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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Ming

1670s, dynasty which ruled China from 1368-1644, from Chinese, literally "bright, clear." In reference to the porcelain of the Ming period, attested from 1892.

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Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context now rare English) To mix, blend, mingle. 2 (context obsolete English) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse. 3 (context UK dialectal English) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead. n. mixture. vb. 1 (context now rare English) To mix, blend, mingle. 2 (context obsolete English) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse. 3 (context UK dialectal English) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context British slang English) To be unattractive (person or object). 2 (context British slang English) To be foul smelling. Etymology 3

alt. 1 (context transitive English) To speak of; mention; tell; relate. 2 (context intransitive English) To speak; tell; talk; discourse. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To speak of; mention; tell; relate. 2 (context intransitive English) To speak; tell; talk; discourse.

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Ming (typefaces)

Ming or Song is a category of typefaces used to display Chinese characters, which are used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. They are currently the most common style of type in print for Chinese and Japanese.

Ming (disambiguation)

Ming (明) is a common personal name of the Chinese, the Koreans, and the Vietnamese. In Mandarin pinyin, it is written Míng, in Vietnamese, it is written as Minh, and in Korean it is Myung. It means "bright" or "brilliance". The Chinese character is a conjunction of the words sun (日) and moon (月), representing light, and therefore enlightenment.

Less common names also pronounced Ming include 茗, 铭, 名, 冥, 暝, and 鸣.

Ming may also refer to:

Ming (DJ)

Aaron Albano (born January 1, 1972), better known by his stage name Ming (stylized as MING), is a Grammy Nominated American record producer, song writer and DJ. MING rose to prominence during the American drum and bass and turntablist movements in the late 1990s alongside DJs such as Z-Trip, DJ Spooky, The Beat Junkies, J-Boogie and DJ Craze.

Ming (clam)

Ming ( 1499 – 2006) was a nickname given to a specimen of the ocean quahog clam ( Arctica islandica, family Veneridae), that was dredged off the coast of Iceland in 2006 and whose age was calculated by counting annual growth lines in the shell. Ming was the oldest individual (non- colonial) animal ever discovered whose age could be accurately determined. Originally thought to be 405 years old, Ming was later determined to be 507 years old.

Ming (album)

Ming is the third album by David Murray to be released on the Italian Black Saint label and the first to feature his Octet. It was released in 1980 and features performances by Murray, Henry Threadgill, Olu Dara, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Wilber Morris and Steve McCall.

Ming (surname)

Ming is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. Ming is listed 111th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. It is not among the 300 most common surnames in China.

The name can also be used as a given name.

Usage examples of "ming".

Wailee Ming, Rachel Sexton, Norah Mangor, Michael Tolland, and Corky Marlinson.

By the time she was at the outskirts of the city, smelling the damp, piny smell of the early-mo ming air, she was feeling quite good again.

The five ships of the fleet, each with a complement of twenty or so variously warm bodies, human and saur, have primitive ship-to-ship and space-to-ground missiles, none of which would have impressed a moderately competent pyrotechnician of the Ming Dynasty, and a piratical arsenal of firearms and plasma rifles, which would.

Even then he had learned that an anchorman must be handled as delicately as a Ming vase and receive the deference accorded heads of state.

There was, furthermore, a squint-eyed Lithuanian skipper, wanted for murder in Riga and for piracy in Pernambuco, who took them to Vladivostok and into the tranquil presence of a Nanking compradore with gold-encased fingernails and a charMing taste in early Ming porcelain.

Muslim Mughal Empire of northern India that probably held that title, although the Ottoman Turks and Ming Chinese might have disputed the point.

Ming Dwan had left her desk and had gone into a rest room, where she peeled off her drab dark blue dress, turning it inside out so that it became a bright red shirtmaker consisting of combination skirt and blouse.

If we had about six jars of beans sprouting then we could rotate them and have something different every day: things like mung beans, aduki beans, fenugreek and chick peas.

They were not Chalidang, Kalindan, or any other race that Ari and Ming had yet seen, but seemed a kind of large animal designed for the water, yet almost certainly air breathers from the way they moved.

The choppers pivoted from the flaming wreckage, skim- ming the tips of the pine trees, hurrying toward the meadow beside the lake.

The Mings, with their steeped tea, rejoiced in light ware of white porcelain.

The native dynasty of the Mings which attempted re-nationalisation in the middle of the fifteenth century was harassed by internal troubles, and China again fell under the alien rule of the Manchus in the seventeenth century.

Ming figure identified as a Taoist divinity whose clothing, whose posture, whose facial expression, whose accompaniment of symbolic animals had associations that branched back hundreds and thousands of years, every such conjunction sub-scattering then into increasingly cryptic motifs involving taboos, legends, reincarnations, composite gods.

My grandfather was an important official in Yangzhou during the Ming dynasty, and he was brave too.

Princess Chang, the Princess Royal, daughter of last Ming Emperor Chong Zhen.