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{
"form": "strikes up",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
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]
},
{
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]
},
{
"form": "struck up",
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"past"
]
},
{
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]
},
{
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},
"expansion": "strike up (third-person singular simple present strikes up, present participle striking up, simple past struck up, past participle struck up or (somewhat archaic) stricken up)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
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"text": "To make him feel welcome, she struck up a conversation with the newly arrived guest.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He struck up a friendship with Redford that was to last for many years.",
"type": "example"
}
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"To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship."
],
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],
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],
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],
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship."
],
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{
"_dis1": "58 41 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "stifte [venskab]"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 41 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "entamer"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 41 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "schließen [Freundschaft]"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 41 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "incominciare"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 41 1",
"code": "it",
"english": "(usually about live music)",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "far partire"
},
{
"_dis1": "58 41 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "entablar"
}
]
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{
"text": "The band struck up and everyone started to dance.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The bride entered the church just as the \"Wedding March\" struck up.",
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}
],
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"To start something, usually playing live music."
],
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"(intransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To start something, usually playing live music."
],
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"idiomatic",
"intransitive"
]
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"glosses": [
"To raise (as sheet metal), in making dishes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die."
],
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"tags": [
"Australia"
],
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}
],
"word": "strike up"
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{
"form": "strikes up",
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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{
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"participle",
"present"
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{
"form": "struck up",
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"past"
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},
{
"form": "struck up",
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"past"
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},
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}
],
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{
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"English transitive verbs"
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"text": "To make him feel welcome, she struck up a conversation with the newly arrived guest.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He struck up a friendship with Redford that was to last for many years.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship."
],
"links": [
[
"start",
"start"
],
[
"conversation",
"conversation"
],
[
"relationship",
"relationship"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, idiomatic) To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English ergative verbs",
"English idioms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
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{
"text": "The band struck up and everyone started to dance.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The bride entered the church just as the \"Wedding March\" struck up.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To start something, usually playing live music."
],
"links": [
[
"start",
"start"
]
],
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"(intransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To start something, usually playing live music."
],
"tags": [
"ergative",
"idiomatic",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To raise (as sheet metal), in making dishes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die."
],
"links": [
[
"die",
"die"
]
]
}
],
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-au-strike_up.ogg/En-au-strike_up.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-au-strike_up.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
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],
"translations": [
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "stifte [venskab]"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "entamer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "schließen [Freundschaft]"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "incominciare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"english": "(usually about live music)",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "far partire"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to start something, e.g. a relationship",
"word": "entablar"
}
],
"word": "strike up"
}
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