word-vault/dist/data/cards/sy/symptom.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "symptom",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a change in your body or mind that shows that you are not healthy",
            "sensetop": "symptom of something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Symptoms include a headache and sore throat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If symptoms persist, consult your doctor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **experience symptoms** of anxiety and depression",
                    "contextForm": "symptom of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **show/develop symptoms** of illness"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **relieve/alleviate symptoms**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was hospitalized with extreme flu-like symptoms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "40% of patients were treated within three hours of the onset of symptoms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you describe your symptoms?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Cigarettes can aggravate the symptoms of a cold."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Not all carriers of the disease develop symptoms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nurses are taught how to identify and treat the symptoms of poisoning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had all the classic symptoms of the disorder."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The patient was admitted presenting with flu symptoms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These virus infections display obvious visual symptoms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "after two symptom-free years"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the physical symptoms that are the result of stress"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Look out for symptoms of depression."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Health problems"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["characteristic", "classic", "common"],
                "verb + symptom": ["display", "exhibit", "experience"],
                "symptom + verb": ["appear", "arise", "develop"],
                "phrases": ["the onset of symptoms"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a sign that something exists, especially something bad",
            "sensetop": "symptom (of something)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The rise in inflation was just one symptom of the poor state of the economy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their relationship was obviously failing, but they just ignored the symptoms."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "indication",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["characteristic", "classic", "common"],
                "verb + symptom": ["display", "exhibit", "experience"],
                "symptom + verb": ["appear", "arise", "develop"],
                "phrases": ["the onset of symptoms"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɪmptəm/",
                "audio": "sy/symptom/symptom__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɪmptəm/",
                "audio": "sy/symptom/symptom__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English synthoma, from medieval Latin, based on Greek sumptōma ‘chance, symptom’, from sumpiptein ‘happen’; later influenced by French symptome."
}