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"etymology_text": "From Middle French talc, from Arabic طَلْق (ṭalq), from Persian تلک (talk), from Middle Persian [Term?] (“medicament”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "talcs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "talcing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "talced",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "talced",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "talc (third-person singular simple present talcs, present participle talcing, simple past and past participle talced)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "soapstone"
},
{
"word": "steatite"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1940, Rubber Journal, volume 99, page 479:",
"text": "\"Generous talcing\" is applied not only to the naked bale, but to the inside of the wrapper, and after stenciling, to the interior of the package. This talcing is repeated, \"if necessary, dependent upon the number of handlings up to and into stores for steamer loading.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1977, Great Britain Health, Safety Executive, Manufacturing & Service Industries, page 43:",
"text": "Three manufacturers have now produced separate designs for talcing boxes; one uses conventional techniques of brushing and vibrators, one is a fluidised bed and the third is an electrostatic applicator.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1983, Aaron Elkins, The Dark Place, published 2010, page 107:",
"text": "Then he talced his hands, slipped on a new pair of rubber gloves, went to the shapeless thing at the other end of the table, and began to work.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To apply talc to."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To apply talc to."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/tælk/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ælk"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "To apply talc",
"word": "talki"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To apply talc",
"word": "talquer"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "To apply talc",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "talkować"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"talc"
],
"word": "talc"
}
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