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"etymology_text": "Del inglés medio shere, scheere, schere, skere y este del inglés antiguo sċǣre y este del protogermánico *skīriz ('puro');",
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"longitud silábica": "monosílaba"
},
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"pos": "adj",
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11,
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],
"text": "Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention."
}
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"Muy fino o transparente."
],
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"Puro en composición; sin mezclar; no adulterado."
],
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14,
19
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],
"text": "I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing."
},
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13,
18
]
],
"text": "This poem is sheer nonsense."
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
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35,
40
]
],
"text": "Through technological wizardry and sheer audacity, Google has shown how we can transform the intellectual riches of our libraries […] ."
}
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"glosses": [
"(por extensión) Completo, puro."
],
"id": "es-sheer-en-adj-ZFbSR~hR",
"sense_index": "3"
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"text": "The army's sheer size made it impossible to resist."
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"glosses": [
"Se usa para enfatizar la cantidad o el grado de algo."
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"examples": [
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],
"text": "It was a sheer drop of 180 feet."
}
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"glosses": [
"Muy empinado; casi vertical o perpendicular."
],
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"sense_index": "5"
}
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"tags": [
"Australia"
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"homophone": "Scheer"
},
{
"homophone": "shear"
}
],
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"EN:Palabras monosílabas",
"EN:Palabras provenientes del inglés medio",
"Inglés"
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"Muy fino o transparente."
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"Puro en composición; sin mezclar; no adulterado."
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13,
18
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"text": "This poem is sheer nonsense."
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35,
40
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"text": "Through technological wizardry and sheer audacity, Google has shown how we can transform the intellectual riches of our libraries […] ."
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"(por extensión) Completo, puro."
],
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16
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"text": "The army's sheer size made it impossible to resist."
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"Se usa para enfatizar la cantidad o el grado de algo."
],
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9,
14
]
],
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"Muy empinado; casi vertical o perpendicular."
],
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"homophone": "Scheer"
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{
"homophone": "shear"
}
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"word": "sheer"
}
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