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chin strap |
chin up |
chin-up |
chin-wag |
chin-wagging |
china
| china aster
| china cabinet
| china clay
| china closet
| china fleece vine
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun china has 4 senses
- china(n = noun.location) cathay, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world; Array has parts: chinese wall, great wall, great wall of china, manchuria, beijing, capital of red china, peiping, peking, chongqing, chungking, canton, guangzhou, kuangchou, kwangchow, gansu, gansu province, kansu, hebei, hebei province, hopeh, hopei, hunan, hunan province, sichuan, szechuan, szechwan, szechwan province, yunnan, yunnan province, luda, luta, dairen, dalian, talien, loyang, luoyang, lushun, port arthur, hangchow, hangzhou, nan-chang, nanchang, nan-ning, nanning, nanjing, nanking, shanghai, fengtien, moukden, mukden, shenyang, taiyuan, tangshan, t'ien-ching, tianjin, tientsin, grand canal, wuhan, changan, hsian, sian, singan, xian, sinkiang, xinjiang, xinjiang uighur autonomous region, inner mongolia, nei monggol, hong kong, gobi, gobi desert, taklamakan desert, taklimakan desert, amur, amur river, heilong, heilong jiang, bo hai, po hai, brahmaputra, brahmaputra river, gan jiang, kan river, huang he, hwang ho, yellow river, kuenlun, kuenlun mountains, kunlan shan, kunlun, kunlun mountains, liaodong bandao, liaodong peninsula, mekong, mekong river, nan ling, pamir mountains, the pamirs, poyang, tien shan, tyan shan, chang, chang jiang, changjiang, yangtze, yangtze kiang, yangtze river, canton river, chu kiang, pearl river, zhu jiang
- china(n = noun.artifact) Array - high quality porcelain originally made only in China; Array has particulars: bone china, crackle, crackle china, crackleware
- china(n = noun.location) nationalist china, republic of china, taiwan - a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong; Array has parts: capital of taiwan, taipeh, taipei, taichung
- china(n = noun.artifact) chinaware - dishware made of high quality porcelain; Array is a kind of crockery, dishware
is a kind of asian country, asian nation
is a part of asia
is a kind of porcelain
is a kind of island
is a part of south china sea
has particulars: willow-pattern, willowware
CIDE DICTIONARY
china, n.
- A country in Eastern Asia. [1913 Webster]
- China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
china, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a kind of fine white or translucent ceramic ware, porcelain, etc.
2 things made from ceramic, esp. household tableware.
3 rhymingsl. one's 'mate', i.e. husband or wife (short for china plate).
--adj. made of china.
--n.
1 a kind of fine white or translucent ceramic ware, porcelain, etc.
2 things made from ceramic, esp. household tableware.
3 rhymingsl. one's 'mate', i.e. husband or wife (short for china plate).
--adj. made of china.
Idiom
china clay kaolin. China tea smoke-cured tea from a small-leaved tea plant grown in China.
Etymology
orig. China ware (from China in Asia): name f. Pers. chini
THESAURUS
china
adobe, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, bubble, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, clay, crock, crockery, eggshell, enamel, enamelware, firebrick, glass, glass house, house of cards, ice, jug, matchwood, old paper, parchment, piecrust, porcelain, pot, pottery, refractory, tile, tiling, urn, vaseROGET THESAURUS
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Calefaction
N calefaction, increase of temperature, heating, calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction, melting, fusion, liquefaction, burning, ambustion, combustion, incension, accension, concremation, cremation, scorification, cautery, cauterization, ustulation, calcination, cracking, refining, incineration, cineration, carbonization, cupellation, ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, empyrosis, incendiarism, arson, auto dafe, boiling, coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction, ebullioscope, geyser, distillation (vaporization), furnace, blanket, flannel, fur, wadding, clothing, still, refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower, match, incendiary, petroleuse, cauterizer, caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa, acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia, catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium, sunstroke, coup de soleil, insolation, pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china, earthenware, stoneware, pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker, cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot, slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil, gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel), wax, paraffin, residue, tar, inflammability, combustibility, diathermancy, transcalency, conduction, convection, radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity, conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion, heated, molten, sodden, r_echauff_e, heating, adust, inflammable, combustible, diathermal, diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive.Sculpture
N sculpture, insculpture, carving, statuary, high relief, low relief, bas relief, relief, relieve, bassorilievo, altorilievo, mezzorilievo, intaglio, anaglyph, medal, medallion, cameo, marble, bronze, terra cotta, papier-mache, ceramic ware, pottery, porcelain, china, earthenware, cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon, satsuma, statue, cast, glyptotheca, sculptured, v, in relief, anaglyptic, ceroplastic, ceramic, parian, marble, xanthian.
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