplander beholds the far-off Sun\nDart his slant beam on unobeying snows, […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Michael Z. Williamson, A Long Time Until Now",
"text": "By the eighth day, Alexander and Caswell had lashed together a hut with a slant roof […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Sloping; oblique; slanted."
],
"links": [
[
"Sloping",
"sloping"
],
[
"oblique",
"oblique"
],
[
"slanted",
"slanted"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈslɑːnt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈslænt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ænt"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːnt"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/En-us-slant.ogg/En-us-slant.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/En-us-slant.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-slant.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/En-au-slant.ogg/En-au-slant.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/En-au-slant.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"slant"
],
"word": "slant"
}
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