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{
"term": "series",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a set of television or radio programmes or podcasts that deal with the same subject or that have the same characters",
"labels": "(British English)(North American English)(especially British English)(especially North American English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)(British English)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The first episode of the new series is on Saturday."
},
{
"text": "Her stories have been made into a **TV series**."
},
{
"text": "She has a small part in a drama series for radio."
},
{
"text": "the hit comedy series ‘The Big Bang Theory’"
},
{
"text": "a special two-part series on the economy"
},
{
"text": "The BBC has already commissioned a second series."
},
{
"text": "We watched the final part of a series on Australian wildlife."
}
],
"topics": ["TV, radio and news"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["radio", "television", "TV"],
"verb + series": ["film", "commission", "broadcast"],
"preposition": ["in a/the series", "series about", "series on"],
"phrases": ["an episode of a series", "a part of a series"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "several events or things of a similar kind that happen one after the other",
"sensetop": "series of somethingin a series of something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The incident sparked off a **series of events** that nobody had foreseen.",
"contextForm": "series of something"
},
{
"text": "This case raises a **whole series** of important questions."
},
{
"text": "The two sides held a series of meetings in the summer."
},
{
"text": "The movie consisted of a series of flashbacks."
},
{
"text": "This is the latest in a series of articles on the nature of modern society.",
"contextForm": "in a series of something"
},
{
"text": "He is in hospital for a whole series of tests."
},
{
"text": "The quartet will be performing in a series of lunchtime concerts."
},
{
"text": "He had committed a series of minor criminal offences."
},
{
"text": "The shooting was the latest in a series of violent attacks in the city."
},
{
"text": "You will need to have a series of vaccinations before you visit the area."
},
{
"text": "the final book in the series"
},
{
"text": "She wrote a whole series of novels between 1985 and 2005."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["entire", "whole", "ongoing"],
"preposition": ["in a/the series", "series of"],
"phrases": [
"the first of a/the series",
"the last of a/the series",
"the first in a series"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a set of sports games played between the same two teams",
"labels": "(sport)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the **World Series** *(= in baseball)*"
},
{
"text": "England have lost the **Test series** *(= of matches)* against India."
},
{
"text": "India must win to level the series."
},
{
"text": "They took the first two games in the series."
},
{
"text": "The Bronx Bombers won two of three in a weekend series with the Red Sox."
}
],
"topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["racing", "World Series", "championship"],
"verb + series": ["lose", "win", "level"],
"preposition": ["in the series", "series with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "an electrical circuit in which the current passes through all the parts in the correct order",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "batteries connected in series"
},
{
"text": "a series circuit"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsɪəriːz/",
"audio": "se/series/series__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsɪriːz/",
"audio": "se/series/series__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘row, chain’, from serere ‘join, connect’."
}