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chinese

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Word definitions for chinese in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from China + -ese . As a noun from c.1600. Chinee (n.) is a vulgar back-formation from this word on the mistaken notion that the word is a plural. As an adjective, Chinish also was used 16c. Chinese fire-drill "chaotic situation of many people rushing ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper . See India paper , under India . Chinese wax , a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccid[ae] ...

Usage examples of chinese.

Callao and Guayaquil to Nicaragua and Guatemala, under pretext of going for pitch and other things, and then often go from there to the port of Acapulco to lade Chinese cloth, in return for a great sum of silver which they carry, practicing many efforts and frauds.

Himalayas, the aeroplankton now drifted hundreds of kilometers thick in enormous fronts all over the world due to a jet stream knocked off course by a Chinese nuclear test.

In fact, special black bag teams have taken over Chinese airfreight planes.

Amerikan Peace Movement whose theory of justice was that the brutal Amerikan Army should move out of Southeast Asia so that the Cambodians could fertilize their fields with the bodies of Cambodians so that the Vietnamese could prey on the corpse of a decimated nation so that the Chinese could punish the Vietnamese so that the Vietnamese could drown their own Chinese in the sea.

Sunday, May 17 0052 hours Naval yards Amoy, China Four SEALS dove behind heavy wooden boxes to avoid the rounds from the two Chinese soldiers ahead.

Sunday, May 17 0353 hours Near the coast Amoy, China The Chinese paratroops above began firing automatic weapons, but they were at a terrible disadvantage.

A relic from the bad old days, when outlaw logging outfits ran wild in the country south of the Amur and east of the Ussuri, clearcutting vast areas of supposedly protected forest with no more than token interference from the paid-off authorities, shipping the lumber out to the ever-hungry Chinese and Japanese markets.

Chinese Classics in gold upon them, and the large establishment, show that the family belongs to the upper class of Anamites, and leave one quite unprepared for the reeking, festering heap of garbage below the house, the foul, fetid air, and swarming vermin of the interior, and the unwashedness of the inmates.

The Chinese Anchors had been taken from within because there was no way to direct sufficient power along the transmission lines.

The seemingly random disposition of Chinese surface ships resolved into a classic amphibious operations and antiair formation.

As the team watched, four antiair missiles sprang out from the Chinese horde and headed straight for the hapless American aircraft.

The new administration scrapped the antiballistic missile treaty and endured a mini-crisis with China over the collision of a Chinese fighter with a U.

Their skins are chocolate-tinted but their faces betray the genetic mishmash that is their ancestry - perhaps they call themselves Arapesh, Mundugumor, Tchambuli, Mafulu, in the way that he calls himself a Jew, but they have been liberally larded with chromosomes contributed by Chinese, Japanese, Europeans, Africans, everything.

Hard on their heels came Mesdames Celeste and Elizabeth, accompanied by a bevy of seamstresses bearing armsful of muslins, crapes, taffetas, organdies, hand-painted Chinese silks, and Indian silks.

Anticipating even then the loss of lower Burma, even before the Japanese had crossed the border, the Chinese formally requested Lend-Lease material to construct a road from Ledo in Assam across the mountains, forests and rivers of north Burma to tie in with the Burma Road on the Chinese side at Lungling.