cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lüliang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lüʹlyängʹ
lo͞oʹlyängʹ
Forms: form: Luliang
form: Lvliang
form: Lyuliang
Etymology: From Mandarin 呂梁 (Lǚliáng).
Senses: examples: text: The annual losses of topsoil are now over 10,000 tons per km² in Yulin and Yan’an prefectures in Shaanxi and in Lüliang and Xinxian prefectures in Shanxi, and they average 4,000-5,000 tons per km² a year throughout most of the region, whose most eroded parts are now just a lifeless maze of deeply cut narrow and steep-sided gullies (Figure 8).
ref: 1984, Vaclav Smil, The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:
text: As stated above, Lüliang prefecture in Shanxi province is the region where the first wasteland auctions were organized in the early 1980s
ref: 2004, Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129:
text: Ten counties around Lüliang in Shanxi have been designated national-level or county-level poverty-stricken counties. In all of them, coal accounts for 70-75 percent of government revenues.¹⁹ According to SAWS statistics, between 2003 and 2006 there were 15 mine accidents, which killed 155 people, in Lüliang.
ref: 2010, Kolya Abramsky, editor, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World, AK Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 411–412:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
examples: text: My grandmother did not hear from her beloved daughters again for a long time. Their communications stopped when the Japanese attacked Zhaocheng in April 1938 and their formation had to retreat to Fenxi county, in the Lüliang mountains.
ref: 2000, Aiping Mu, Vermilion Gate, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81:
text: An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and nine newborns out of a hundred are defective births.
ref: 2009, Zhang Yulin, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 165:
glosses: A mountain range in Shanxi, China.
Laye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Layes
Etymology: Variant of Lee.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Layes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laye
Lemps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lemp
Marien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mariens
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch, German and French Marien.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mandich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mandiches
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Mandić, metronymic from Manda, short form of the personal name Mandalena, from Magdalena. See Maudlin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Mandiches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mandich
McMurry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McMurrys
Etymology: Variant of McMurray.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Lishi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈli(ˈ)ʃi/
Forms: form: Li-shih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 離石 /离石 (Líshí).
Senses: examples: text: Geomorphologic Features
The Lüliang region is located in the western Shanxi Province. Geologist Professor Liu Dongsheng first identified the section drawing of the Lishi Loess in Wangjiagou, Lishi District, LüliangCity.
ref: 2016, Fang Wang, “Geo-Architecture Blending into Nature”, in Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context, volume 3, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 133:
text: Wu said she was determined to fight the decision. On September 6 she mailed documents for a lawsuit of the public security authorities in both Jiaocheng county and Luliang city to a local court in the Lishi district of Luliang.
ref: 2017 September 13, Xinqi Su, Viola Zhou, “One of China’s ‘feminist five’ gender equality activists banned from leaving country for decade”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2017:
text: Lishi District 离石区 in Lüliang and Xiaodian District 小店区 in Taiyuan had a strikingly high percentage of young population, around 60 percent.
ref: 2018, Fenggang Yang, “North China [华北地区]”, in Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90, column 1:
english: 华北地区
translation: 华北地区
glosses: A district of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Liulin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liu-lin
Etymology: From Mandarin 柳林 (Liǔlín).
Senses: examples: text: Liulin County, Shansi, has a population of 183,000 and an area of 1.92 million mou, of which more than 57,700 mou is cultivated land subject to serious water loss and soil erosion.
ref: 1973 November 21 [1973 November 18], “SHANSI COUNTY GRAIN PRODUCTION”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 225, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page F 7:
text: In 2009, of the 24 large coal mines in Liulin County, where Liansheng Group is headquartered, Liansheng controlled about a third.
ref: 2013 December 18, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “A Chinese Coal Baron Tumbles into Debt”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2023, Sinosphere:
glosses: A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Zhongyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔŋˈjæŋ/
enpr: jo͝ongʹyängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中陽 /中阳 (Zhōngyáng).
Senses: examples: text: The Kings of Ch'in and Chao met at Chung-yang 中陽.³⁶⁸
ref: 1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Ch'ien, “The Ch'in, Basic Annals Five”, in William Nienhauser, editor, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume 1, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:
text: An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and nine newborns out of a hundred are defective births.
ref: 2009, Zhang Yulin, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 165:
text: Zhongyang County, affiliated to Lvliang City of Shanxi Province administratively, is located at the western side of the middle range of Lvliang Mountain in the west of Shanxi Province.
ref: 2009, Wang Jinming, Li Guangjie, editors, Zhongyang Paper-cutting, Shanxi People's Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 002:
text: The man, Liu Renwang, was accused of shooting to death a village official in Shanxi Province in 2008. He says the drawings show how the local police went about extracting a confession from him for a crime he did not commit.[…]
He said the officers who tortured him were from the Zhongyang County Public Security Bureau. A woman who answered the phone at the bureau on Monday afternoon said she did not know about the case and declined to comment.
Mr. Liu said that he had asked several painters in Zhongyang to illustrate his experiences but that they all turned him down for fear of retaliation by the police.
ref: 2015 August 10, Vanessa Piao, Austin Ramzy, “Drawings of Police Torture Seize China’s Attention”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2015, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Shilou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石樓 /石楼.
Senses: examples: text: Similar spoons with pendants have been excavated from the graves of China's northern pastoral neighbors west of the Taihang Mountains at Chujiayu, Shilou county, Shanxi Province.
ref: 2002, Emma C. Bunker, “Catalogue”, in Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192, column 2:
text: These dwellings are made by digging out a living area from the top of a thick loess deposit. For the Longshan period, such dwellings have been discovered at Chagou in Shilou County, Shanxi, and Zhaojialai in Wugong County, Shaanxi Province, as well as at Taosi.[…]
Crocodile-shaped gong vessel. Shilou, Luliang County, Shanxi Province. Shang dynasty. Shanxi Provincial Museum.[…]
Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo Shanxi gongzuodui 中国社会科学院考古研究所山西工作队 (1985), "Shanxi Shilou Chagou yuanshi wenhua yicun 山西石楼岔沟原始文化遗存 (The primitive cultural remains at the Chagou site in Shilou, Shanxi),” Kaogu xuebao 考古学报, no. 2;[…]
ref: 2005, Kwang-chih Chang, The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 91, 171, 319:
glosses: A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Jiaokou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 交口 (Jiāokǒu).
Senses: examples: text: Jiaokou County adopted a new process for refining sulfur, which raised the sulfur recovery rate from 40% to 80%, and the waste gas discharge met the State set standards.
ref: 2006, “Technical Progress of TVEs”, in He Kang [何康], editor, China's Township and Village Enterprises [中国的乡镇企业], 1st edition, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 233–234:
english: 中国的乡镇企业
translation: 中国的乡镇企业
text: An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and nine newborns out of a hundred are defective births.
ref: 2009, Zhang Yulin, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 165:
text: The company planned to export the bauxite to its alumina refinery in Jiaokou, Shanxi Province, China (CRU Alumina Monitor, 2011g).
ref: 2011, Minerals Yearbook, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10.4:
text: In the 2000s, in Jiaokou County (Shanxi) a local mine owner provided the village with a new primary school building, and paid the salaries of local teachers and indeed of the village cadres (Nandu zhoukan 2009c).
ref: 2012, Tim Wright, “The rural coal mines and their owners: social costs and benefits”, in The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:
text: In April 2015, authorities in Huilong village, Jiaokou county, Luliang municipality, Shanxi province, detained more than 10 people who had joined a multi-day protest of several hundred people demonstrating against pollution linked to an aluminum plant.
ref: 2015, “Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2015”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China, →ISBN, page 216:
text: Red mud is also what prompted the Chinese authorities to order the closure of Xinfa Group’s Jiaokou alumina refinery in Shanxi.
ref: 2019 May 16, Andy Home, “Chinese outages a reminder of aluminum's dirty secret: Andy Home”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 16 May 2019:
glosses: A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Oday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Odays
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عُدَي (ʕuday).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Oday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Odays
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Ó Deaghaidh.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Xiaoyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyouʹyēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孝義 /孝义 (Xiàoyì).
Senses: examples: text: But amongst our party was an official who had been magistrate at Hsiaoyi, a day's journey further north in the mountains, who affirmed that compared to the latter district, Chenan was a garden; for Hsiaoyi, it seems, has no land tax receipts, and practically no population.[…]
A road runs due south from Hsian, the provincial capital, through the Ch’inling Shan via Hsiaoyi and Chenan to Hsingan on the Han River, being the most direct route between these two important cities, but it is so rough as to be little used.
ref: [1921, Eric Teichman, “From T’ungkuan on the Yellow River Across the Eastern Ch’inling Shan to Hsingan on the Han River”, in Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:
text: After the re-capture of Fenyang and Shanchuantseng by the Government troops in Shansi Province, the Communists have retreated to Hsiaoyi. Under the personal direction of the Communist leader, Mao Tze-tung, the Communists are engaged in a serious fight with the Shansi troops near Hsiaoyi, reported Shun Pao March 6.
ref: [1936 March 14, “Shansi Troops Take Offensive Against Reds on All Fronts”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 76, number 2, →OCLC, page 49, column 2:
text: Investigations into the gas explosions at the Mengnanzhuang coal mine in Xiaoyi city, Shanxi province, which killed seventy-two miners on 22 March 2003; at the Baixing mine in Jixi city, Heilongjiang province, which killed thirty-seven miners on 23 February 2004; and at the Xiangyuangou mine in Jiaocheng county, Shanxi province, which killed twenty-nine miners on 9 March 2005, revealed four common denominators.
ref: 2010, Kolya Abramsky, editor, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World, AK Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 418:
text: Jointly held by Lvliang government and CEIS, the 3rd Belt and Road Seminar on Green Development of Coal Coking Industry kicked off on Saturday in Xiaoyi, a county-level city of Lvliang, north China’s Shanxi province.
ref: 2020 October 20, Xinhua Silk Road, “Xinhua Silk Road: Green transformation vital for coal coking dev. and B&R energy cooperation”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2023:
glosses: A county-level city of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Fenyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fǔnʹyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 汾陽 /汾阳 (Fényáng).
Senses: examples: text: The walled city of Fenyang, with a population of over 20,000, was a sizable objective. It was the most important Japanese base in this area outside of the provincial capital of Taiyuan itself, and a principal concentration point for the start of large-scale mopping-up operations.
ref: 1945, Harrison Forman, Report from Red China, New York: Book Find Club, →OCLC, →OL, page 229:
text: Hsiung-lien had borrowed 550 taels from Chang Luan and left the original group of four in Fenyang, Shansi, to proceed to Peking to visit his aged mother.
ref: 1977, Preston M. Torbert, The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 159:
text: Charting modern China's breakneck pace is a staple of Jia Zhangke's cinema. In his latest film, the Fenyang-born director once again delves into the social and economic upheavals that have led his country to raise and flatten mountains – real or imaginary – as though they were toys.
ref: 2015 December 23, Benjamin Dodman, “Film review: ‘Mountains May Depart’ probes China’s latest leap forward”, in France 24, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2015:
text: The Brazilian director Walter Salles, whose work has somewhat similar themes to Mr. Jia’s, has produced an admiring documentary portrait of the filmmaker, “Jia Zhangke, a Guy From Fenyang,” shot a few years back when Mr. Jia was preparing “A Touch of Sin” for release in China, which was subsequently denied. It begins with Mr. Jia revisiting his hometown, Fenyang, in the Shanxi province of northern China, and looking at the now-ruined locations of his early films.
ref: 2016 May 26, Glenn Kenny, “Review: ‘Jia Zhangke, a Guy From Fenyang,’ a Portrait of a Visionary Filmmaker”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 May 2016, Movies:
glosses: A county-level city of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Jiaocheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chiao-ch'eng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 交城 (Jiāochéng).
Senses: examples: text: In 1972, when the Chiaocheng County Trucking Company in Shansi province over 1,000 kilometers to the north bought five electronic ignition systems from the Fatshan plant, it sent workers and technicians to help the buyers master their use, returning only when they were satisfied.
ref: [1974 February, “China's Young Electronics Industry”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:
text: Chiaocheng County
Chiaocheng county lies 60 kilometres southwest of Taiyuan. It is in the prefecture of Luliang, and a goodly part of it is in the Luliang Mountains, with the peak of Yunmeng Mountain dominating. It is well known as the birthplace of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng.[…]
Chiaocheng county is one of 190,000 people, 180,000 of whom work on agriculture.
ref: [1978 December, Rewi Alley, “Shansi 1978”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:
text: Fanjiazhuang, Jiaocheng
In the summer of 1957, a group of paleoanthropologists on field investigation found a number of paleolithic stone artifacts at Fanjiazhuang Village northwest of Jiaocheng county in Shanxi Province.
ref: 1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:
text: Hua was born in 1921 in Chiao-ch’eng County in Shansi Province. Not much else is known of Hua’s childhood or early experiences except that he came from a poor peasant family that, owing to a natural calamity when he was a child, had to flee to northern Shensi.[…]In 1945 Hua became the secretary of the Chinese Communist party’s* Chiao-ch’eng County Committee and was promoted two years later to be secretary of the Yang-ch’ü County Party Committee and political commissar of the local Communist forces.
ref: [1992, “HUA KUO-FENG”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 166, 167:
text: Residents had on January 27 erected the bronze statue of Hua, Mao Zedong’s hand-picked successor who led the party from 1976 to 1981, at a square outside Hua’s cemetery in Jiaocheng county.
ref: 2016 February 18, Li Jing, “Save Our Statue: dramatic protest in China to save ex-leader Hua Guofeng’s figure from being demolished”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2016, Policies & Politics:
glosses: A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Laflammes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laflamme
McMurrys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McMurry
Odays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oday
Loufan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lou-fan
Etymology: From Mandarin 婁煩／娄烦 (Lóufán).
Senses: examples: text: At least 10 villagers in Loufan county in the northern province of Shanxi were buried by a landslide on Friday morning, Xinhua said.
ref: 2008 July 31, Shipeng Guo, “China mine disasters kill 20, landslide buries 10”, Latest Crisis, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 May 2022:
text: On his blog, the thirty-two-year-old Sun posted an informant’s letter addressed to Wang Jun, who had recently been appointed acting governor of Shanxi province. The letter asked Wang to make a thorough investigation into a fatal landslide that had happened in this region the previous month; apparently, the landslide had been caused by the collapse of an illegal mining dump in Loufan county, and it had reportedly killed eleven people.
ref: 2010, John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt, China's Megatrends, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:
glosses: A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Gujiao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͞oʹjyouʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古交 (Gǔjiāo).
Senses: examples: text: The masses in Kuchiao area organized groups to hunt on the mountains. But, they did not have fowling-pieces and ammunition. When the delegates put forward their demand for these things, 30 guns, 3,000 bullets and 1,000 kilograms of explosives were promptly supplied by the quarters concerned.
ref: [1961, “Taiyuan Municipal People's Council Seriously Handles the Suggestions of the People's Delegates”, in Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 2549-2569, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:
text: According to sources close to Japanese colliery companies and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the plan, based on a Chinese proposal made last month, calls for the development of a steam coal mine in the Yanchow area of Shantung Province and a coking coal mine in the Kuchiao area of Shansi Province.
ref: [1978 November 3, “Tentative Plan for Chinese Coal Field Joint Ventures Formulated”, in The Japan Times, International Airmail edition, volume 82, number 28676, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 6:
text: In Taiyuan, the provincial capital, I was told that a new field of high-quality coking coal was being developed in Gujiao, 56 kilometers away.[...]This was intriguing, and I left for Gujiao by bus, accompanied by a comrade from the provincial coal bureau. We first crossed the Luliang mountains, 1,800 meters above sea level. In the valley, a 47-kilometer electric railway has been built, running through 18 tunnels and over seven bridges across the winding Fenhe River. The Xiqu mine in Gujiao, with a capacity of 3 million tons annually, has begun to take shape.
ref: 1981 July, Tianshen Wen, “Shanxi Province- China's Largest Coal Base”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXX, number 7, →OCLC, page 16:
text: The miners were working in the Tunlan Coal Mine in Shanxi Province, the coal mining heartland of China, when the blast occurred at 2:17 a.m. Sunday morning, state-run news agency Xinhua reported. The mine is in city of Gujiao and is run by the Shanxi Coking Coal Group, one of China’s largest producers of coking coal, which is used in steel production.
ref: 2009 February 23, Edward Wong, “Chinese Mine Disaster Ends With 74 Dead”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2009, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county-level city of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Qingxu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清徐.
Senses: examples: text: Secretary of the Chinghsu County CCP Committee (Yang Ming) and Deputy Secretary (Tao Hsiao-li) have spoken about their study experiences at forums of county, commune, and brigade cadres.
ref: [1971 October 20 [1971 October 3], “Taiyuan Municipality Develops Study Campaign”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 203, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page F 5:
text: Zhao Guifa was born in Zhaojiabao, Qingxu county, Taiyuan, in 1940. He was originally the Zhaojiabao accountant and secretary of the CCP committee, having joined the CCP in 1973.
ref: 1999, David S. G. Goodman, “The New Middle Class”, in Merle Goldman, Roderick MacFarquhar, editors, The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 253:
text: Torrential rains have battered the northern Chinese province of Shanxi in the past few days, leaving parts of the provincial capital Taiyuan and other areas under water, with bridges, railway lines, and houses collapsing after multiple landslides, local residents told RFA on Thursday.[...]
State broadcaster CCTV reported that more than 15,000 residents of eight villages in Qingxu county had been evacuated after a river burst its banks and flooded Xiaowu village, where rescue work is still in progress.
ref: 2021 October 7, Qiao Long, “Villagers Complain of Scant Help in China's Shanxi Amid Flooding, Landslides”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2021:
glosses: A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Xiaodian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyouʹdyěnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 小店 (Xiǎodiàn).
Senses: examples: text: In the early Ming Dynasty, Pingjin county seat (its ruin is located near the Chengxi Village of Xiaodian District) was severely flooded, then the county office had to move onto the ruin of the Ancient Jinyang City of Fenxi and changed back to the old name of Taiyuan County at the 8th Year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1375).
ref: 2006, 姚富生 [Yao Fusheng], editor, 古太原县城 [Ancient Taiyuan County], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 7–8:
english: Ancient Taiyuan County
translation: Ancient Taiyuan County
text: In the retail sector, Wal-Mart opened its 44th Chinese store in the city in 2005. It is situated in the basement of Hexin Shopping Plaza on Changfeng Jie in Xiaodian district.
ref: 2007, “Shanxi”, in The China Business Handbook 2007, 10th edition, Shenzhen: Alain Charles Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 404, column 1:
text: Lishi District 离石区 in Lüliang and Xiaodian District 小店区 in Taiyuan had a strikingly high percentage of young population, around 60 percent.
ref: 2018, Fenggang Yang, “North China [华北地区]”, in Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90, column 1:
english: 华北地区
translation: 华北地区
glosses: A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Jinyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪnˈwɑn/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 晉源 /晋源.
Senses: examples: text: Outside the Guanzhong area, Sui palatial sarcophagi have recently been discovered in the Taiyuan area. A tomb in Wangguo (Jinyuan district, Taiyuan) has a single chamber built in an earthen pit.
ref: 2004, Yang Hong, “Jade Suits of the Han Dynasty and Painted Pottery Figurines of the Tang Dynasty: Reflections of Han and Tang Aristocratic Burial Practices”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor, New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 354:
text: In May 2009, the Jinyuan district government issued a document to villagers revealing that 300 homes, including those belonging to Meng Fugui and Wu Wenyuan, would be demolished and setting out a plan for demolition, compensation and relocation.
ref: 2012, Standing Their Ground: Thousands Face Violent Eviction in China, Amnesty International, →OCLC, page 29:
text: The excavation included archaeologists from the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Shanxi University's School of History and Culture, Taiyuan Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and the Agency of Cultural Relics and Tourism of Jinyuan District, Taiyuan city.
ref: 2017 February 9, Cheyenne Macdonald, Tracy You, “The POTTERY Princess: Researchers find ancient tomb of Chinese General and his wife filled with over 100 tiny figurines - and it could shed light on a little-known Chinese dynasty”, in Daily Mail, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017:
glosses: A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Applewhites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Applewhite
Wanbailin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wänʹbīʹlǐnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬柏林 /万柏林.
Senses: examples: text: Patient Guo, female, 65 years old, lives in Fengshenghe Village, Ximing Township, Wanbailin District, Taiyuan City.
ref: 2019, Zheng Mingde, “Typical Cases Treated with HuaHanZhenShen® Electronic Acupuncture”, in The Science of Modern Acupuncture and Moxibustion, American Academic Press, →ISBN, page 226:
text: The Wanbailin District of Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, has unveiled a plan to spend an amount five times its GDP.
ref: 2019 March 6, Yusho Cho, Takashi Kawakami, “China's new stimulus shovels more debt onto municipalities”, in The Nikkei, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2019, China People's Congress:
text: Construction work at Xiaojingyu Elementary School, which is in Taiyuan's Wanbailin District, has been halted since the discovery.
An official said further excavations into the tomb would not be easy due to the primary school's teaching buildings nearby.
ref: 2019 August 21, Tim Collins, “Chinese imperial tomb with wall art and clay pots dating back 1,300 years is found by builders working on a primary school's new playing field”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2021, Science:
text: A tombstone inside the burial chamber suggested the individual laid to rest underground was "not a commoner". The Tang era is seen by many historians as an era of progress as well as the greatest period for Chinese poetry. Construction work at Xiaojingyu Elementary School, which is in Taiyuan’s Wanbailin District, has been halted since the discovery.
ref: 2019 December, “Tang Dynasty tomb found in a school sports field in China”, in Subterranea, number 52, Subterranea Britannica, →ISSN, →OCLC, Conservation and Heritage, page 5, column 1:
glosses: A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Yingze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yǐngʹdzǔʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 迎澤 /迎泽 (Yíngzé).
Senses: examples: text: The Yingze District Court in Taiyuan heard the case on December 26 and yesterday dismissed charges that Li had committed murder, citing a lack of evidence. Instead, Li was convicted on a lesser offence, reckless driving.
ref: 2009 January 6, “Death of graft-buster not murder, court rules”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2023:
text: With imported wines and live performances, this bar is affordable and entertaining. It is located opposite of the Yingze District Committee.
ref: 2011, “Directory”, in China Expat: A Decade of Writing 2001-2011, Hong Kong: Asia Briefing Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 223:
text: “Shanxi is one of the places where Christians are persecuted with the harshest measures,” wrote a blogger from Beijing’s Gangwashi Church. “Revenge is mine; I will repay,” he said before quoting a verse from the Bible.
The comment is interesting - given the aggressively-worded press release Taiyuan’s offcials released on their website in March. It is entitled: “Yingze District successfully clamped down on a case of Christianity.”
ref: 2013 April 4, Amy Li, “'Don't you dare bring Christianity to Shanxi,' says official before detaining Beijing believer”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2013, China:
text: Perhaps most troubling was the wording of the official press release from the Taiyuan City government offices: “Yingze District successfully clamped down on a case of Christianity".
ref: 2016, Andrew T. Kaiser, “Legacy (1949-2015)”, in The Rushing on of the Purposes of God Christian Missions in Shanxi Since 1876, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9rcDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT308:
glosses: A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Xinghualing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɪŋ.hwɑˈlɪŋ/
enpr: shǐngʹhwäʹlǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 杏花嶺 /杏花岭 (Xìnghuālǐng, literally “apricot blossom ridge”).
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile the T'ai-Yuan-Fu Boys' Boarding School had been transferred to new, more commodious and well-equipped buildings on the Hsing-Hua-Ling site.
ref: [1957, Henry Raymond Williamson, British Baptists in China, 1845-1952, →OCLC, page 106:
text: The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) confirmed Wednesday that a Beijing CCTV reporter detained by Shanxi Province prosecutors is under investigation for accepting bribes.
It also said the Xinghualing District People’s Procuratorate in Taiyuan city, Shanxi, had jurisdiction over the case, and the SPP confirmed the reporter’s detention.
ref: 2008 December 12, Manman Han, “Shanxi prosecuters say CCTV reporter took bribes”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 3:
text: In September of 2011, the Shanxi Combined Transport Group Company brought an action in the Taiyuan Xinghualing District People's Court (Shanxi Province), apparently alleging that Chapter V of the AML and Article 7 of the AUCL had been breached by the Taiyuan Railway Bureau (TRB), a local office of China's Ministry of Railway^([sic – meaning Railways]).
ref: 2013, Michael Faure, Xinzhu Zhang, editors, The Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126:
text: “The suspect, Feng Zhijun, was arrested in Taiyuan,” said a report Friday by the state-run Xinhua news agency. It described Mr. Feng as a 41-year-old resident of Xinghualing District in Taiyuan who previously served a nine-year prison sentence for robbery.
ref: 2013 November 7, Gerry Mullany, “Police Arrest Suspect in Northern China Blasts”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022, Sinosphere:
text: The patient was a 27-year-old female named Guo, working as a teacher in North University of China. She lived at Wuyi Road, Xinghualing District, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.
ref: 2018, Boxin Guo, Traditional Chinese Medicine Is An Intangible Science: My Medical Practice, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Jiancaoping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chien-ts'ao-p'ing
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 尖草坪.
Senses: examples: text: In the Chien-ts'ao-p'ing industrial and mining district of Taiyuan, Shansi Province, urban street offices organized 777 family members to support those workers who had agreed to do additional factory work during 1954.
ref: [1956, Five monographs prepared by the staff of the China Project at Stanford University in fulfillment of performance requirement HRAF subcontract: North China, volume II, Human Relations Area Files, →OCLC, page 867:
text: Similar examples in the archaeological literature are pieces unearthed at Chientsaoping, Taiyuan, Shansi, and Tafuhsiang, Hsingping-hsien, Shensi.
ref: [1995, 鄧淑蘋, 藍田山房藏玉百選, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 270, column 2:
text: In September 2000, Zhao moved his school to Dangu Village Primary School in Jiancaoping District.
ref: 2005 January 14, Wang Fang, “Unlicensed Military School Shut Down”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 8:
text: In August 2020, the Food, Medicine and Environmental Crime Investigation Brigade, Jiancaoping Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, based on clues reported by the public, successfully detected a case of producing and selling counterfeit brand vinegar, arrested 16 suspects, and seized 1,000 counterfeit containers of vinegar on the spot.
ref: 2021 April 25, Aaron Wininger, “China’s Ministry of Public Security Releases Discusses Status of Intellectual Property Criminal Investigations and Lists Typical Cases of Public Security Agencies Cracking Down on Crimes of Intellectual Property Infringement”, in The National Law Review, volume XI, number 115, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2021:
glosses: A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Yangqu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yängʹchüʹ
Forms: form: Yangchu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽曲 /阳曲.
Senses: examples: text: In 1945 Hua became the secretary of the Chinese Communist party’s* Chiao-ch’eng County Committee and was promoted two years later to be secretary of the Yang-ch’ü County Party Committee and political commissar of the local Communist forces.
ref: [1992, “HUA KUO-FENG”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 167:
text: The issue of funding temple festivals, however, would not go away; missionaries repeatedly asked the French minister to address this problem. For example, in a letter that arrived in Beijing on 2 December 1861 describing the situation in Yangqu County in Taiyuan Prefecture, a missionary complained that even though the Zongli yamen had sent a document on these matters to provincial authorities, nothing had changed.
ref: 1996, Roger R. Thompson, “Twilight of the Gods in the Chinese Countryside: Christians, Confucians, and the Modernizing State, 1861-1911”, in Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:
text: Local residents hold flags of various nations to form the Olympic Rings to celebrate the Spring Festival and promote the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on the Loess Plateau in Yangqu country, Shanxi province February 16, 2008.
ref: 2008 March 5, Liu Zhen, Nick Mulvenney, “China ramps up psychology and downplays medal hopes”, in Alastair Himmer, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 28 May 2023, Sports News:
glosses: A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
externity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being external; outwardness
root-cause
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: root-causes
form: root-causing
form: root-caused
form: root-caused
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of root cause.
Dominis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Domini
Polotsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒlətsk/
Etymology: From Belarusian По́лацк (Pólack).
Senses: glosses: A city in Belarus.
Dămienești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Dămienești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Bacău County, Romania.
Liteni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Liteni.
Senses: glosses: A village in Săvădisla, Cluj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Belcești, Iași County, Romania.
glosses: A city in Suceava County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Moara, Suceava County, Romania.
Ripiceni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ripiceni.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Botoșani County, Romania.
Ruginești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Ruginești.
Senses: glosses: A village in Hangu, Neamț County, Romania.
glosses: A village and commune of Vrancea County, Romania.
Sănduleni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Sănduleni.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Sănduleni, Bacău County, Romania.
Bri'ish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪʔɪʃ/
Etymology: Respelling of British imitating the t-glottalisation of some accents and speakers in the United Kingdom, e.g. Cockney accent.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of British.
Bri'ish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪʔɪʃ/
Etymology: Respelling of British imitating the t-glottalisation of some accents and speakers in the United Kingdom, e.g. Cockney accent.
Senses: examples: text: Oi bruv, do you speak Bri'ish?
glosses: British English
Bri'ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪʔɪʃ/
Forms: form: more Bri'ish
form: most Bri'ish
Etymology: Respelling of British imitating the t-glottalisation of some accents and speakers in the United Kingdom, e.g. Cockney accent.
Senses: examples: text: Greet gave his best English accent, a cocktail of aristrocrat and chimney sweep. "How very noice for dear Papa, being at-atched to the Bri'ish Embassy. Must be a lekker job, hey? The Bri'ish' Embassy, cor bloimey."
ref: 2012 May 15, Jason Wallace, Out of Shadows, Holiday House, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of British.
bullatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullatines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of diterpenoid alkaloids that possess antirheumatic, antiinflammatory and/or antinociceptive properties
compogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compograms
Senses: glosses: A graphical comparison of two or more things
compograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compogram
crossclamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossclamps
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A clamp applied to the aorta in order to isolate circulation from the heart
crossclamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crossclamps
form: crossclamping
form: crossclamped
form: crossclamped
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To apply such a clamp
crossclamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossclamp
crossclamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crossclamp
crossclamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crossclamp
crossclamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossclampings
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The application of a crossclamp
detoxificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detoxificate
detoxificated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: detoxified
epitheliolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The breakdown or destruction of epithelial tissue
macrobaenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrobaenids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct turtle of the family †Macrobaenidae
macrobaenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrobaenid
microelimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microeliminations
Etymology: From micro- + elimination.
Senses: glosses: elimination, typically of a pathogen, in one small region at a time
photoexpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photoexposes
form: photoexposing
form: photoexposed
form: photoexposed
Etymology: From photo- + expose.
Senses: glosses: To expose to light
Related terms: photoexposure
photoexposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photoexpose
photoexposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: exposed to light
pneumoallergen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumoallergens
Etymology: From pneumo- + allergen.
Senses: glosses: An allergen in the lungs or respiratory tract
pneumoallergens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumoallergen
presimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presimulations
Etymology: From pre- + simulation.
Senses: glosses: simulation prior to some other process
presimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + simulation.
Senses: glosses: Prior to simulation
face-lifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face-lift
MREs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MRE
Yangquan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yängʹchü-änʹ
Forms: form: Yang-ch'üan
form: Yangchüan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽泉 /阳泉 (Yángquán).
Senses: examples: text: Yangchuan, the leading anthracite producer in China with twelve pairs of mine shafts, fulfilled its 1975 target forty-one days ahead of time and probably produced 7 to 9 million tons during the year.
ref: [1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:
text: The mayors of Handan in Hebei province and Jincheng and Yangquan in Shanxi province were given the orders after being summoned to a meeting at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in Beijing on Thursday to account for their actions during a recent campaign against smog.
ref: 2018 May 2, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China bans new polluting projects in three cities: ministry”, in Philip McClellan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 28 May 2023:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
uproarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uproarish
form: most uproarish
Etymology: From uproar + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The gentle smile turned to uproarish laughter.
ref: 1993, Irene Loyd Black, The Duke's Easter Lady, page 67:
text: He erupted in uproarish laughter at her nonsense.
ref: 2019, Debrah Gish, In the Potter's Hands:
glosses: Characteristic of an uproar; turbulent or unruly; loud and uncontrollable.
Derived terms: uproarishly
uproarishness
uproarishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uproarishly
form: most uproarishly
Etymology: From uproarish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uproarish manner.
uproarishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uproarish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being uproarish.
Pingding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪŋ.dɪŋ/
enpr: pǐngʹdǐngʹ
Forms: form: P'ing-ting
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平定 (Píngdìng).
Senses: glosses: A county of Yangquan, Shanxi, China.
wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger
Jinzhong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒɔŋ/
Forms: form: Chin-chung
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 晉中 /晋中 (Jìnzhōng).
Senses: examples: text: Chinchung Prefecture where Hsiyang County is has scored enormous results in learning from Ta'chai.
ref: [1978 March 1 [1978 January 24], “What Should the Party Committee of a Prefecture Do in Building Ta'chai-type Counties?”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 418, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking PEOPLE'S DAILY, p 1 HK, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Agriculture, page 121:
text: 5 Tachai-type counties were located in the Chinchung Prefecture. None were in South Shansi.¹² In 1976 the population of Chinchung Prefecture was 2,900,000, which accounts for 12.6% of Shansi's population.
ref: [1980, Jin-young Sou, The Tachai Campaign and China's Rural Policy, 1964-1979, →OCLC, page 433:
text: Eight people were killed and one was missing in a coal mine accident on Aug. 11 in Jinzhong city in Shanxi province, China's largest coal producing region, the report added.
ref: 2017 August 21, Chen Aizhu, “China sacks executives, officials after Shanxi coal mine accident”, in Kim Coghill, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2017, COMMODITIES:
text: In mid-December, a coronavirus wave that ripped through the city of Jinzhong, in Shanxi Province, overstretched its hospitals. Long lines formed outside smaller village clinics, and medical equipment like beds and ventilators ran short. Dr. Guo Xiaohong, a physician at a clinic in the city, said that many had recovered since then, and that visits to her clinic had declined by half. But the New Year travel rush holds with it the possibility of similar episodes elsewhere — or even again in Jinzhong.
ref: 2023 January 21, Chang Che, John Liu, “China Cautiously Takes to the Road for Lunar New Year”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.