word-vault/dist/data/cards/mi/microscope.json

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{
    "term": "microscope",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "image": "data/images/la/laboratory_equipment.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an instrument used in scientific study for making very small things look larger so that you can examine them carefully",
            "sensetop": "under a/the microscopethrough a/the microscope",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a microscope slide"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bacteria were then examined under the microscope.",
                    "contextForm": "under a/the microscope"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a section of a potato as seen through a microscope",
                    "contextForm": "through a/the microscope"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Scientific research"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["binocular", "electron", "high-powered"],
                "microscope + noun": ["slide"],
                "preposition": ["through a/​the microscope", "under a/​the microscope"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you put something under the microscope you examine or analyse it in great detail",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In the play, love and marriage are put under the microscope."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmaɪkrəskəʊp/",
                "audio": "mi/microscope/microscope__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmaɪkrəskəʊp/",
                "audio": "mi/microscope/microscope__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from modern Latin microscopium (from micro- and -scope, from modern Latin -scopium, from Greek skopein ‘look at’)."
}