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{
"term": "junction",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the place where two or more roads or railway lines meet",
"labels": "(especially British English)North American English usually",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It was near the junction of City Road and Old Street."
},
{
"text": "Come off the motorway at junction 6."
},
{
"text": "The most complicated motorway interchange in Britain is known as Spaghetti Junction."
},
{
"text": "In the 19th century the town became an important railway junction."
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by bus and train"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["busy", "dangerous", "motorway"],
"preposition": ["at a/the junction", "junction with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a place where two or more cables, rivers or other things meet or are joined",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a telephone junction box"
},
{
"text": "the junction between nerves and muscles"
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by car or lorry"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["busy", "dangerous", "motorway"],
"preposition": ["at a/the junction", "junction with"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒʌŋkʃn/",
"audio": "ju/junction/junction__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒʌŋkʃn/",
"audio": "ju/junction/junction__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 18th cent. (originally meaning the action or fact of being joined): from Latin junctio(n-), from jungere ‘to join’."
}