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japan

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Adjective, Noun, Verb (usu participle)

HYPHEN

ja=pan

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun japan has 4 senses

japan(n = noun.location) japanese archipelago, japanese islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean; Array

has parts: ezo, hokkaido, yezo, hondo, honshu, kyushu, shikoku, osaka bay

is a kind of archipelago

is a part of pacific, pacific ocean

japan(n = noun.location) nihon, nippon - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building; Array

has parts: kammon strait bridge, asahikawa, capital of japan, edo, japanese capital, tokio, tokyo, yeddo, yedo, nagano, nagoya, omiya, osaka, yokohama, naha city, ryukyu islands, kyoto, sapporo, kitakyushu, fukuoka, nagasaki, toyohashi, toyonaki, toyota, asama, mount asama, volcano islands, iwo jima, fuji, fuji-san, fujinoyama, fujiyama, mount fuji

is a kind of asian country, asian nation

is a part of asia

japan(n = noun.artifact) Array - lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer; Array

is a kind of

lacquerware

Derived form verb japan₁

japan(n = noun.artifact) Array - lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient; Array

is a kind of

lacquer

Derived form verb japan₁

Verb japan has 1 sense

japan(v = verb.creation) Array - coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan; Array

is one way to

lacquer

Derived forms noun japan₄, noun japan₃

Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY

japan, n. [From Japan, the country.].

Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning. [1913 Webster]

japan, a.

Of or pertaining to Japan, or to the lacquered work of that country; as, Japan ware. [1913 Webster]

Japan allspice (Bot.), a spiny shrub from Japan (Chimonanthus fragrans), related to the Carolina allspice. -- Japan black (Chem.), a quickly drying black lacquer or varnish, consisting essentially of asphaltum dissolved in naphtha or turpentine, and used for coating ironwork; -- called also Brunswick black, Japan lacquer, or simply Japan. -- Japan camphor, ordinary camphor brought from China or Japan, as distinguished from the rare variety called borneol or Borneo camphor. -- Japan clover, or Japan pea (Bot.), a cloverlike plant (Lespedeza striata) from Eastern Asia, useful for fodder, first noticed in the Southern United States about 1860, but now become very common. During the Civil War it was called variously Yankee clover and Rebel clover. -- Japan earth. See Catechu. -- Japan ink, a kind of writing ink, of a deep, glossy black when dry. -- Japan varnish, a varnish prepared from the milky juice of the Rhus vernix, a small Japanese tree related to the poison sumac.

japan, v. t.

To cover with a coat of hard, brilliant varnish, in the manner of the Japanese; to lacquer. [1913 Webster]
To give a glossy black to, as shoes. Gay. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

japan, n. & v.
--n.
1 a hard usu. black varnish, esp. of a kind brought orig. from Japan.
2 work in a Japanese style.
--v.tr. (japanned, japanning)
1 varnish with japan.
2 make black and glossy as with japan.

Etymology

Japan in E. Asia

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japan

Ornament

VB ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp, ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize, smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain, garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank, trick out, fig out, deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array, begawd, titivate, dress, dress up, spangle, bespangle, powder, embroider, work, chase, emboss, fret, emblazon, illuminate, illustrate, become.

Covering

VB cover, superpose, superimpose, overlay, overspread, wrap, encase, incase, face, case, veneer, pave, paper, tip, cap, bind, bulkhead, bulkhead in, clapboard, coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar, wash, besmear, bedaub, anoint, do over, gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash, parget, lay it on thick, overlie, overarch, endome, conceal, anodize, galvanize.

Resin

N resin, rosin, gum, lac, sealing wax, amber, ambergris, bitumen, pitch, tar, asphalt, asphaltum, camphor, varnish, copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan, artificial resin, polymer, ion-exchange resin, cation-exchange resin, anion exchange resin, water softener, Amberlite, Dowex, Diaion, resiny, resinous, bituminous, pitchy, tarry, asphaltic, asphaltite.

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