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{
"term": "technical",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "connected with the practical use of machines, methods, etc. in science and industry",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We offer free **technical support** for those buying our software."
},
{
"text": "The organization provides **technical assistance** to farmers."
},
{
"text": "**technical skills/expertise**."
},
{
"text": "technical education"
},
{
"text": "technical drawing *(= especially taught as a school subject)*"
},
{
"text": "This is a purely **technical issue**."
}
],
"topics": ["Engineering"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "sound", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "connected with the skills needed for a particular job, sport, art, etc.",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She doesn't possess the technical ability to perform the song well."
},
{
"text": "Skaters score extra points for technical complexity."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "sound", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "connected with a particular subject and therefore difficult to understand if you do not know about that subject",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "A lot of the discussions were **highly technical**."
},
{
"text": "The article is full of **technical terms**."
},
{
"text": "The guide is too technical for a non-specialist."
},
{
"text": "The conversation was getting a bit technical for me, so I left them to it."
},
{
"text": "Without getting too technical, this is basically how it works."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "sound", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "connected with the details of a law or set of rules",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Their lawyers spent days arguing over technical details."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "sound", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈteknɪkl/",
"audio": "te/technical/technical__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈteknɪkl/",
"audio": "te/technical/technical__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}