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"ref": "2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28",
"text": "Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.",
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"sense": "violent flow, as of water etc.",
"word": "সয়লাব"
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"sense": "violent flow, as of water etc.",
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"sense": "violent flow, as of water etc.",
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"tags": [
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"text": "On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower."
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"ref": "2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian",
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],
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"text": "I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.",
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"A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent."
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"ipa": "/ˈtɒɹ.ənt/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɔɹ.ənt/",
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"General-American"
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{
"ipa": "/ˈtɑɹ.ənt/",
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"New-York-City"
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},
{
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},
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},
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},
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"US"
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{
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "toren",
"sense": "file transfers",
"word": "টৰেন"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "torent",
"sense": "file transfers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "торент"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "file transfers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "torent"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "file transfers",
"word": "torento"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṭorenṭi",
"sense": "file transfers",
"word": "ტორენტი"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "tórent",
"sense": "file transfers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "то́рент"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "ṭŏreṇṭa",
"sense": "file transfers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "टॉरेंट"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tórrent",
"sense": "file transfers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "то́ррент"
}
],
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}
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"Rhymes:English/ɒɹənt",
"Rhymes:English/ɒɹənt/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ɔɹənt",
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"word": "torrenter"
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"name": "m"
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{
"form": "torrents",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "torrenting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "torrented",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
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"form": "torrented",
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"past"
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}
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"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
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{
"text": "The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Rick Dakan, Geek Mafia: Black Hat Blues, page 38",
"text": "They had two thousand CDs burned with Listnin loaded on them, including versions for every major phone OS, and they'd set up a dozen servers in seven different countries for people to torrent the file from.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To download in a torrent."
],
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[
"Internet",
"Internet"
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[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"download",
"download"
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],
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],
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"Internet",
"transitive"
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈtɒɹ.ənt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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"ipa": "/ˈtɔɹ.ənt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
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{
"ipa": "/ˈtɑɹ.ənt/",
"tags": [
"New-York-City"
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},
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"rhymes": "(General American) -ɔɹənt"
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"rhymes": "(NYC) -ɑɹənt"
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"US"
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