{
    "term": "data",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "facts or information, especially when examined and used to find out things or to make decisions",
            "sensetop": "data on somethingdata for something",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We **collected** publicly available **data** over a 10-day period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to gather/obtain data"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What methods are you using to interpret the data?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Researchers **analysed the data** on 2 515 patient visits at the Children's Hospital.",
                    "contextForm": "data on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Table 2 provides data for south-east Nebraska.",
                    "contextForm": "data for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our model is based on **experimental data**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "published/unpublished data"
                },
                {
                    "text": "scientific/historical/clinical data"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is essential to protect your personal data."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**raw data** *(= that has not been analysed)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Multiple **data collection** methods were used."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These data show that most cancers are detected as a result of clinical follow-up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Although we were using the same set of data, we obtained different results."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Data about patients is only released with their permission."
                },
                {
                    "text": "October data indicates that many job opportunities still exist."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My aim is to synthesize data from all the surveys."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One vital item of data was missing from the table."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The data derived from this project has increased our knowledge of how genes work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government departments refused to provide the data that we required."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The next step is to feed in all this data."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is no hard data to support these theories."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are not allowed to hold data on people's private finances."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This data reflects the magnitude of the problem."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This theory seems to fit the available data."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have found some very interesting things in the data."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have no data for southern Mexico."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Weather conditions have made accurate data collection difficult."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These data were collected over a period of several months."
                },
                {
                    "text": "data on the effects of pollution"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The data was collected from 67 countries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is very little reliable data available."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Scientific research"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["accurate", "reliable", "comprehensive"],
                "… of data": ["item", "piece", "mass"],
                "verb + data": ["acquire", "amass", "capture"],
                "data + verb": [
                    "be derived from something",
                    "illustrate something",
                    "indicate something"
                ],
                "data + noun": ["acquisition", "capture", "collection"],
                "preposition": ["in the data", "data  about", "data  for"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the acquisition, handling, storage, etc. of data",
                    "a source of data"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "information that is stored by a computer",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All this data is stored on hundreds of servers in San Francisco."
                },
                {
                    "text": "data storage/transfer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The computer can manipulate massive amounts of data."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our capacity to generate and transmit data has grown exponentially."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a danger that hackers may be able to access the data."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Computers"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["accurate", "reliable", "comprehensive"],
                "… of data": ["item", "piece", "mass"],
                "verb + data": ["acquire", "amass", "capture"],
                "data + verb": [
                    "be derived from something",
                    "illustrate something",
                    "indicate something"
                ],
                "data + noun": ["acquisition", "capture", "collection"],
                "preposition": ["in the data", "data  about", "data  for"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the acquisition, handling, storage, etc. of data",
                    "a source of data"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person, book, etc. that can give you a lot of information on a particular subject",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This book is a mine of information on the Romans."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The internet can be a mine of information."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The questionnaire results proved to be a rich mine of empirical data."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdeɪtə//ˈdɑːtə/",
                "audio": "da/data/data__gb_5.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdeɪtə//ˈdætə/",
                "audio": "da/data/data__us_3_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (as a term in philosophy): from Latin, plural of datum."
}