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"word": "bay yarn"
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"word": "galley yarn"
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{
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"word": "rogue's yarn"
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{
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"word": "rope yarn"
},
{
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"word": "Saxony yarn"
},
{
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"word": "sock yarn"
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{
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"word": "spin a yarn"
},
{
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"word": "yarn-beam"
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{
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"word": "yarn bombing"
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{
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"word": "yarnover"
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{
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"word": "yarn-spinner"
},
{
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"word": "yarnwindle"
}
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"3": "*ǵʰer-",
"id": "bowels"
},
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"name": "root"
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{
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"2": "enm",
"3": "yarne"
},
"expansion": "Middle English yarne",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ȝern"
},
"expansion": "ȝern",
"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "yarn"
},
"expansion": "yarn",
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{
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"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ġearn",
"4": "",
"5": "yarn, spun wool"
},
"expansion": "Old English ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”)",
"name": "inh"
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"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*garn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *garn",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*garną",
"4": "",
"5": "yarn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *garną (“yarn”)",
"name": "inh"
},
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ǵʰorn-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*ǵʰer-",
"3": "",
"4": "tharm, guts, intestines",
"id": "bowels"
},
"expansion": "*ǵʰer- (“tharm, guts, intestines”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "jern"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian jern",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "garen",
"3": "",
"4": "yarn"
},
"expansion": "Dutch garen (“yarn”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Garn",
"3": "",
"4": "yarn"
},
"expansion": "German Garn (“yarn”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "garn"
},
"expansion": "Danish garn",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "garn",
"3": "",
"4": "yarn, thread"
},
"expansion": "Swedish garn (“yarn, thread”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "garn",
"3": "",
"4": "yarn"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic garn (“yarn”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "hernia",
"3": "",
"4": "rupture"
},
"expansion": "Latin hernia (“rupture”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "χορδή",
"3": "",
"4": "string"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "हिर",
"3": "",
"4": "band"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit हिर (hira, “band”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "garn"
},
"expansion": "garn",
"name": "l"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English yarne, ȝern, yarn, from the Old English ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Proto-West Germanic *garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“tharm, guts, intestines”).\nCognates\nAkin to West Frisian jern, Dutch garen (“yarn”), German Garn (“yarn”), Danish garn, Swedish garn (“yarn, thread”), Icelandic garn (“yarn”), Latin hernia (“rupture”), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string”), Sanskrit हिर (hira, “band”). Compare also the obsolete doublet garn.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "yarns",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "yarn (countable and uncountable, plural yarns)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"word": "hank"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "twine"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "thread"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "44 26 24 6",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Fibers",
"orig": "en:Fibers",
"parents": [
"Materials",
"Manufacturing",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving."
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"_dis1": "71 19 10",
"sense": "en, fiber strand",
"word": "worsted"
}
],
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[
"twist",
"twist"
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[
"strand",
"strand"
],
[
"fiber",
"fiber"
],
[
"knit",
"knit"
],
[
"weaving",
"weaving"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fije"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ale",
"lang": "Aleut",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "chngax̂"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵayṭ",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خَيْط"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "dubara",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "دوبارة"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "xéṭ",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "خيط"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "arz",
"english": "wool",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bakara",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "بكرة"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "afb",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "xeṭ",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Gulf-Arabic"
],
"word": "خيط"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "manvackʿ",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "մանվածք"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "iplik"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ip"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "práža",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пра́жа"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "préžda",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пре́жда"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "hkyany",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ချည်"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fil"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ccp",
"lang": "Chakma",
"roman": "dhāgā",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "𑄙𑄉"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "laang¹",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "冷"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "膨紗"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "膨纱"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "毛線"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "mô͘-sòaⁿ",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "毛线"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "紗線"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shāxiàn",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "纱线"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "紗"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shā",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "纱"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "毛線"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "máoxiàn",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "毛线"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "příze"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "garn"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "garen"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "fadeno"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "lõng"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "kedrus"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "lanka"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "rihma"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fil"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cerro"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiado"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "narti",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ნართი"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ʒapi",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ძაფი"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Garn"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "níma",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "νήμα"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "arpedónē",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἀρπεδόνη"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "khut",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "חוּט"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "sūt",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "सूत"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "fonál"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "fonal"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "garn"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "lanka"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "abhras"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "snáth"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "filo"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "filato"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"alt": "いと",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ito",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "糸"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"alt": "けいと",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "keito",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "毛糸"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "jıp",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "жіп"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "ʼɑmbɑh",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "អំបោះ"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sil",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "실"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "teolsil",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "털실"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "jip",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "жип"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "sen dāi",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ເສັ້ນດ້າຍ"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "dāi",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ດ້າຍ"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "filum"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "acia"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dzija"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "verpalai"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German",
"neuter"
],
"word": "Goorn"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "predivo",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "предиво"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "preǵa",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "преѓа"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "predeno",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "предено"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "yarn"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "garn"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "eermel",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "ээрмэл"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "utas",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "утас"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "garn"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "garn"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 13 7",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fil"
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"ref": "1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous",
"text": "\"He yarns good,\" said Tom Platt. \"T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em.\"",
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"text": "1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,\n“Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”"
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"ref": "1942, Neville Shute, chapter 7, in Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co",
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"word": "ამბის მოყოლა"
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"word": "ချည်"
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"masculine"
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"code": "ka",
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{
"code": "ka",
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"alt": "けいと",
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"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "毛糸"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "jıp",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "жіп"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "ʼɑmbɑh",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "អំបោះ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sil",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "실"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "teolsil",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "털실"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "jip",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "жип"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "sen dāi",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ເສັ້ນດ້າຍ"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "dāi",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ດ້າຍ"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "acia"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dzija"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "verpalai"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German",
"neuter"
],
"word": "Goorn"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "predivo",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "предиво"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "preǵa",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "преѓа"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "predeno",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "предено"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "yarn"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "garn"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "eermel",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "ээрмэл"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "utas",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "утас"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "garn"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "garn"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fil"
},
{
"code": "oj",
"lang": "Ojibwe",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "miskogaadeyaab"
},
{
"code": "cu",
"lang": "Church Slavic",
"roman": "pręžda",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ġearn"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "iplik",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ایپلك"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kâmvâ",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "کاموا"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nax",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "نخ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "خیط"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "przędza"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "włóczka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lã"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "q'aytu"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fir"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ață"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prjáža",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пря́жа"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "пре̏дӣво"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "пре̏ђа"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "prȅdīvo"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "prȅđa"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "priadza"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "pradivo"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "preja"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hilado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "lana"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hilaza"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "garn"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "nax",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "нах"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "rišta",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ришта"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "resmon",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ресмон"
},
{
"code": "shi",
"lang": "Tashelhit",
"roman": "tilmi",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ⵜⵉⵍⵎⵉ"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sên-dâai",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "เส้นด้าย"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "dâai",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ด้าย"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "iplik"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ýüplük"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prjáža",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пря́жа"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "sūt",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "سوت"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "ip"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"word": "sợi"
},
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"code": "wa",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
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"code": "wa",
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"natural",
"usually"
],
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},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "edau"
},
{
"code": "cy",
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"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
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"plural"
],
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},
{
"code": "esu",
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"word": "kistaq"
},
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"code": "zza",
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"sense": "fiber strand for knitting or weaving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "layêk"
},
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "nautical",
"word": "garn"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"word": "lanka"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "corde"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "nautical",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Tau"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "khut khevel",
"sense": "nautical",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "חוּט חֶבֶל"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "nautical",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cordame"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "nautical",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cordaggio"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "nautical",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "skrętka"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "story",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fil"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "story",
"word": "tarina"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "story",
"word": "juttu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "story",
"word": "sepustus"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "motxroba",
"sense": "story",
"word": "მოთხრობა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "naambobi",
"sense": "story",
"word": "ნაამბობი"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ma'asiya",
"sense": "story",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "מַעֲשִׂיָּה"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "story",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "trama"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "story",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"alt": "ほらばなし",
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},
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "приказна"
},
{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "story",
"word": "kōrero paki"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "story",
"word": "kōrero whakakata"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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"word": "opowieść"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "basm"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "poveste"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "story",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ба́йка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nebylíca",
"sense": "story",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "небыли́ца"
},
{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "story",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "príbeh"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "story",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cuento"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "story",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "historia"
}
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"word": "yarn on"
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"word": "yarner"
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},
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{
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"3": "",
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},
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},
{
"args": {
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"expansion": "Danish garn",
"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "garn",
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},
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},
{
"args": {
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"3": "",
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
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"3": "",
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"3": "",
"4": "string"
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},
{
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},
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"name": "l"
}
],
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"form": "yarns",
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},
{
"form": "yarning",
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},
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}
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous",
"text": "\"He yarns good,\" said Tom Platt. \"T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,\n“Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”"
},
{
"ref": "1942, Neville Shute, chapter 7, in Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co",
"text": "They had stayed in some little pension and had gone for little, bored walks while the colonel went out in the boats with the fisherman, or sat yarning with them in the café.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/jɑːn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/jɑɹn/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)n"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-yarn.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/En-us-yarn.ogg/En-us-yarn.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/En-us-yarn.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-yarn.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/00/En-au-yarn.ogg/En-au-yarn.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-yarn.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "yän"
},
{
"enpr": "yärn"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razkazvam nebivalici",
"sense": "To tell a story",
"word": "разказвам небивалици"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ambis moq̇ola",
"sense": "To tell a story",
"word": "ამბის მოყოლა"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "raskážuva",
"sense": "To tell a story",
"word": "раска́жува"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To tell a story",
"word": "kōrero paki"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "travim bajki",
"sense": "To tell a story",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "травим байки"
}
],
"word": "yarn"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": phòng-se vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"yarn"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "yarn",
"trace": ""
}
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