See stringer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
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"masculine"
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{
"ref": "1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:",
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"support",
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[
"post",
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],
[
"hull",
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[
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]
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"word": "poikkipuu"
},
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lisse"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 40 5 3 4 6 4 4 3 16 2 9",
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"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"_dis1": "2 2 40 5 3 4 6 4 4 3 16 2 9",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"feminine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "traversa"
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{
"_dis1": "2 2 40 5 3 4 6 4 4 3 16 2 9",
"code": "it",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"_dis1": "2 2 40 5 3 4 6 4 4 3 16 2 9",
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[
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{
"glosses": [
"A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached."
],
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"piano",
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]
]
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{
"ref": "1991, Douglas Coupland, “Enter Hyperspace”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC:",
"text": "And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday.",
"type": "quote"
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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"(journalism) A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place."
],
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"journalism",
"media"
],
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "freelance correspondent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "freier Mitarbeiter"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 2 2 2 49 7 4 3 3 6 5 10",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "freelance correspondent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "freelance correspondent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "giornalista"
},
{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "freelance correspondent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "inviato"
},
{
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "freelance correspondent",
"word": "stringer"
},
{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "freelance correspondent",
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"All topics",
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],
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"sports",
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[
"string",
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]
],
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],
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"Sports",
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[
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]
],
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"(surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength."
],
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"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports",
"surfing"
],
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 2 2 1 9 12 46 5 5 6 2 6",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "wooden strip on a surfboard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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}
]
},
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{
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"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
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"All topics",
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"A hard-hit ball."
],
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]
],
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"(baseball, slang, 1800s) A hard-hit ball."
],
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"ref": "1970, Field & Stream, volume 75, number 7, page 76:",
"text": "\"Okay, that's a keeper,\" Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.",
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}
],
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],
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[
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],
[
"cord",
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],
[
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],
[
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],
[
"gills",
"gills"
]
],
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"(fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish."
],
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"lifestyle"
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},
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[
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[
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[
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[
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"ref": "1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
"text": "A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days",
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}
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"A libertine; a wencher."
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[
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],
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"(obsolete) A libertine; a wencher."
],
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"ref": "1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:",
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"A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached."
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"piano"
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"ref": "1991, Douglas Coupland, “Enter Hyperspace”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC:",
"text": "And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday.",
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}
],
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"media"
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"A hard-hit ball."
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"ref": "1970, Field & Stream, volume 75, number 7, page 76:",
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"(birdwatching) A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity."
],
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who threads, strings",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Saitenaufzieher"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who threads, strings",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Besaiter"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who threads, strings",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cordaio"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who strings someone along",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Führer"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"word": "poikkipuu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lisse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Pfette"
},
{
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"lang": "German",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
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"masculine"
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"word": "Längsbalken"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Tragbalken"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Streckbalken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Stützbalken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Strebe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Treppenwange"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "traversa"
},
{
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "montante"
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{
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "longherina"
},
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
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},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "horizontal timber or piece",
"word": "kauhuahua"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "freelance correspondent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "freier Mitarbeiter"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "corrispondente libero"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "freelance correspondent",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "giornalista"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "freelance correspondent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "freelance correspondent",
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "freelance correspondent",
"word": "correspondente frila"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "wooden strip on a surfboard",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Holm"
}
],
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}
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