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The plant Smilax china, a liana of much of eastern Asia.
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A plant or flower of the repeat-blooming Chinese rose species Rosa chinensis.
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A plant or flower of one of the class of hybrids developed from Rosa chinensis.
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Synonym of elderflower rose, Rosa cymosa.
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Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, native to east Asia.
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Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
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He set the table with china, cloth napkins, and crystal stemware.
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Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
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Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.
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Tea from China, varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
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(games) A glazed china marble.
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A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
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A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.
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(by extension) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.
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(by extension) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell.
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A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
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John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college. Trust is important between friends. I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.
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An associate who provides assistance.
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The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
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A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
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a friend of a friend; I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know him.
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A person who backs or supports something.
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I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
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An object or idea that can be used for good.
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Wiktionary is your friend.
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(used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
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You’d better watch it, friend.
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A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
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A spring-loaded camming device.
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A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
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A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
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Friends agree best at a distance.
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A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc.
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(usually uncountable) A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.
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Tableware and toilets are both made of porcelain.
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(now usually plural) An object made of porcelain, art objects or items of tableware.
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The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains.
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(often capitalized) A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers.
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Small beads made from polished shells, especially white ones, formerly used as money and jewelry by certain Native American peoples.
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A string of such beads.
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Money.
Examples of china in a Sentence
A matching china cabinet held fine china, crystal and silverware.
It was, however, in the reigns of Severus and his immediate successors that Roman intercourse with India was at its height, and from the writings of Pausanias (c. 174) it appears that direct communication between Rome and China had already taken place.
The earliest Arabian traveller whose observations have come down to us is the merchant Sulaiman, who embarked in the Persian Gulf and made several voyages to India and China, in the middle of the 9th century.
Masudi, a great traveller who knew from personal experience all the countries between Spain and China, described the plains, mountains and seas, the dynasties and peoples, in his Meadows of Gold, an abstract made by himself of his larger work News of the Time.
The emperor Justinian (483-565), in whose reign the greatness of the Eastern empire culminated, sent two Nestorian monks to China, who returned with eggs of the silkworm concealed in a hollow cane, and thus silk manufactures were established in the Peloponnesus and the Greek islands.
Ibn Batuta made the voyage through the Malay Archipelago to China, and on his return he proceeded from Malabar to Bagdad and Damascus, ultimately reaching Fez, the capital of his native country, in November 1349.
Among them was Nicolo Conti, who passed through Persia, sailed along the coast of Malabar, visited Sumatra, Java and the south of China, returned by the Red sea, and got home to Venice in 1444 after an absence of twenty-five years.
In Further India and the Malay Archipelago the Portuguese acquired predominating influence at sea, establishing factories on the Malabar coast, in the Persian Gulf, at Malacca, and in the Spice Islands, and extending their commercial enterprises from the Red sea to China.
He started in 1603, and, after traversing' the least-known parts of Central Asia, he reached the confines of China.
There is a trade with China, valued at less than half a million sterling annually.
Among these is the Heng-shan, one of the Wu-yo or five sacred mountains of China, upon which the celebrated tablet of Yu was placed.
Next after cottons come woollens, silk, cloth, chemicals, machinery, paper, furniture, hats, cement, leather, glass and china and other products.
The nucleus of the invading horde was a small pastoral tribe in Mongolia, the chief of which, known subsequently to Europe as Jenghiz Khan, became a mighty conqueror and created a vast empire stretching from China, across northern and central Asia, to the shores of the Baltic and the valley of the Danube - a heterogeneous state containing many nationalities held together by purely administrative ties and by an enormous military force.
A ship of an English squadron which was trying First to reach China by the North-East passage, entered the relations northern Dvina, and her captain, Richard Chancellor, with journeyed to Moscow in quest of opportunities for trade.
By the treaty of Aigun (May 28, 1858), and without any military operations, the cession of a great part of the basin of the Amur was obtained from China.
In Asia, after the accession of Nicholas II., the expansion of Russia, following the line of least resistance and stimulated by the construction of the Trans-Siberian railway, took the direction of northern China and the effete little kingdom of Korea.
Much tobacco of excellent quality, principally for consumption in Persia, is also grown (especially in Fessa, Darab and Jahrom) and a considerable quantity of opium, much of it for export to China, is produced.
In proportion to its population China has the least railway development of any of the great countries of the world; the probability that its present commercial awakening will extend seems large, and in that case it will need a vast increase in its interior communications.
The town is celebrated for its manufacture of agate and carnelian ornaments, of reputation principally in China.
The cultivated plants of China are, with a few exceptions, the same as those of India.
The china aster is now one of the most popular of summer and fall plants.
The China sorts are much larger.
Odoric set out on his travels about 1318, and his journeys embraced parts of India, the Malay Archipelago, China and even Tibet, where he was the first European to enter Lhasa, not yet a forbidden city.
Their missionaries were received at the court of Akbar, and Benedict Goes, a native of the Azores, was despatched on a journey overland from Agra to China.
In 1583 Jan Hugen van Linschoten made a voyage to India with a Portuguese fleet, and his full and graphic descriptions of India, Africa, China and the Malay Archipelago must have been of no small use to his countrymen in their distant voyages.
The result was a more accurate map of China than existed, at that time, of any country in Europe.
The next journey was that of Fathers Grueber and Dorville about 1660, who succeeded in passing from China, through Tibet, into India.
He went thence to China, returned to Lhasa, and was in India in time to be an eye-witness of the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1737.
The fossil egg of a struthious bird, Struthiolithus, has been found near Cherson, south Russia, and in north China.
The Palaearctic Subregion is, broadly speaking, Europe and Asia, with the exception of India and China.
The Himalo-Chinese or Transgangetic province shows the characteristics of its avifauna also far away to the eastward in Formosa, Hainan and Cochin China, and again in a lesser degree to the southward in the mountains of Malacca and Sumatra.
The Ahoms, together with the Shans of Burma and Eastern China and the Siamese, were members of the Tai race.
Another event of1884-1885was the going forth to China of " The Cambridge Seven," in connexion with the China Inland Mission.
The Central African Mission (1858), indeed, is not for the most part manned by graduates, though it is led by them; but the Cambridge Mission at Delhi (1878), the Oxford Mission at Calcutta (1880), and the Dublin Missions in Chota Nagpur (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1891) and the Fuh-Kien Province of China (Church Missionary Society, 1887) consist of university men.
Of these the China Inland Mission is the largest and most influential; and while it has sent forth many of this class, it has also enrolled not a few men and women of considerable wealth, education and social status.
They are especially valuable in Mahommedan countries, where open preaching is difficult and sometimes impossible, and also in works of mercy among barbarous tribes; while in China, which comes under neither of these two categories, they have been largely developed.
The Church Missionary Society, besides relying on the above-named Zenana Bible and Medical Mission and Church of England Zenana Missionary Society for women's work at several of its stations in India and China, sent out 500 single women in the fifteen years ending 1900; and the non-denominational missions above referred to have (including wives) more women than men engaged in their work - especially the China Inland Mission, which has sent out several hundreds to China.
The Australian Presbyterians have important agencies in the South Seas and in Korea, the Australian Baptists in Bengal, the Canadians of various denominations in the Far North-West of the Dominion, and in India and China.
The Basel Society, with its famous seminary at Basel, which formerly supplied many able German missionaries to the Church Missionary Society, has extensive work in India, West Africa and South China.
The old Swedish and Norwegian missionary societies work in South Africa, Madagascar and India; but large numbers of Scandinavians have been stirred up in missionary zeal, and have gone out to China in connexion with the China Inland Mission; several were massacred in the Boxer outbreaks.
International Missionary Alliance (1887), which has sent many missionaries to India and China.
Mott succeeded in forming students' associations in universities and colleges in several European countries, as well as in Turkey in Asia, Syria, India, Ceylon, China, Japan and Australia; and all these associations, over 150 in number, are now linked together in a great International Student Federation.
The story of modern missions in China begins with Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society, who reached Canton in 1807, and not being allowed to reside in China entered the service of the East India Company.
Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission, and James Gilmour, the apostle of Mongolia, are pre-eminent.
In 1857 there were only about 400 baptized Protestant Christians in the whole of China.
Out of the agony, however, a new China was born.
The growing power of Japan, seen in her wars with China and Russia, and the impotence of the Boxers against the European allies, made all classes in China realize their comparative impotence, and the central government began a series of reforms, reorganizing the military, educational, fiscal and political systems on Western lines.
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge, under the inspiration of Lord William Cecil, were interesting themselves in 1910 in a scheme for establishing a Christian university in China.
One of Morrison's contemporaries hoped that after a century of mission work there might possibly be 2000 Christians in China.
The total number of Protestant missionaries (including wives) in China in 1910 was 4175, one to about IIoo sq.