word-vault/dist/data/cards/ch/characterize.json

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{
    "term": "characterize",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "characterize",
            "heSheIt": "characterizes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "characterized",
        "pastParticiple": "characterized",
        "ingForm": "characterizing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to be typical of a person, place or thing",
            "sensetop": "characterize somebody/something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the rolling hills that characterize this part of England"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The city is characterized by tall modern buildings in steel and glass."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to describe or show the qualities of somebody/something in a particular way",
            "sensetop": "characterize somebody/somethingcharacterize somebody/something as something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "How would you characterize the mood of the 1990s?",
                    "contextForm": "characterize somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her political views have been characterized as ‘extreme’.",
                    "contextForm": "characterize somebody/something as something"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkærəktəraɪz/",
                "audio": "ch/characterize/characterize__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkærəktəraɪzɪz/",
                "audio": "ch/characterize/characterizes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkærəktəraɪzd/",
                "audio": "ch/characterize/characterized__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkærəktəraɪzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ch/characterize/characterizing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkærəktəraɪz/",
                "audio": "ch/characterize/characterize__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkærəktəraɪzɪz/",
                "audio": "ch/characterize/characterizes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkærəktəraɪzd/",
                "audio": "ch/characterize/characterized__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkærəktəraɪzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ch/characterize/characterizing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘engrave, inscribe’): from French caractériser or medieval Latin characterizare, from Greek kharaktērizein, from kharaktēr ‘a stamping tool’."
}