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"word": "helyettesítő karakter"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "special character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "algildistákn"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "wairudokādo",
"sense": "special character",
"word": "ワイルドカード"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "special character",
"word": "چمنویسه"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "special character",
"word": "نویسه جانشین"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "special character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wieloznacznik"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "special character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coringa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "special character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "curinga"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "special character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "joker"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "znak podstanóvki",
"sense": "special character",
"word": "знак подстано́вки"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "derived adjective may be used in phrases",
"roman": "šablón",
"sense": "special character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шабло́н"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "símvol-džóker",
"sense": "special character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "си́мвол-джо́кер"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "special character",
"word": "comodín"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "special character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "jokertecken"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wèizhīshù",
"sense": "uncontrolled or unpredictable element",
"word": "未知数"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "uncontrolled or unpredictable element",
"word": "kysymysmerkki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "uncontrolled or unpredictable element",
"word": "avoin kysymys"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "balantér",
"sense": "uncontrolled or unpredictable element",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μπαλαντέρ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "uncontrolled or unpredictable element",
"word": "چموش"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "uncontrolled or unpredictable element",
"word": "زیرسبیلی"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Wildcard character"
],
"word": "wildcard"
}
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"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"en:People",
"en:Regular expressions"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "wild",
"3": "card"
},
"expansion": "wild + card",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "wild + card",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wildcards",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wildcarding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wildcarded",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "wildcarded",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "wildcard (third-person singular simple present wildcards, present participle wildcarding, simple past and past participle wildcarded)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Computing"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002, Eric Van der Vlist, XML Schema, page 183",
"text": "The unfortunate consequence is that document elements cannot be wildcarded because a schema needs to provide a closed list of possible document elements.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To replace or supplement with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"wildcard",
"wildcard"
],
[
"match",
"match"
]
],
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"(computing) To replace or supplement with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
],
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wildcard.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wildcard.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wildcard.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wildcard.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wildcard.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
}
],
"word": "wildcard"
}
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