See sprite in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "red sprite"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sprite halo"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "water sprite"
}
],
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "スプライト",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "supuraito"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: スプライト (supuraito)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: スプライト (supuraito)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "спрайт",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: спрайт (sprajt)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: спрайт (sprajt)"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*(s)peys-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "sprite"
},
"expansion": "Middle English sprite",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "esprit",
"t": "spirit"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "spiritus"
},
"expansion": "Latin spiritus",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "spirit",
"3": "spiritus",
"4": "spirytus",
"5": "spright",
"6": "esprit"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "computer graphics"
},
"expansion": "(computer graphics):",
"name": "sense"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "meteorology"
},
"expansion": "(meteorology):",
"name": "sense"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spiritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit.\n(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.\n(meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sprites",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sprite (plural sprites)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sprightly"
}
],
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{
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{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mythology",
"orig": "en:Mythology",
"parents": [
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "12 14 12 9 5 7 15 5 13 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Old English translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence:",
"text": "He who torments the chafer's sprite\nWeaves a bower in endless night.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:",
"A spirit; a soul; a shade."
],
"id": "en-sprite-en-noun-aj3kgCk6",
"links": [
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"supernatural",
"supernatural"
],
[
"spirit",
"spirit"
],
[
"soul",
"soul"
],
[
"shade",
"shade"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mythology) Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:",
"A spirit; a soul; a shade."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "duh",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дух"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"inanimate",
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"inanimate",
"masculine"
],
"word": "přízrak"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zjevení"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"word": "henki"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Geist"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Erscheinung"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Seele"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pnévma",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πνεύμα"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "daimonikó",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "δαιμονικό"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sprid"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dux",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дух"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"english": "soul",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dušá",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "душа́"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"english": "ghost",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prízrak",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "при́зрак"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 25 4 5 1 0 2 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"english": "apparition",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prividénije",
"sense": "a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "привиде́ние"
}
]
},
{
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{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
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"orig": "en:Mythology",
"parents": [
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "10 10 10 7 6 7 15 9 15 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 12 8 8 11 7 14 6 15 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 14 12 9 5 7 15 5 13 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Old English translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 33 22 7 3 3 6 3 8 5",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mythological creatures",
"orig": "en:Mythological creatures",
"parents": [
"Fantasy",
"Mythology",
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Culture",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
"Society",
"Art",
"Entertainment",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
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"Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:",
"An apparition; a ghost."
],
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[
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"mythology"
],
[
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"supernatural"
],
[
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"apparition"
],
[
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],
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"(mythology) Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:",
"An apparition; a ghost."
],
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"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
},
{
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{
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"parents": [],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:",
"An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body."
],
"id": "en-sprite-en-noun-W5-wp8n8",
"links": [
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"supernatural",
"supernatural"
],
[
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"elf"
],
[
"fairy",
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],
[
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]
],
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"(mythology) Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:",
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],
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"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "feja",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фея"
},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "elf",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "елф"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "follet"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "skřítek"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"word": "keiju"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"word": "haltija"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kobold"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Elf"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Elfe"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Elfin"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"word": "rangipokohu"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ielf"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "elʹf",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "féja",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фе́я"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "góblin",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "го́блин"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"english": "Slavic mythology",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "domovój",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "домово́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"english": "Slavic mythology",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "léšij",
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"word": "ле́ший"
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{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спрайт"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "luspardan"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 11 76 4 2 0 3 0 1",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "an elf; a fairy; a goblin",
"word": "kizimwi"
}
]
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{
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Computer graphics",
"orig": "en:Computer graphics",
"parents": [
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"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
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{
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"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
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[
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[
"two-dimensional",
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[
"image",
"image"
],
[
"animation",
"animation"
]
],
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"(computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene."
],
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"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
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{
"_dis1": "4 4 2 80 2 1 3 1 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene",
"word": "精靈圖"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 4 2 80 2 1 3 1 3",
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"sense": "a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene",
"word": "精灵图"
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"_dis1": "4 4 2 80 2 1 3 1 3",
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"word": "精靈"
},
{
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"word": "精灵"
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{
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene",
"word": "拼合圖"
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{
"_dis1": "4 4 2 80 2 1 3 1 3",
"code": "cmn",
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{
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"word": "雪碧圖"
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{
"_dis1": "4 4 2 80 2 1 3 1 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"word": "雪碧图"
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{
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"word": "sprite"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 4 2 80 2 1 3 1 3",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sprite"
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{
"_dis1": "4 4 2 80 2 1 3 1 3",
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"sense": "a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene",
"word": "スプライト"
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"masculine"
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]
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"Nature",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
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{
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{
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"Weather",
"Electromagnetism",
"Atmosphere",
"Physics",
"Nature",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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],
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"A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash."
],
"id": "en-sprite-en-noun-6squt-VU",
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[
"meteorology",
"meteorology"
],
[
"electrical",
"electrical"
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[
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"discharge"
],
[
"cumulonimbus",
"cumulonimbus"
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[
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[
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"(meteorology) A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash."
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{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "electrical discharges that occur high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm",
"word": "紅色精靈"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 4 70 2 6 2 5",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hóngsè jīnglíng",
"sense": "electrical discharges that occur high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm",
"word": "红色精灵"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 4 70 2 6 2 5",
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