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{ "term": "earth", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a2", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "the world; the planet that we live on", "sensetop": "on earth", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "the **planet Earth**" }, { "text": "The earth revolves around the sun." }, { "text": "a satellite orbiting the earth" }, { "text": "the **earth's surface/crust**" }, { "text": "the history of **life on earth**", "contextForm": "on earth" }, { "text": "I must be the happiest person on earth!" }, { "text": "No one knows what happens to us after we leave this earth." }, { "text": "The Bible says the meek will inherit the earth." }, { "text": "The earth revolves on its axis." }, { "text": "a lost spirit, wandering the earth" }, { "text": "humans and other species that inhabit the earth" }, { "text": "the last asteroid that hit the earth" }, { "text": "the moon's orbit around the earth" }, { "text": "She believed that demons walked the earth." }, { "text": "when dinosaurs roamed the earth" }, { "text": "The astronauts were able to send the information back to earth." } ], "topics": ["Space"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["the entire", "the whole"], "verb + earth": ["circle", "orbit", "create"], "earth + verb": ["orbit something", "revolve", "rotate"], "earth + noun": ["history", "sciences", "scientist"], "preposition": [ "above the earth", "around the earth", "round the earth" ], "phrases": [ "inherit the earth", "(the) planet earth", "the centre/center of the earth" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "land; the hard surface of the world that is not the sea or the sky; the ground", "sensetop": "above the earthunder/below/beneath the earth", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "After a week at sea, it was good to feel the earth beneath our feet again." }, { "text": "fifty feet above the earth", "contextForm": "above the earth" }, { "text": "in mines deep under the earth", "contextForm": "under/below/beneath the earth" }, { "text": "You could feel the earth shake as the truck came closer." }, { "text": "Furniture fell over as the room was shaken by an earth tremor." }, { "text": "The wreckage of the plane was scattered across the parched earth." }, { "text": "The bunker is located deep below the earth." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["bare", "fertile", "barren"], "… of earth": ["clod", "clump", "lump"], "earth + verb": ["shake", "tremble"], "earth + noun": ["bank", "mound", "tremor"], "preposition": ["in the earth", "under the earth"] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "the substance that plants grow in", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "a clod/mound of earth" }, { "text": "I cleaned off the earth clinging to my boots." }, { "text": "I filled the pot with a handful of loose earth." }, { "text": "I scrambled to the top of the steep earth bank." }, { "text": "My boots were caked in big clods of wet earth." }, { "text": "The fields had been ploughed, and there was nothing but bare earth to be seen." }, { "text": "The plants must have their roots in the earth." }, { "text": "The sun beat down on the baked earth." }, { "text": "Dig the earth to a depth of two spade lengths." }, { "text": "His boots sank into the soft earth." }, { "text": "In the air was the smell of freshly dug earth." } ], "topics": ["Farming"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["bare", "fertile", "barren"], "… of earth": ["clod", "clump", "lump"], "earth + verb": ["shake", "tremble"], "earth + noun": ["bank", "mound", "tremor"], "preposition": ["in the earth", "under the earth"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "the hole under the ground where an animal, especially a fox, lives", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "a wire that connects an electric circuit with the ground and makes it safe", "labels": "(British English)North American English", "cefr": "c2", "examples": [], "topics": ["Engineering"] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to be, feel, look, taste, etc. very bad", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to charge, etc. a lot of money", "labels": "(British English, informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "I'd love that dress, but it costs the earth." }, { "text": "If you want a house in London, you’ll have to pay the earth for it." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to return, or to make somebody return, to a normal way of thinking or behaving after a time when you/they have been very excited, not very practical, etc.", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to disappear completely", "examples": [ { "text": "Keep looking—they can't just have vanished off the face of the earth." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to hide, especially to escape from somebody", "labels": "(British English)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to do everything possible, even if it is difficult, in order to get or achieve something", "examples": [ { "text": "I'd go to the ends of the earth to see her again." } ], "topics": ["Success"] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used to emphasize the question you are asking when you are surprised or angry or cannot think of an obvious answer", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "What on earth are you doing?" }, { "text": "How on earth can she afford that?" } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to do everything you possibly can in order to achieve something", "examples": [], "topics": ["Success"] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used after negative nouns or pronouns to emphasize what you are saying", "examples": [ { "text": "Nothing on earth would persuade me to go with him." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to make promises that will be impossible to keep", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "Politicians promise the earth before an election, but things are different afterwards." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to find somebody/something after looking hard for a long time", "labels": "(British English)", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a very good and honest person that you can always depend on", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to destroy or remove somebody/something completely", "examples": [] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/ɜːθ/", "audio": "ea/earth/earth__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/ɜːrθ/", "audio": "ea/earth/earth__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "Old English eorthe, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aarde and German Erde." }