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{
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{
"english": "regular and even",
"sense": "antonym(s) of",
"word": "unsteady"
},
{
"word": "unsteady"
}
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "go steady"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "land of steady habits"
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{
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"word": "non-quasi-steady"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "steady as she goes"
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"word": "steady Eddie"
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{
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"word": "steady hand at the tiller"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "steady-handed"
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"word": "steady on"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "steady pom pi pi"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "steady state"
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{
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"word": "steady-state"
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{
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"word": "steady stater"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "steady state theory"
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},
{
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"2": "dum",
"3": "stēdig",
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{
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"t": "constant, continual"
},
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},
{
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"2": "stadich",
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{
"args": {
"1": "da",
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},
"expansion": "Danish stedig",
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},
{
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},
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{
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},
"expansion": "Icelandic stöðugur",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
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"name": "cog"
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{
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"t": "steady, confident",
"tr": "chāi"
},
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"name": "sl"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English stedy, studi, stidiȝ, perhaps continuing Old English stæþþiġ, ġestæþþiġ (“steadfast, stable, firm, staid”), equivalent to stead + -y; or calquing Middle Low German or Middle Dutch stēdig. Cognate with Saterland Frisian stoadig (“constant, continual”), West Frisian stadich (“slow”), Danish stedig, stadig, steeg, Swedish stadig, Icelandic stöðugur, German stätig, stetig.\nSense 8 of the adjective is a semantic loan from Hokkien 在 (chāi, “steady, confident”).",
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{
"form": "steadier",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "steadiest",
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]
}
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},
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"word": "Change:"
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{
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{
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"word": "immutable"
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"word": "Other:"
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{
"text": "Hold the ladder steady while I go up.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The New Arcadia",
"ref": "a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:",
"text": "Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their eyes watchful, and their hearts resolute.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:",
"text": "But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window,[…].",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1890 January 4, Pall Mall Gazette, London: J. K. Sharpe, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:",
"text": "When I went to Harrow, thirty years ago, I found a winter evening game in force there, called 'high cockalorum,' […] The players used to divide into two opposing bands of from twelve to fourteen each – in fact, the more the merrier. One side 'went down,' so as to constitute a long 'hogsback' – the last boy having a couple of pillows between himself and the wall, and each boy clasping his front rank man, and carefully tucking his own 'cocoa-nut' [i.e., head] under his right arm, so as to prevent fracture of the vertebrae. When the hogsback was thus formed, the other side came on, leapfrogging on to the backs of those who were down, the best and the steadiest jumpers being sent first. […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Stephen D. Lewis, Seeing Sound: Hans Jenny and the Cymatic Atlas, page 17:",
"text": "Jenny also used a much more advanced form of wave generation: instead of using a bow string, he was able to create cymatoscopes using piezoelectric generators that could be regulated electronically and could produce steadier wave displacements than any of Jenny’s predecessors.",
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"_dis1": "62 9 6 4 5 0 7 8",
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"word": "robust"
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{
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"sense": "firm",
"word": "solid"
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"sense": "firm",
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "ṯābit",
"sense": "firm",
"word": "ثابت"
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"word": "стабилен"
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"word": "устойчив"
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"word": "ferm"
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{
"_dis1": "62 9 6 4 5 0 7 8",
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"roman": "bébaios",
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"word": "βέβαιος"
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"code": "hi",
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"sense": "firm",
"word": "दृढ़"
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{
"_dis1": "62 9 6 4 5 0 7 8",
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"sense": "firm",
"word": "fermo"
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{
"_dis1": "62 9 6 4 5 0 7 8",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "firm",
"word": "saldo"
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{
"_dis1": "62 9 6 4 5 0 7 8",
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"word": "fidato"
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{
"_dis1": "62 9 6 4 5 0 7 8",
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"word": "sicuro"
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{
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"sense": "firm",
"word": "whena"
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"word": "estável"
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"word": "धीर"
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"word": "มั่นคง"
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"text": "a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object",
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"_dis1": "9 80 1 3 0 0 5 2",
"code": "az",
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"sense": "constant in purpose or action",
"word": "müntəzəm"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "postojanen",
"sense": "constant in purpose or action",
"word": "постоянен"
},
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"_dis1": "9 80 1 3 0 0 5 2",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "neotklonen",
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"word": "неотклонен"
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{
"_dis1": "9 80 1 3 0 0 5 2",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "constant in purpose or action",
"word": "costante"
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{
"_dis1": "9 80 1 3 0 0 5 2",
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"word": "regolare"
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"sense": "constant in purpose or action",
"word": "mārō"
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"word": "pāmārō"
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"word": "rōnaki"
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"word": "fèrm"
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"word": "bestendich"
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"word": "firme"
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"text": "a steady ride",
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"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"code": "bg",
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"word": "равен"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ravnomeren",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "равномерен"
},
{
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"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "在"
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{
"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wěndìng",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "穩定 /稳定"
},
{
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
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"word": "plynulý"
},
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"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"tags": [
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"word": "klidný"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "vakaa"
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{
"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "lisse"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "stetig"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "uniforme"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "regolare"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"alt": "ちゃくじつ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chakujitsu",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "着実"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"alt": "あんていした",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "antei shita",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "安定した"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "māhoi"
},
{
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"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "stendich"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ustójčivyj",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "усто́йчивый"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 7 72 6 1 0 4 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "smooth and not bumpy or with obstructions",
"word": "liso"
}
]
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"ref": "1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:",
"text": "Thy ſteddy Temper, Portius,\nCan look on Guilt, Rebellion, Fraud, and Cæſar,\nIn the calm Lights of mild Philoſophy;\nI’m tortured, ev’n to Madneſs, when I think\nOn the proud Victor: […]",
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[
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"ref": "1979 August 25, Pat M. Kuras, “Post Card Sex”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 12:",
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"ref": "2010, Neil Humphreys, chapter 10, in Match Fixer, Marshall Cavendish International, →ISBN, page 112:",
"text": "You get it right too many times. Your viewers must think you're damn solid, right? Get so many right on TV, steady lah, ang moh, they say, right? Fame gone to your head, is it?",
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"Terms with Uyghur translations",
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],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "stedy"
},
"expansion": "Middle English stedy",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "stæþþiġ"
},
"expansion": "Old English stæþþiġ",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "stead",
"3": "y",
"id2": "adjectival"
},
"expansion": "stead + -y",
"name": "suf"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "calque",
"2": "calquing"
},
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"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gml",
"3": "-",
"notext": "1"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German",
"name": "calque"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "stēdig",
"notext": "1"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch stēdig",
"name": "calque"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "stoadig",
"t": "constant, continual"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian stoadig (“constant, continual”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "stadich",
"t": "slow"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian stadich (“slow”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "stedig"
},
"expansion": "Danish stedig",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "stadig"
},
"expansion": "Swedish stadig",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "stöðugur"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic stöðugur",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "stätig"
},
"expansion": "German stätig",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "nan-hbl",
"3": "在",
"nocap": "1",
"t": "steady, confident",
"tr": "chāi"
},
"expansion": "semantic loan from Hokkien 在 (chāi, “steady, confident”)",
"name": "sl"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English stedy, studi, stidiȝ, perhaps continuing Old English stæþþiġ, ġestæþþiġ (“steadfast, stable, firm, staid”), equivalent to stead + -y; or calquing Middle Low German or Middle Dutch stēdig. Cognate with Saterland Frisian stoadig (“constant, continual”), West Frisian stadich (“slow”), Danish stedig, stadig, steeg, Swedish stadig, Icelandic stöðugur, German stätig, stetig.\nSense 8 of the adjective is a semantic loan from Hokkien 在 (chāi, “steady, confident”).",
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{
"args": {},
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"name": "en-interjection"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
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{
"categories": [
"Singlish"
],
"glosses": [
"Alright!, way to go!, nice!"
],
"links": [
[
"Alright",
"alright#English"
],
[
"way to go",
"way to go"
],
[
"nice",
"nice"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Singlish) Alright!, way to go!, nice!"
],
"tags": [
"Singlish"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "stĕdʹi"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈstɛdi/"
},
{
"enpr": "stĭdʹi",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"enpr": "stŭdʹi",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈstɪdi/",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈstʌdi/",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-steady.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/53/En-us-steady.ogg/En-us-steady.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/En-us-steady.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛdi"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "steddy"
},
{
"word": "stedy"
}
],
"word": "steady"
}
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