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"derived": [
{
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"word": "artificial turf"
},
{
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"word": "AstroTurf"
},
{
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"word": "come with the turf"
},
{
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"word": "go with the turf"
},
{
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"word": "home turf"
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"word": "on the turf"
},
{
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"word": "Smurf turf"
},
{
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"word": "surf and turf"
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{
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"word": "turf accountant"
},
{
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"word": "turf advisor"
},
{
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"word": "turf ant"
},
{
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"word": "turf bank"
},
{
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"word": "turfen"
},
{
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"word": "turf-roof"
},
{
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"word": "turf-roofed"
},
{
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"word": "turf ski"
},
{
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"word": "turf spade"
},
{
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"word": "turf toe"
},
{
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"word": "turf war"
},
{
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"word": "turfy"
}
],
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*derbʰ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "turf"
},
"expansion": "Middle English turf",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "enm",
"2": "torf"
},
"expansion": "torf",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "ang",
"3": "turf",
"4": "",
"5": "turf, sod, soil, piece of grass covered earth, greensward"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*turb"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *turb",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*turbz",
"4": "",
"5": "turf, lawn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*derbʰ-",
"4": "",
"5": "tuft, grass"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“tuft, grass”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "turf",
"3": "",
"4": "turf"
},
"expansion": "Dutch turf (“turf”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "torf",
"3": "",
"4": "peat, turf"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German torf (“peat, turf”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Torf"
},
"expansion": "German Torf",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "Torf"
},
"expansion": "German Low German Torf",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "torv",
"3": "",
"4": "turf"
},
"expansion": "Swedish torv (“turf”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "torv",
"3": "",
"4": "turf"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian torv (“turf”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "torf",
"3": "",
"4": "turf"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic torf (“turf”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "трава",
"3": "",
"4": "grass"
},
"expansion": "Russian трава (trava, “grass”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "दर्भ",
"3": "",
"4": "a kind of grass",
"tr": "darbhá"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit दर्भ (darbhá, “a kind of grass”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "दूर्वा",
"3": "",
"4": "bent grass",
"tr": "dū́rvā"
},
"expansion": "दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “bent grass”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (“turf, sod, soil, piece of grass covered earth, greensward”), from Proto-West Germanic *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“tuft, grass”).\nCognate with Dutch turf (“turf”), Middle Low German torf (“peat, turf”) (whence German Torf and German Low German Torf), Swedish torv (“turf”), Norwegian torv (“turf”), Icelandic torf (“turf”), Russian трава (trava, “grass”), Sanskrit दर्भ (darbhá, “a kind of grass”), दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “bent grass”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "turfs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "turves",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "~",
"2": "s",
"3": "turves"
},
"expansion": "turf (countable and uncountable, plural turfs or turves)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)",
"text": "It was a sixth successive defeat for Klopp in a major final and at the final whistle, with Karius burying his face into the turf, there was not exactly a stampede of team-mates wanting to console him.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A layer of earth covered with grass; sod."
],
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"links": [
[
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"layer"
],
[
"earth",
"earth"
],
[
"grass",
"grass"
],
[
"sod",
"sod"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "čim",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "ճիմ"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "čim",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "чим"
},
{
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "gespa"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drn"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trávník"
},
{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pažit"
},
{
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "grasveld"
},
{
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gazon"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "torfo"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "turfo"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "nurmi"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gazon"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Rasen"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chlói",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "χλόη"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "grasídi",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "γρασίδι"
},
{
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "bôlos",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "βῶλος"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "torf"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "erba"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "zolla erbosa"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caespes"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "velēna"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "gressmatte"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pelena"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tepa"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "çim",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "چیم"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sood"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gramado"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "djorn",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дёрн"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "césped"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "terreno"
},
{
"_dis1": "88 6 0 0 3 1 1 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "territorio"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill",
"text": "\"It's an old custom the people had when they bought and sold land. They used to cut out a clod and hand it over to the buyer, and you weren't lawfully seised of your land - it didn't really belong to you - till the other fellow had actually given you a piece of it - like this.\" He held out the turves.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King",
"text": "Frodo and Sam went forward and saw that amidst the clamorous host were set three high-seats built of green turves.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc."
],
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"links": [
[
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],
[
"lawn",
"lawn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
],
"translations": [
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"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "čim",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"word": "ճիմ"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "čim",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "чим"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drn"
},
{
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "graszode"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"word": "nurmi"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"word": "nurmikerros"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"word": "nurmimatto"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "une motte f de gazon"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grassode"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chlootápitas",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "χλοοτάπητας"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "torfa"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zolla d'erba"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caespes"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "velēna"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ferdigplen"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "çim",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"word": "چیم"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "torrão"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "djorn",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дёрн"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fòid"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tepe"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gallón"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 68 10 0 5 3 3 2 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "torva"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1908, Karl Gayer and W. R. Fisher, edited by Sir William Schlich, Forest Utilization (Schlich's Manual of Forestry)",
"text": "In ordinary peat-bogs, however, where turves are cut, there is always a large percentage of waste peat resulting from the digging, drying or transport of the turves, which can be utilized only by moulding it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1945 January and February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Firing with Turf”, in Railway Magazine, page 46",
"text": "[…] the fireman has to divide his time between getting up into the bunker to throw more turfs into the cab, and getting down on his hands and knees to get it into the firebox, and even then a reserve supply of turf must be carried on a truck behind the engine, and stops must be made on each steep ascent to raise more steam.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A block of peat used as fuel."
],
"id": "en-turf-en-noun--kZq7-iU",
"links": [
[
"block",
"block"
],
[
"peat",
"peat"
],
[
"fuel",
"fuel"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) A block of peat used as fuel."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 27 56 0 2 1 5 5 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "torf",
"sense": "a piece of peat used as fuel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "торф"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 27 56 0 2 1 5 5 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a piece of peat used as fuel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rašelina"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 27 56 0 2 1 5 5 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a piece of peat used as fuel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "turf"
},
{
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"ref": "1996, Jeffrey E. Nash, James M. Calonico, The Meaning of Social Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology, page 139",
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"ref": "1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King",
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"ref": "2023 November 21, Sarah Law, “Thunder Bay's long-awaited indoor turf facility delayed again as council seeks to cut costs”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-12-15",
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"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
"word": "ճիմ"
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"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
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"sense": "a layer of earth covered with grass; sod",
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"code": "oc",
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"code": "ota",
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"word": "چیم"
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"masculine"
],
"word": "gramado"
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"code": "ru",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "hy",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "nl",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"word": "une motte f de gazon"
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"code": "de",
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"code": "el",
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
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"feminine"
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"word": "zolla d'erba"
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"code": "la",
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"masculine"
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
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"feminine"
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"code": "no",
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"code": "ota",
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"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
"word": "چیم"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "a piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn",
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"code": "gd",
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"code": "es",
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"masculine"
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"code": "es",
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"masculine"
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"word": "gallón"
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "izh",
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"code": "it",
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"feminine"
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"code": "no",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "(slang) the territory claimed by a person, gang, etc. as their own",
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"neuter"
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"code": "vi",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "es",
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"text": "Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies."
}
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"text": "The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly."
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"ref": "1968, Eric Herne, The Haunted Islands, page 18",
"text": "He has the mistaken idea that he is a lap dog, and loves to be nursed, especially by ladies, but eighty-five pounds on your lap is no joke, and he can never understand why he gets turfed off.",
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{
"ref": "1988, Simon Haw with Richard Frame, For Hearth and Home: The Story of Maritzburg College, 1863-1988, page 166",
"text": "At the same time as College was being unceremoniously turfed from their premises, a similar process was affecting the Estcourt School.",
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"(informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out."
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1996, Jeffrey E. Nash, James M. Calonico, The Meaning of Social Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology, page 139",
"text": "\"Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!\" […] They want to transfer responsibility for her to another branch of the hospital (turf her).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for."
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}
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]
},
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"ipa": "/tɜːf/",
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]
},
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},
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},
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to create a lawn by laying turfs",
"word": "levittää nurmimatto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to create a lawn by laying turfs",
"word": "gazonner"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to create a lawn by laying turfs",
"word": "piotare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to create a lawn by laying turfs",
"word": "zollare"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to create a lawn by laying turfs",
"word": "relvar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to create a lawn by laying turfs",
"word": "encespedar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(business) to fire from a job",
"word": "antaa potkut"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(business) to cancel a project",
"word": "hyllyttää"
}
],
"word": "turf"
}
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