"waldo" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the Robert A. Heinlein story Waldo, published in Astounding in 1940, derived from the name of the eponymous protagonist, Waldo F. Jones, who invented remote manipulators to overcome his own myasthenia gravis.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "waldos",
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "waldoes",
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      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "American fiction",
          "orig": "en:American fiction",
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            "Fiction",
            "United States",
            "Artistic works",
            "North America",
            "Art",
            "America",
            "Culture",
            "Earth",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fantasy",
          "orig": "en:Fantasy",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fictional characters",
          "orig": "en:Fictional characters",
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            "Artistic works",
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            "Culture",
            "Society",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Robotics",
          "orig": "en:Robotics",
          "parents": [
            "Engineering",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Technology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        },
        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Science fiction",
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            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
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            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, Robert A. Heinlein, Waldo",
          "text": "Waldo flexed and extended his fingers gently; the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of telefactor"
      ],
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          "telefactor",
          "telefactor#English"
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "telefactor"
        },
        {
          "word": "master-slave manipulator"
        },
        {
          "word": "telemanipulator"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "robotarm"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Remote manipulator"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɔːl.dəʊ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "waldo"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From the Robert A. Heinlein story Waldo, published in Astounding in 1940, derived from the name of the eponymous protagonist, Waldo F. Jones, who invented remote manipulators to overcome his own myasthenia gravis.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "waldos",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waldoes",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms derived from fiction",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:American fiction",
        "en:Fantasy",
        "en:Fictional characters",
        "en:Robotics",
        "en:Science fiction"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, Robert A. Heinlein, Waldo",
          "text": "Waldo flexed and extended his fingers gently; the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of telefactor"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
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          "telefactor#English"
        ]
      ],
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        {
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            "synonym-of"
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          "word": "telefactor"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Remote manipulator"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɔːl.dəʊ/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "master-slave manipulator"
    },
    {
      "word": "telemanipulator"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "robotarm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "waldo"
}

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