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{
"etymology_text": "From tune + out.",
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"text": "I have a hard time tuning out a television that is on.",
"type": "example"
},
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"ref": "2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 123:",
"text": "Ants are everywhere, in such abundance that we tune them out like we tune out traffic noise.",
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"To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out."
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"word": "tune"
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"(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out."
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"text": "I was tired of talk radio so I tuned out of that station and tuned into one playing all music.",
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"To change the channel or frequency away from."
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"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàntái",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "换台"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "调台"
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"word": "换频道"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "vaihtaa kanavaa"
},
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"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "trocar estação"
}
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"etymology_text": "From tune + out.",
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"text": "I have a hard time tuning out a television that is on.",
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"ref": "2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 123:",
"text": "Ants are everywhere, in such abundance that we tune them out like we tune out traffic noise.",
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"To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out."
],
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"(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out."
],
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"text": "I was tired of talk radio so I tuned out of that station and tuned into one playing all music.",
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"To change the channel or frequency away from."
],
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"frequency",
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"synonyms": [
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"sense": "ignore",
"word": "space out"
},
{
"word": "zone out"
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"word": "ignore"
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"translations": [
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàntái",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "换台"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "调台"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "换频道"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "vaihtaa kanavaa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "trocar estação"
}
],
"word": "tune out"
}
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