"zylon" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Trademarked name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Zylon",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "zylon (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Tom Clancy, Martin Greenberg, chapter 20, in Shadow Watch,, New York: Berkley Books, page 314:",
          "text": "They wore Zylon soft body armor and load-bearing vests accessorized with baton and knife holders […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A synthetic polymer material, a range of thermoset liquid-crystalline polyoxazole developed in the 1980s."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "synthetic",
          "synthetic"
        ],
        [
          "polymer",
          "polymer"
        ],
        [
          "material",
          "material"
        ],
        [
          "thermoset",
          "thermoset"
        ],
        [
          "polyoxazole",
          "polyoxazole"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1955, Gabrielle Roy, chapter 1, in Harry Binsse, transl., The Cashier, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, page 9:",
          "text": "Like many imaginative men, Alexandre felt that he was not made for the century in which he lived, this epoch of appalling tedium all too little relieved by gadgets, by nickel, aluminum, plastic, celluloid, Bakelite, nylon, zylon.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Philip Roth, “The Jewish Blues”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 41:",
          "text": "I scream, extracting from my closet the zylon jacket I wear only with my collar up (a style she abhors as much as the filthy garment itself).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An earlier synthetic material."
      ],
      "id": "en-zylon-en-noun-hZV6XapQ",
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Zylon"
  ],
  "word": "zylon"
}

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    "English uncountable nouns",
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    "Pages with entries"
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  "etymology_text": "Trademarked name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Zylon",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      },
      "expansion": "zylon (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Tom Clancy, Martin Greenberg, chapter 20, in Shadow Watch,, New York: Berkley Books, page 314:",
          "text": "They wore Zylon soft body armor and load-bearing vests accessorized with baton and knife holders […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A synthetic polymer material, a range of thermoset liquid-crystalline polyoxazole developed in the 1980s."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "synthetic",
          "synthetic"
        ],
        [
          "polymer",
          "polymer"
        ],
        [
          "material",
          "material"
        ],
        [
          "thermoset",
          "thermoset"
        ],
        [
          "polyoxazole",
          "polyoxazole"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1955, Gabrielle Roy, chapter 1, in Harry Binsse, transl., The Cashier, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, page 9:",
          "text": "Like many imaginative men, Alexandre felt that he was not made for the century in which he lived, this epoch of appalling tedium all too little relieved by gadgets, by nickel, aluminum, plastic, celluloid, Bakelite, nylon, zylon.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Philip Roth, “The Jewish Blues”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 41:",
          "text": "I scream, extracting from my closet the zylon jacket I wear only with my collar up (a style she abhors as much as the filthy garment itself).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An earlier synthetic material."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Zylon"
  ],
  "word": "zylon"
}