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"Recreation", "Human activity", "Human behaviour", "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "Turning turtle." ], "id": "en-turtling-en-noun-ZUolMAnG", "links": [ [ "nautical", "nautical" ], [ "Turning turtle", "turn turtle" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(nautical) Turning turtle." ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ], "topics": [ "nautical", "transport" ] }, { "glosses": [ "Any slow progression or build-up." ], "id": "en-turtling-en-noun-m8k-NCk9", "links": [ [ "progression", "progression" ], [ "build-up", "build-up" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(figuratively) Any slow progression or build-up." ], "tags": [ "figuratively", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "7 32 7 32 4 17", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Gaming", "orig": "en:Gaming", "parents": [ "Games", "Recreation", "Human activity", "Human behaviour", "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "(games (board, card, and computer)) A defensive strategy of avoiding conflict, by maintaining strong defense and little to no offense, whilst staying in a fixed position.", "A defensive strategy of avoiding conflict, by maintaining strong defense and little to no offense, whilst staying in a fixed position." ], "id": "en-turtling-en-noun-6GyaWjcH", "links": [ [ "defensive", "defensive" ], [ "strategy", "strategy" ], [ "fixed", "fixed" ] ], "qualifier": "games (board, card, and computer)", "raw_glosses": [ "(games (board, card, and computer)) A defensive strategy of avoiding conflict, by maintaining strong defense and little to no offense, whilst staying in a fixed position." ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] } ], "wikipedia": [ "turtling" ], "word": "turtling" } { "etymology_number": 1, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "turtle", "3": "ing" }, "expansion": "turtle + -ing", "name": "suffix" } ], "etymology_text": "turtle + -ing", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "verb form" }, "expansion": "turtling", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "7 32 7 32 4 17", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Gaming", "orig": "en:Gaming", "parents": [ "Games", "Recreation", "Human activity", "Human behaviour", "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "form_of": [ { "word": "turtle" } ], "glosses": [ "present participle and gerund of turtle" ], "id": "en-turtling-en-verb-2U7ViDts", "links": [ [ "turtle", "turtle#English" ] ], "tags": [ "form-of", "gerund", "participle", "present" ] } ], "wikipedia": [ "turtling" ], "word": "turtling" } { "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "turtle", "3": "ling" }, "expansion": "turtle + -ling", "name": "suffix" } ], "etymology_text": "From turtle + -ling.", "forms": [ { "form": "turtlings", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "turtling (plural turtlings)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1912, William Vaughn Moody, The poems and plays of William Vaughn Moody", "text": "Drowsy with dawn, barely asail, Buzzes the blue-bottle over the shale, Scared from the pool by the leaping trout; And the brood of turtlings clamber out On the log by their oozy house.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1997, Sportdiving, volumes 59-64, page 94", "text": "The turtle-lings, kept in safety until they are three months old, are then released into the wild.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "2012, Alexandra de Vries, Shawn Blore, Frommer's Brazil", "text": "Fifty days later, more or less, the little turtlings hatch, dig their way up through the sand, and make a mad scramble to the sea.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A baby turtle." ], "id": "en-turtling-en-noun-sxTMlibq", "links": [ [ "turtle", "turtle" ] ] } ], "wikipedia": [ "turtling" ], "word": "turtling" }
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