JSON response for the word 'complex'

oxford-dict-complex.json

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    },
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            "id": "complex",
            "language": "en",
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                {
                    "entries": [
                        {
                            "etymologies": [
                                "mid 17th century (in the sense ‘group of related elements’): from Latin complexus, past participle (used as a noun) of complectere ‘embrace, comprise’, later associated with complexus ‘plaited’; the adjective is partly via French complexe"
                            ],
                            "grammaticalFeatures": [
                                {
                                    "text": "Positive",
                                    "type": "Degree"
                                }
                            ],
                            "homographNumber": "000",
                            "senses": [
                                {
                                    "definitions": [
                                        "consisting of many different and connected parts"
                                    ],
                                    "examples": [
                                        {
                                            "text": "a complex network of water channels"
                                        }
                                    ],
                                    "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.010",
                                    "subsenses": [
                                        {
                                            "definitions": [
                                                "not easy to analyse or understand; complicated or intricate"
                                            ],
                                            "examples": [
                                                {
                                                    "text": "the situation is more complex than it appears"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "text": "a complex personality"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.012"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                },
                                {
                                    "definitions": [
                                        "denoting or involving numbers or quantities containing both a real and an imaginary part."
                                    ],
                                    "domains": [
                                        "Mathematics"
                                    ],
                                    "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.014"
                                },
                                {
                                    "definitions": [
                                        "denoting an ion or molecule in which one or more groups are linked to a metal atom by coordinate bonds"
                                    ],
                                    "domains": [
                                        "Chemistry"
                                    ],
                                    "examples": [
                                        {
                                            "text": "in naming complex ions, the names of the ligands are cited first"
                                        }
                                    ],
                                    "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.016"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ],
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                    "lexicalCategory": "Adjective",
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                            "dialects": [
                                "British English"
                            ],
                            "phoneticNotation": "IPA",
                            "phoneticSpelling": "ˈkɒmplɛks"
                        }
                    ],
                    "text": "complex"
                },
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                    "entries": [
                        {
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                                {
                                    "text": "Singular",
                                    "type": "Number"
                                }
                            ],
                            "homographNumber": "001",
                            "senses": [
                                {
                                    "definitions": [
                                        "a group or system of different things that are linked in a close or complicated way; a network"
                                    ],
                                    "examples": [
                                        {
                                            "text": "a complex of mountain roads"
                                        }
                                    ],
                                    "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.019",
                                    "subsenses": [
                                        {
                                            "definitions": [
                                                "a group of similar buildings or facilities on the same site"
                                            ],
                                            "examples": [
                                                {
                                                    "text": "a leisure complex"
                                                },
                                                {
                                                    "text": "a complex of hotels"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.022"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                },
                                {
                                    "definitions": [
                                        "a related group of repressed or partly repressed emotionally significant ideas which cause psychic conflict leading to abnormal mental states or behaviour."
                                    ],
                                    "domains": [
                                        "Psychology"
                                    ],
                                    "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.024",
                                    "subsenses": [
                                        {
                                            "definitions": [
                                                "a strong or disproportionate concern or anxiety about something"
                                            ],
                                            "examples": [
                                                {
                                                    "text": "there's no point having a complex about losing your hair"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.025",
                                            "registers": [
                                                "informal"
                                            ]
                                        }
                                    ]
                                },
                                {
                                    "definitions": [
                                        "an ion or molecule in which one or more groups are linked to a metal atom by coordinate bonds"
                                    ],
                                    "domains": [
                                        "Chemistry"
                                    ],
                                    "examples": [
                                        {
                                            "text": "two guanine bases can attach themselves to the same platinum atom, forming a stable complex"
                                        }
                                    ],
                                    "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.027",
                                    "subsenses": [
                                        {
                                            "definitions": [
                                                "any loosely bonded species formed by the association of two molecules"
                                            ],
                                            "domains": [
                                                "Physics"
                                            ],
                                            "examples": [
                                                {
                                                    "text": "cross-linked protein–DNA complexes"
                                                }
                                            ],
                                            "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.028"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            ]
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                    "lexicalCategory": "Noun",
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                            "dialects": [
                                "British English"
                            ],
                            "phoneticNotation": "IPA",
                            "phoneticSpelling": "ˈkɒmplɛks"
                        }
                    ],
                    "text": "complex"
                },
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                    "entries": [
                        {
                            "grammaticalFeatures": [
                                {
                                    "text": "Transitive",
                                    "type": "Subcategorization"
                                },
                                {
                                    "text": "Present",
                                    "type": "Tense"
                                }
                            ],
                            "homographNumber": "002",
                            "senses": [
                                {
                                    "definitions": [
                                        "make (an atom or compound) form a complex with another"
                                    ],
                                    "domains": [
                                        "Chemistry"
                                    ],
                                    "examples": [
                                        {
                                            "text": "the DNA was complexed with the nuclear extract"
                                        }
                                    ],
                                    "id": "m_en_gbus0206340.046"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ],
                    "language": "en",
                    "lexicalCategory": "Verb",
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                            "dialects": [
                                "British English"
                            ],
                            "phoneticNotation": "IPA",
                            "phoneticSpelling": "ˈkɒmplɛks"
                        }
                    ],
                    "text": "complex"
                }
            ],
            "type": "headword",
            "word": "complex"
        }
    ]
}