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{
"term": "habit",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a thing that you do often and almost without thinking, especially something that is hard to stop doing",
"sensetop": "habit of doing somethingin the habit of doing something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "You need to change your **eating habits**."
},
{
"text": "**good/bad habits**"
},
{
"text": "Most of us **have** some undesirable **habits**."
},
{
"text": "The strategy is helping children **develop the habit** of reading for fun.",
"contextForm": "habit of doing something"
},
{
"text": "It's all right to borrow money occasionally, but don't **let it become a habit**."
},
{
"text": "I'd prefer you not to **make a habit** of it."
},
{
"text": "I'm trying to **break the habit** of staying up too late."
},
{
"text": "These things have a habit of coming back to haunt you."
},
{
"text": "I'm not in the habit of letting strangers into my apartment.",
"contextForm": "in the habit of doing something"
},
{
"text": "I've **got into the habit of** turning on the TV as soon as I get home."
},
{
"text": "She has some very annoying habits."
},
{
"text": "He has the irritating habit of biting his nails."
},
{
"text": "Healthy lifestyle habits begin when you're young."
},
{
"text": "I found some of his personal habits rather disconcerting."
},
{
"text": "I got out of the habit of getting up early."
},
{
"text": "I had fallen into my old bad habit of leaving everything until the last minute."
},
{
"text": "Make a habit of noting down any interesting ideas for songs."
},
{
"text": "It was a nervous habit she'd had for years."
},
{
"text": "It's hard to change the habit of a lifetime."
},
{
"text": "Mental habits are not easily changed."
},
{
"text": "The pills affected your sleeping habits."
},
{
"text": "an effort to change the buying habits of the British public"
},
{
"text": "women's television viewing habits"
},
{
"text": "Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself."
},
{
"text": "You must break yourself of the habit."
},
{
"text": "one of his more endearing habits"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["annoying", "antisocial", "bad"],
"verb + habit": ["be in", "have", "acquire"],
"habit + verb": ["change"],
"preposition": ["by habit", "from habit", "out of habit"],
"phrases": [
"a creature of habit",
"force of habit",
"the habit of a lifetime"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "usual behaviour",
"sensetop": "out of habit",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I only do it out of habit.",
"contextForm": "out of habit"
},
{
"text": "I'm a **creature of habit** *(= I have a fixed and regular way of doing things)*."
},
{
"text": "Mr Norris woke up early from force of habit."
},
{
"text": "Much of what we do in daily life is done by habit."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["annoying", "antisocial", "bad"],
"verb + habit": ["be in", "have", "acquire"],
"habit + verb": ["change"],
"preposition": ["by habit", "from habit", "out of habit"],
"phrases": [
"a creature of habit",
"force of habit",
"the habit of a lifetime"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a strong need to keep using drugs, alcohol or cigarettes regularly",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He began to finance his habit through burglary."
},
{
"text": "She's tried to give up smoking but just can't **kick the habit**."
},
{
"text": "a 50-a-day habit"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["annoying", "antisocial", "bad"],
"verb + habit": ["be in", "have", "acquire"],
"habit + verb": ["change"],
"preposition": ["by habit", "from habit", "out of habit"],
"phrases": [
"a creature of habit",
"force of habit",
"the habit of a lifetime"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a long piece of clothing worn by a monk or nun",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "if you do something from or out of force of habit, you do it without thinking about it and in a particular way because you have always done it that way in the past",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's force of habit that gets me out of bed at 6.15 each morning."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhæbɪt/",
"audio": "ha/habit/habit__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhæbɪt/",
"audio": "ha/habit/habit__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French abit, habit, from Latin habitus ‘condition, appearance’, from habere ‘have, consist of’. The term originally meant ‘dress, attire’, later coming to denote physical or mental constitution."
}