tricklen.1
/ˈtrɪk(ə)l/ A falling or flowing drop; a tear; a small quantity of liquid; a small fitful stream.
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the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > small
dropc1290
drewc1430
gutta1562
trickle1580
dribblea1682
sye1781
dreg1821
driblet1861
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > in drops or trickles
trickle1580
exstillation1605
trickling1629
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount
speckc725
littleOE
somethingc1200
lutewihtc1230
little whatc1384
ouncec1387
lap1393
smalla1400
modicumc1400
nekedc1400
spota1413
tinec1420
nieveful?a1425
handfulc1443
mouthful?c1450
smatchc1456
weec1480
quern1503
halfpennyworth1533
groatsworth1562
dram1566
shellful1578
trickle1580
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sprinkling1594
fleck1598
snip1598
pittance1600
lick1603
fingerful1604
modicum1606
thimbleful1607
flash1614
dasha1616
pipa1616
pickle1629
drachm1635
cue1654
smack1693
starn1720
bit1753
kenning1787
minikin1787
tate1805
starnie1808
sprat1815
harl1821
skerrick1825
smallums1828
huckleberry1832
scrimp1840
thimble1841
smite1843
nattering1859
sensation1859
spurt1859
pauchlea1870
mention1891
sketch1894
sputterings1894
scrappet1901
titch1937
tad1940
skosh1959
smattering1973
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > that which flows > quantity > small amount
rill1615
rillet1840
trickle1857
trickling1863
tricklet1880
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Pleur, a teare, a trickle. [So 1611 in Cotgrave.]
1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Trickle, a drop.
1855 R. Browning Another Way of Love iii Delicious as trickles Of wine poured at mass-time.
1857 M. Gatty Parables 2nd Ser. 12 The pretty tumbling waterfall..was reduced to a miserable trickle.
1897 ‘A. Hope’ Phroso ix Vlacho's blood began to curl in a meandering trickle from beneath the curtain.
Compounds
trickle-charge n. (in quot. attributive) and. v. transitive.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > charge [verb (transitive)]
recharge1774
to top up1937
trickle-charge1959
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun] > storage battery > charging of > device for slow charging > charge from
trickle-charge1959
1959 Times 11 Sept. 7/4 It is ideal for trickle-charge operation.
1974 Undercurrents July–Aug. 3/3 This..produced a few hundred milliamps at about 10 volts in a fair breeze—enough to trickle-charge a small battery.
trickle-charged adj.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [adjective] > charged
trickle-charged1938
1938 Proc. Physical Soc. 50 422 The driving, demultiplying, and amplifying circuits were operated by trickle-charged batteries.
trickle charger n. a device for charging a storage battery at a low rate over a long period.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun] > storage battery > charging of > device for slow charging
trickle charger1927
1927 Observer 24 July 4/5 A fool-proof set..is provided with a ‘trickle charger’ for keeping the filament battery up to strength.
1977 Film & Television Technician Mar. 11/3 Complete with its internal rechargeable batteries and a built-in trickle charger, the D34 weighs in at only 12 lbs.
trickle-charging n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun] > storage battery > charging of > device for slow charging > use of
trickle-charging1960
1960 E. L. Delmar-Morgan Cruising Yacht Equipm. & Navigation xvi. 175 This ‘trickle charging’ is..harmful for the type of batteries used in yachts.
trickle-irrigate v. [as a back-formation] transitive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > irrigation > irrigate [verb (transitive)]
leachc888
water1538
irrigate1623
irriguate1632
float1649
trickle-irrigate1971
1971 World Bk. Sci. Ann. 1972 255 Vast areas in the Negev Desert of Israel are now trickle-irrigated.
trickle irrigation n. (see quot. 1969).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > irrigation > [noun]
field pondage1612
pondage1612
irrigation1626
floating-trench1649
masterwork1652
floating1669
catchwork1794
warping1799
watering1799
basin irrigation1903
sprinkler irrigation1908
sprinkling irrigation1910
spray irrigation1931
spray line1961
trickle irrigation1969
chemigation1981
1969 Gloss. for Landscape Work (B.S.I.) v. 13 Trickle irrigation, a method of supplying water by means of a restricted, controlled flow to the surface of a growing medium (usually at discrete points, one to each plant).
1975 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 43/1 The research workers..are hopeful that trickle irrigation, by maintaining even soil moisture, will give some help.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tricklen.2
= treddle n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > excrement
treddlec1000
treddlingc1440
trittle1526
trickle1598
trindle1607
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > droppings
treddlec1000
treddlingc1440
trittle1526
trickle1598
dribbling1599
trindle1607
sheep's pellet1647
button1684
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Cacarelle, the trickles or dung of sheepe, goates, rats or conies.
1639 O. Wood Alphabet. Bk. Physicall Secrets 23 Sheepes trickles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
† trickleadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Tricky, treacherous; ticklish; requiring caution; = tricky adj. 2.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or delicate
fine-fingered1549
brickle1568
kittle1568
tickle1569
delicate1574
trickle1579
chary1581
ticklesome1585
ticklish1591
jealous1600
tender1625
nicea1630
thorny1653
parlous1657
tricksy1835
niggling1851
tricky1868
catchy1874
pernickety1884
trickish1900
fiddly1926
footery1929
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 14 In humble dales is footing fast, The trode is not so trickle [v.r. tickle].
1594 Resolution Chast Wife in Willobie his Auisa f. 63v Such trickle trades procure a suddaine fall.
Derivatives
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or delicacy
kittleness1578
ticklishness1583
trickleness?1605
niceness1608
nicety1707
delicacy1753
subtlety1815
tricksiness1888
?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. S3v O Time..That neuer mou'st, but dost my Sences moue To mind thy flight, and this lifes trickelnesse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
tricklev.
/ˈtrɪk(ə)l/ 1. intransitive.
a. Originally said of tears: To flow or fall in successive drops.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > lachrymal organs > flow [verb (intransitive)]
tricklec1386
stress?a1400
silec1540
deraina1561
stream1812
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > drip or fall in drops [verb (intransitive)]
syec725
dreepa1000
dropc1000
tricklec1386
thrill1540
drill1603
dripa1670
c1386 G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale 222 Hise salte teeris trikled [v.rr. trekelede, stryked, striked, strikled] doun as reyn.
c1386 G. Chaucer Sompn. T. 156 With many a teare triklyng [v.rr. trynkelynge, trillyng] on my cheke.
a1400–50 Alexander 4974 Þar trekild doun of þa teres of iemmes [gems], Boyland out of þe barke bawme & mirre.
c1480 (a1400) St. Lawrence 278 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 410 Þane laurence handis one hym lad with t[r]ygland terys.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. xi. 14 The teris trigling [(ed. Small) thringling] ouer his chekis ran.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke vii. 74 The fete of Iesus beeyng well washed with teres tryclyng down from hir yies.
1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados iv. vi. 66 Be al thir teris trigilland [(ed. Small) tringling] ouer my face.
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 6 The bytter teares did trickle down their cheke.
1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Sapho to Phaon in tr. Ovid Epist. (ed. 8) 17 And silent Tears fall trickling from my Eyes.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton xi Tears of..joy trickled slowly down her cheeks.
b. Of other liquids; rarely of powders or granulated substances. Also, to flow in a very scanty and halting stream.
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the world > matter > liquid > water > actions or processes of water [verb (intransitive)]
sheerc1400
trickle1526
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > in drops or trickles
trinkle1513
trickle1526
slaver1582
strain1590
weep1600
exstill1657
treacle1899
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > in small quantity
sickerc897
stilla1300
bleedc1305
distilc1400
trail1470
trinkle1513
trickle1526
gozle1650
run1786
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. SSSvi Yssued out blod & water..lyke dropes tricclyng downe to ye grounde.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 583 From those moores Trent trickleth downe.
1683 J. Ware Hunting of Romish Fox v. 87 The Blood..ran thrô the crevises of the Crown of Thorns, and truckled down the Face of this Image.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 89 The Hill or Gullet where the Water trickled down from the Rocks.
1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. iii. 52 The flour was trickling down out of two wooden spouts.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) x. 241 A small glacier trickles into the desolate valley.
c. transferred and figurative. Also used facetiously for ‘to make one's way, go’. Cf. ooze v.1 4.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
teec888
goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
fare971
i-wende971
shakeOE
winda1000
meteOE
wendOE
strikec1175
seekc1200
wevec1200
drawa1225
stira1225
glidea1275
kenc1275
movec1275
teemc1275
tightc1275
till1297
chevec1300
strake13..
travelc1300
choosec1320
to choose one's gatea1325
journeyc1330
reachc1330
repairc1330
wisec1330
cairc1340
covera1375
dressa1375
passa1375
tenda1375
puta1382
proceedc1392
doa1400
fanda1400
haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
trinea1400
fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
wina1500
hent1508
persevere?1521
pursuec1540
rechec1540
yede1563
bing1567
march1568
to go one's ways1581
groyl1582
yode1587
sally1590
track1590
way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
recur1654
wag1684
fadge1694
haul1802
hike1809
to get around1849
riddle1856
bat1867
biff1923
truck1925
1629 [implied in: J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 34 The slow tricklings of his Mercie;..the full streame of outward blessings. (at trickling n. a)].
1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 163 Honey'd nonsense trickles from his tongue.
1758 S. Johnson Idler 27 May 57 The rivulets of knowledge, which are continually trickling among us.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 5 What can be more wonderful than to see a man's thoughts trickling from the end of his pen at the rate of nearly a word a second!
1901 Scotsman 11 Mar. 9/1 Then another thousand rupees came trickling in.
1912 R. Brooke Let. Feb. (1968) 357 I wrote to her, about her perhaps trickling down to Rugby.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas iii. 32 In these circs, it seemed to me that the best way of passing the time would be to trickle over to the table where the drinks were and brace myself with one or two.
1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile vii. 113 He headed for the lake. I trickled after him.
1983 Country Life 5 May 1194/3 Trickling through morning traffic..it [sc. a car] showed its docility by contentedly running in fifth.
2. intransitive. To emit falling or flowing drops; to drip or run (with tears, blood, etc.); to shed tears.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > emit liquid [verb (intransitive)] > drops
stilla1300
weep1387
tricklec1540
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)]
greetc725
weepc900
tearc950
plore1373
beweepc1374
to put one's finger in one's eye1447
waterc1450
lachryme1490
cryc1532
lerma1533
tricklec1540
to water one's plants1542
to show tears1553
shower1597
issuea1616
lachrymate1623
sheda1632
pipe1671
to take a pipe1671
to pipe one's eye (also eyes)?1789
twine1805
to let fall1816
whinnya1825
blub1866
slobber1875
blart1896
skrike1904
water-cart1914
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (intransitive)] > be emitted > emit in drops or trickle
tricklec1540
gozle1650
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8058 Yf the ton ee with teres trickell on hir chekes.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 Fast he stood: and trickling dyd speake.
1611 Bible (King James) Lament. iii. 49 Mine eye trickleth downe and ceaseth not. View more context for this quotation
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. ix. 82 His hand was trickling down with blood.
3.
a. transitive. To emit or give forth in successive drops or a thin fitful stream; also, to cause to trickle; to pour drop by drop, or in a fitful stream.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > emit [verb (transitive)] > in small quantity
trickle1602
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > pour [verb (transitive)] > out > drop by drop or in a fitful stream
trickle1602
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > emit in drops or trickle
shedc1175
berainc1420
drizzle1543
dribble1589
trickle1602
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. v. sig. K2 The vaines..Trickling fresh goare about my fist.
1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xxii. 147 We behold him..trickling blood.
1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 186 Ye gushing Fountains, that trickle potable silver through the matted grass.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. i. 132 The mills..oozed and trickled it [oil].
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xxi With adroit and tender hands they..trickled stimulants down her throat.
1878 T. L. Cuyler Pointed Papers 144 He knows every wound that trickles its silent drops from the bleeding spirit.
b. figurative with off or out: To let go one by one.
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the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)]
overdoOE
adreeOE
wreaka1300
to draw forthc1300
dispend1340
pass1340
drivea1375
wastec1381
occupyc1384
overpassa1387
to pass over ——a1393
usec1400
spend1423
contrive?a1475
overdrive1487
consumea1500
to pass forth1509
to drive off1517
lead1523
to ride out1529
to wear out, forth1530
to pass away?1550
to put offc1550
shiftc1562
to tire out1563
wear1567
to drive out1570
entertainc1570
expire1589
tire1589
outwear1590
to see out1590
outrun1592
outgo1595
overshoot1597
to pass out1603
fleeta1616
elapse1654
term1654
trickle1657
to put over1679
absorb1686
spin1696
exercise1711
kill1728
to get through ——1748
to get over ——1751
tickc1870
fill1875
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > let (persons) go away > one by one
trickle1907
1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 26 Thus doth the voluptuous man measure out his time, trickle out his hours.
1907 Blackwood's Mag. July 36/2 The company commanders begin to trickle off their men.
c. Sport. To cause (a ball) to travel slowly over the ground, esp. in golf. Also to trickle a putt. Also absol.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (transitive)] > type of play or stroke
drive1743
draw1842
heel1857
hook1857
loft1857
founder1878
to top a ball1881
chip1889
duff1890
pull1890
slice1890
undercut1891
hack1893
toe1893
spoon1896
borrow1897
overdrive1900
trickle1902
bolt1909
niblick1909
socket1911
birdie1921
eagle1921
shank1925
explode1926
bird1930
three-putt1946
bogey1948
double-bogey1952
fade1953
1902 Daily Chron. 20 Aug. 7/3 He can..trickle the ball away to fine-leg with a delicate turn of the wrist.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 6 Feb. 3/2 If you bolt at the hole, you will not need to make the same allowance for incline as if you trickled.
1927 Daily Tel. 14 Mar. 13/1 ‘I will trickle the..putt up to the hole.’.. It certainly was a trickle..for the ball stopped five feet short of the hole.
Compounds
trickle-down adj. originally and chiefly U.S. of or based on the theory that economic benefits to particular groups will inevitably be passed on to those less well off; also transferred as n., a filtering down (of money or ideas).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to specific theories or doctrines
physiocratical1789
Smithian1801
physiocratic1804
protective1822
Ricardian1824
cameralistic1831
Marshallian1894
monetarist1914
Paretian1916
neoclassical1926
marginalist1929
Keynesian1931
underconsumptionist1936
pre-Keynesian1939
Walrasian1942
trickle-down1944
neo-Keynesian1947
Schumpeterian1950
structuralist1962
monetaristic1972
market fundamentalist1997
society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun]
informinga1382
traditionc1384
informationa1393
kithinga1400
instruction?a1439
impartment1604
informance1604
re-representation1679
didactic1754
briefing1910
imparting1952
trickle-down1962
1931 W. Rogers in Tulsa Daily World 12 July iv. 7/3 What about the old Boys here on the home grounds? Well maybe this thing will eventually reach him in some beneficial way. Lord knows what way it may trickle down to him some day.]
1944 Antioch Rev. Summer 192 In agriculture, as in business, they are devotees of the trickle-down philosophy.
1949 H. S. Truman in Sun (Baltimore) 6 Jan. 6/1 We have rejected the discredited theory that the fortunes of the nation should be in the hands of a privileged few. We have abandoned the ‘trickle-down’ concept of national prosperity.
1954 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Feb. ( b ed.) 2/1 The Administration has already offered us a trickle-down tax program. Now, we are presented with a trickle-down housing program.
1962 C. Walsh From Utopia to Nightmare i. 18 There has been a trickle-down [of ideas] and permeation.
1971 Publishers' Weekly 6 Dec. 17/2 It is to be hoped that textbook writers come in contact with frontier thinkers or their writings and translate some of the results into educational materials. This is known as the ‘trickle-down’ process.
1977 Time 16 May 38/2 It's classic trickle-down economics.
1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts July 508/2 The theory that if you build the industrial capability and increase the GNP of the country there will be a trickle-down to people at subsistence level.
1981 Plate & Darvi Secret Police ii. 42 If the sovereign himself is corrupt or family and relatives are corrupt, there can be a trickle-down effect into the ranks.
1984 New Yorker 16 Apr. 82/2 To Fink this often sounded suspiciously like Republican trickle-down economics.
Draft additions March 2003
trickle-up adj. and n. [after trickle-down adj. at Compounds] originally and chiefly Politics and Political Economy (a) adj. of, relating to, or based on the theory that wealth, information, change, etc., moves or should move upward through a hierarchical structure or organization (as a company, an economy, a social group, etc.); (b) n. this theory or an instance of it in operation.
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1954 N.Y. Times 18 May 32/2 Roger M. Blough.., vice chairman of the board of directors of United States Steel, said here tonight the Administration tax bill now before Congress provided a ‘trickle-up prescription’ for our national well-being.
1969 Amer. Hist. Rev. 74 871 To push for world history in general education is not enough. It offers only a prospect of gradual osmosis of ideas, a ‘trickle up’ theory, that our leadership will eventually be so well educated in things Asian and Chinese, for example, that they will have the wit and wisdom to avoid disaster in our Asian relations.
1981 R. A. Falk Human Rights & State Sovereignty (1984) vi. 176 The United States and other advanced industrial societies have witnessed ‘trickle-up’ phenomena whenever assaults on poverty have been attempted without also transforming underlying societal structures.
1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 Apr. 29/1 In the real world, trickle-up is the thing. The tabloid sensibility is now rising from the gutter and soaking into the nation's publishing houses and bookstores.
1998 Financial Times (Electronic ed.) 28 Aug. 9 Supply-side economic measures from the Reagan and Thatcher eras have created not so much a trickle-down but ‘trickle-up’ effect.
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- waterwort
- waterwough
- waterwrack
- watery
- watery camp
- watery death
- watery eye
- watery fate
- watery fusion
- watery grave
- watery head
- watery humour
- watery itch
- watery meteors
- watery mouth
- watery prismoid
- watery tomb
- watery triplicity
- watery waste
- watery-blue
- watery-eyed
- watery-green
- wateryblue
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