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{
"form": "tea balls",
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"pos": "noun",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Coordinate term: tea strainer"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Campbell Dawn, The Tea Book, Pelican Publishing, page 84",
"text": "When using a tea ball, fill it to one-half full with tea leaves, leaving enough room in it for the leaves to expand.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A perforated spherical metal container that holds tea leaves for steeping or brewing in hot water."
],
"id": "en-tea_ball-en-noun-bba3tUD9",
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "infuser"
},
{
"word": "tea egg"
},
{
"word": "teaball"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "spherical metal container",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boule à thé"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spherical metal container",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Tee-Ei"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "spherical metal container",
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "tepumla"
}
]
}
],
"word": "tea ball"
}
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Coordinate term: tea strainer"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Campbell Dawn, The Tea Book, Pelican Publishing, page 84",
"text": "When using a tea ball, fill it to one-half full with tea leaves, leaving enough room in it for the leaves to expand.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"A perforated spherical metal container that holds tea leaves for steeping or brewing in hot water."
],
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"tea",
"tea"
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],
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{
"word": "infuser"
},
{
"word": "tea egg"
}
]
}
],
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{
"word": "teaball"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "spherical metal container",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boule à thé"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spherical metal container",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Tee-Ei"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "spherical metal container",
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "tepumla"
}
],
"word": "tea ball"
}
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