word-vault/dist/data/cards/ro/robot.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "robot",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a machine that can perform a complicated series of tasks by itself",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "These cars are built by robots."
                },
                {
                    "text": "On her first flight she was responsible for operating the shuttle's robot arm."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business", "Engineering"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "(especially in stories) a machine that is made to look like a human and that can do some things that a human can do",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a toy robot"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The action starts when an army of giant robots invades Manhattan."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a traffic light",
            "labels": "(South African English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Turn left at the first robot."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrəʊbɒt/",
                "audio": "ro/robot/robot__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrəʊbɑːt/",
                "audio": "ro/robot/robot__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "from Czech, from robota ‘forced labour’. The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘ Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920)."
}