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{
"etymology_text": "From tune + out.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "tunes out",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "tuning out",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "tuned out",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "tuned out",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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},
"expansion": "tune out (third-person singular simple present tunes out, present participle tuning out, simple past and past participle tuned out)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "85 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "76 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I have a hard time tuning out a television that is on.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, page 123",
"text": "Ants are everywhere, in such abundance that we tune them out like we tune out traffic noise.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out."
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"_dis1": "79 21",
"word": "tune"
}
],
"id": "en-tune_out-en-verb-qKBdN7Mz",
"links": [
[
"paying attention",
"pay attention"
],
[
"ignore",
"ignore"
],
[
"zone out",
"zone out"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out."
],
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "90 10",
"word": "tune in"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"sense": "ignore",
"word": "space out"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 21",
"word": "zone out"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 21",
"word": "ignore"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I was tired of talk radio so I tuned out of that station and tuned into one playing all music.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To change the channel or frequency away from."
],
"id": "en-tune_out-en-verb-hBd2QoOZ",
"links": [
[
"channel",
"channel"
],
[
"frequency",
"frequency"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàntái",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "换台"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "调台"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "换频道"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "vaihtaa kanavaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 93",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "trocar estação"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"audio": "En-au-tune out.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8f/En-au-tune_out.ogg/En-au-tune_out.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/En-au-tune_out.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "tune out"
}
{
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs"
],
"etymology_text": "From tune + out.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "tunes out",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "tuning out",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "tuned out",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "tuned out",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"expansion": "tune out (third-person singular simple present tunes out, present participle tuning out, simple past and past participle tuned out)",
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}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"word": "tune"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "tune in"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I have a hard time tuning out a television that is on.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, page 123",
"text": "Ants are everywhere, in such abundance that we tune them out like we tune out traffic noise.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out."
],
"links": [
[
"paying attention",
"pay attention"
],
[
"ignore",
"ignore"
],
[
"zone out",
"zone out"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I was tired of talk radio so I tuned out of that station and tuned into one playing all music.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To change the channel or frequency away from."
],
"links": [
[
"channel",
"channel"
],
[
"frequency",
"frequency"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-tune out.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8f/En-au-tune_out.ogg/En-au-tune_out.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/En-au-tune_out.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "ignore",
"word": "space out"
},
{
"word": "zone out"
},
{
"word": "ignore"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"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",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "vaihtaa kanavaa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "change the channel",
"word": "trocar estação"
}
],
"word": "tune out"
}
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