"D.C." meaning in Anglais

See D.C. in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

  1. Courant continu.
    Sense id: fr-D.C.-en-noun-3Nj5hbH6 Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire, Lexique en anglais de l’électricité Topics: electricity
  2. Washington, D.C..
    Sense id: fr-D.C.-en-noun-dhSi7aKb Categories (other): Lexique en anglais de la géographie Topics: geography
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: DC

Download JSONL data for D.C. meaning in Anglais (1.5kB)

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Localités des États-Unis en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Sigles en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "(Sigle) Initiales de Direct Current ou de District of Columbia."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "DC"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lexique en anglais de l’électricité",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Poul Anderson, Trader to the stars, 1964",
          "text": "Where D.C. is needed, the A.C. passes through a set of rectifier plates, which, by looking at ’em, I’m sure must be copper oxide."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Courant continu."
      ],
      "id": "fr-D.C.-en-noun-3Nj5hbH6",
      "topics": [
        "electricity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lexique en anglais de la géographie",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Washington, D.C.."
      ],
      "id": "fr-D.C.-en-noun-dhSi7aKb",
      "topics": [
        "geography"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "invariable"
  ],
  "word": "D.C."
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Lemmes en anglais",
    "Localités des États-Unis en anglais",
    "Noms communs en anglais",
    "Sigles en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "(Sigle) Initiales de Direct Current ou de District of Columbia."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "DC"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Lexique en anglais de l’électricité"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Poul Anderson, Trader to the stars, 1964",
          "text": "Where D.C. is needed, the A.C. passes through a set of rectifier plates, which, by looking at ’em, I’m sure must be copper oxide."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Courant continu."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "electricity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Lexique en anglais de la géographie"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Washington, D.C.."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "invariable"
  ],
  "word": "D.C."
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Anglais dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-07-16 from the frwiktionary dump dated 2024-07-01 using wiktextract (446037d and 7cfad79). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.