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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 porcelain in a Sentence
The Derby porcelain or china manufactory was started about 1750.
The porcelain clock on the wall proclaimed the time as ten minutes until twelve, but it didn't seem that late.
Its skin was porcelain pale, as if it never saw sunlight.
She turned the porcelain knob and pushed the door open.
This is undoubtedly the finest jewelled porcelain in Japan; the best examples leave nothing to be desired The factorys period of excellence began about the year I 680, ant culminated at the close of the 18th century.
Bianca's new world was tiny and white, the porcelain toilet the only chair and the tub the only place long enough for her to lie down.
There are manufactures of paper, hats, leather, ropes, porcelain, majolica, soap, spirits, and ornaments made of palm leaves and grasses.
The space a must allow for the inclusion of a copper spiral if the substance contains nitrogen, and a silver spiral if halogens be present, for otherwise nitrogen oxides and the halogens may be condensed in the absorption apparatus; b contains copper oxide; c is a space for the insertion of a porcelain or platinum boat containing a weighed quantity of the substance; d is a copper spiral.
Though her hair was pink, there was no mistaking the delicate facial features, porcelain skin and large eyes of the woman who tormented him his entire life then dumped the underworld on him.
Sodium uranate, Na2U207, is used as a pigment for painting on glass and porcelain under the name of uranium yellow.
Boron and iodine do not combine directly, but gaseous hydriodic acid reacts with amorphous boron to form the iodide, BI 31 which can also be obtained by passing boron chloride and hydriodic acid through a red-hot porcelain tube.
The principal industries are wool and cotton spinning, and the manufacture of porcelain, earthenware, boots, soap, oil, sparkling wines and beer.
It may be diminished by introducing clippings of platinum foil, pieces of porcelain, glass beads or garnets into the liquid.
These countries all received Buddhism from India, and a large proportion of the porcelain and earthenware articles imported from China and Japan into Europe consists of innumerable forms of censers.
In its simplest form the apparatus consists of a straight tube, made of glass, porcelain or iron according to the temperature required and the nature of the reacting substances, heated in an ordinary combustion furnace, the mixture entering at one end and the vapours being condensed at the other.
In 1520 a potter named Gorodayu Goshonzui (known to posterity as Shonzui) made his way to Fuchow and thence to King-te-chen, where, after five years study, he acquired the art of manufacturing porcelain, as distinguished from pottery, together with the art of applying decoration in blue under the glaze.
There are three chief varieties of Hizen ware, namely, (1) the enamelled porcelain of Aritathe old Japan of European collectors; (2) the enamelled porcelain of Nabeshima; and Hizen (3) the blue and white, or plain white, porcelain of Hirado.
Seto, in fact, acquired such a widespread reputation for its ceramic productions that the term seto-mono (Seto article) came to be used generally for all pottery and porcelain, just as China is in the West.
Seto has now ceased to be a pottery-producing centre, and has become the chief porcelain manufactory of Japan.
In short, the artistic output of Chinese kilns in their palmiest days was, not faience or pottery,, but porcelain, whether of soft or hard paste.
This is done by mounting the working wire on a metal plate made of the same metal as the working wire itself; thus if the working wire is of platinoid it must be mounted on a platinoid bar, the supports which carry the ends of the working wire being insulated from this bar by being bushed with ivory or porcelain.
In this way is produced the crystalline, devitrified material, known as Reaumur's porcelain.
The material and technique suggest a close relationship to porcelain.
Coloured and ornamental glass held among them much the same place for table services, vessels for toilet use and the like, as that held among us by porcelain.
They also employed silver freely for decorative purposes, whereas we rarely find it thus used on old Japan porcelain.
Indeed, of this porcelain it may be said that, from the monster pieces of blue-and-white manufactured at Setovases six feet high and garden pillar-lamps half as tall again do not dismay the BishU ceramistto tiny coffee-cups decorated in Tokyo, with theil delicate miniatures of birds, flowers, insects, fishes and so forth, everything indicates the death of the old severe aestheticism.
Tc such a depth of debasement had the ceramic art fallen in Owari, that before the happy renaissance of the past ten years, Nagoya discredited itself by employing porcelain as a base for cloisonn enamelling.
Awaji-yaki, or Mimpei-yaki as it is often called, is generally porcelain, but we occasionally find specimens which may readily be mistaken for Awata faience.
He took for his models the raku faience of KiOto, the masterpieces of Ninsei and Kenzan, the rococc wares of Korea, the enamelled porcelain of China, and the blue-andwhite ware of Delft.
The potters of the Middle Kingdom, from the early eras of the Ming dynasty down to the latest years of the 18th century, stood absolutely without rivals as makers of porcelain.
The Imari ware, even though its thick biscuit and generally ungraceful shapes be omitted from the account, shows no enamels that can rival the exquisitely soft, broken tints of the famille rose; and the Kakiemon porcelain, for all its rich though chaste contrasts, lacks the delicate transmitted tints of the shell-like kwan-yao.
So, too, the blue-and-white porcelain of Hirado, though assisted by exceptional tenderness of sous-pdte color, by milk-white glaze, by great beauty of decorative design, and often by an admirable use of the modelling or graving tool, represents a ceramic achievement palpably below the soft paste kai-pien-yao of King-te-chen.
In the eyes of a Chinese connoisseur, no blue-and-white porcelain worthy of consideration exists, or ever has existed, except the kai-pien-yao, with its imponderable pdle, its wax-like surface, and its rich, glowing blue, entirely free from superficiality or garishness and broken into a thousand tints by the microscopic crackle of the glaze.
Seifu YOhei, however, has the special faculty of manufacturing monochromatic and jewelled porcelain and faience, which differ essentially from the traditional Kioto types, their models being taken directly from China.
He was succeeded by Tozawa Benshi, an old man of over seventy in 1909, who, using clay from Owari or Hizen, has turned out many porcelain statuettes of great beauty.
Every year large quantities of porcelain and faience are sent from the provinces to the capital to receive surface decoration, and in wealth of design as well as carefulness of execution the results are praiseworthy.
The glossy surface of a porcelain glaze is ill fitted for rendering artistic effects with ordinary colors.
In other respects the Hirado factories do not produce wares nearly so beautiful as those manufactured there between 1759 and 1840, when the Hirado-yakz stood at the head of all Japanese porcelain on account of its pure, close-grained pate, its lustrous milk-white glaze, and the soft clear blue of its carefully executed decoration.
On a far higher level stood egg-shell porcelain, remarkable examples of which were sent from Seto to the KjOto industrial exhibition of 1895.
The finest specimens of this porcelain had incised decoration, sparingly employed but adding much to the beauty of the piece.
In subsequent eras the potters of King-te-chen did not fail to continue this remarkable manufacture, but its only Japanese representative was a porcelain distinctly inferior In more than one respect, namely, the egg-shell utensils of Hizen and Hirado, some of which had finely woven basket-cases to protect their extreme fragility.
They still manufacture quantities of tea and coffee sets, and dinner or dessert services of red-and-gold porcelain for foreign markets; but about 1885 some of them made zealous and patient efforts to revert to the processes that won so much fame for the old Kutaniyaki, with its grand combinations of rich, lustrous, soft-toned glazes.
It is apparent that a vitrified enamel may be made to perform, in part at any rate, the function of a porcelain glaze.
But to spread and fix the enamel so that neither at the rim nor in the interior shall there be any break of continuity, or any indication that the base is copper, not porcelain, demands quite exceptional skill.
The acid treatment is generally carried out in cast iron pots; platinum vessels used to be employed, while porcelain vessels are only used for small operations, e.g.
The tank is of porcelain or glazed earthenware, the electrodes for impure solutions are z in.
For higher temperatures the bulb of the vapour density tube is made of porcelain or platinum, and is heated in a gas furnace.
The vessel, however, which contains this mixture has to be of earthenware, porcelain or enamelled iron on account of the free acid present; the gas must be washed after purification to remove traces of hydrochloric acid, and care must be taken to prevent the complete neutralization of the acid by the ammonia present in the gas.
Brick, porcelain and glassworks employ large numbers of the inhabitants.
Mehun-sur-Yevre (pop. 5227), a town with an active manufacture of porcelain, has a Romanesque church and a château of the 14th century.