Use the word china in a sentence

Synonym: China, Communist China, Nationalist China, PRC, People’s Republic of China, Red China, Republic of China, Taiwan, chinaware, mainland China. Similar words: chin, bleaching, chip, child, chill, chicken, achieve, chilled. Meaning: [‘tʃaɪnə]  n. 1. a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world 2. high quality porcelain originally made only in China 3. a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong 4. dishware made of high quality porcelain. 

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1. China has a long history of civilisation.

2. Tea is raised chiefly in China, Japan and India.

3. It’s known that acupuncture originated in China.

4. China is a large country with a long history.

5. Shenyang is situated in the northeast of China.

6. Beijing is the capital of China.

7. In China, her blonde hair was conspicuous.

8. This car is made in China.

9. A glass-fronted cabinet displayed a collection of china figurines.

10. Japan lies to the east of China.

11. This country export fruit to China.

12. China bounds on Russia in the north.

13. I will make China stronger.

14. Buddhism was introduced into China about 67 AD.

15. China has never truckled to superpowers.

16. In 1970,(http://sentencedict.com)China successfully lauched a man-made satellite.

17. He trotted out his best china.

18. He toyed with the idea of going to China.

19. China is rich in minerals.

20. When did you first come over to China?

21. Taiwan is the largest island of China.

22. She has been to China .

23. Nepal has frontiers with both India and China.

24. There are 1.2 billion people in China now.

25. China is rich in coal mine.

26. When was the People’s Republic of China founded?

27. Summer in south China is hot and humid.

28. They continued to get their silks from China.

29. China cups are apt to break.

30. This china came from a junk shop.

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She knew the Mongols had taken over most of China because they had ponies


2.
This is my first look at your site and it’s terrific! We are just getting into the agricultural business with a special growing soil found in China


3.
No one ever knew what had come from the moon base Talstan had taken over from China


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An International NGO (which is also active in India) has facilitated the establishment of Old People’s Associations in four locations across Shaanxi Province in China


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China is old and so is her knowledge of the ocean


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The ship was built when the first human simulates were running in China


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Genetics was considered the blackest of the black arts and it had been at the heart of the generations of conflict between Talstan and China


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It was the last mortal superpower when the war began, the power in China and Talstan was in silicon and on the moon


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China was left with no source of new souls but cloning, and there were rumors it was rampant on its half of the moon


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Centre stage, overlooking the street sat a huge white ceramic lattice-work basket filled to the brim with plump ceramic fruit — china cherries, apples, pomegranates and pears

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Once through the tunnel, we eat, the sound of rain hitting the barge above our heads a musical counterpoint to the chatter of the crew members and the cutlery on the china


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Over a plateful of slightly stale tractor-wheel biscuits and weak tea in chipped china cups, Danny and Annie found out that there were no savings, no insurance policies and no investments


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«I just heard from a guy with a cryo-slicer and fabricator on mortal ground in China,” Thom told her


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to his china training shoes


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“He’s an old friend of Thom’s living in a cryoslicer in what’s left of China


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a trip to China


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at my back, pushing me in the direction of China


18.
Travel in China was somewhat restricted at


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On this branch of history the modern day Atlantis looked more like China, with hundred story buildings along the shore and great hanger bridges and even venerable motorway bridges spanning between islands


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During that time Talstan had overrun most of Siberia, then China and most of Russia

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tea in chipped china cups, Danny and Annie found out that there


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“There are quantum mechanics scholars in China,” she said, “They know those words


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She loaded a model of 17th century China into it to get him started


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’ He said, indicating a china pot sitting on the worktop


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The tables were dressed in linen and set with white china place settings, accented with silverware bearing the engraved initials of the Union Pacific Railway on each piece


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The goblets and glasses were crystal, and the cups and saucers matched the china plates, all decorated with the Railway’s own designs


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“Once in China there lived an old widow and her son, Chen


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Stanley and Raymond decided to travel to Shanghai, China, so they could show the


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» He stopped her at buying the china


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It seems she was waiting for an audience with her employer and happened into a conversation with a wealthy merchant of southern China, who was to meet with the Minister of Trade or some such

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Soon even the china in the glass hutch was dancing under its thundering crashes


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Let’s look and see whether we have the money for a holiday in China


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Scanning the area, she discovered the room that had once held her glass china hutch had disappeared


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«No» she whispered kicking her feet, but it was more then she could do to hold on to the china


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He bought a copy of the China daily US edition


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With forests in the north and deserts in the south, it stretches from Russia’s Siberia to the deserts of China and the Caspian sea


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China has been long one of the richest, that is, one of the most fertile, best cultivated, most industrious, and most populous, countries in the world


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The accounts of all travellers, inconsistent in many other respects, agree in the low wages of labour, and in the difficulty which a labourer finds in bringing up a family in China


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The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations in Europe


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Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them

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It is this demand which regulates and determines the state of propagation in all the different countries of the world ; in North America, in Europe, and in China ; which renders it rapidly progressive in the first, slow and gradual in the second, and altogether stationary in the last


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China seems to have been long stationary, and had, probably, long ago acquired that full complement of riches which is consistent with the nature of its laws and institutions


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accordingly, is said to be the common interest of money in China, and the ordinary profits of stock must be sufficient to afford this large interest


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It is told that in the ancient kingdom of the Sassanidae, which reigned for about four hundred years, from Persia to the borders of China, we read the praises of one of the kings of this race, who was said to be the best monarch of his time


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Indeed, after ten years, the King cut off the country of the Tartars (China) from the Persian Empire and made his brother Sultan of it


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In China and Indostan, accordingly,


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She put on a head-dress of diamonds, and looking more beautiful than ever, received the magician, saying to his great amazement: “I have made up my mind that Aladdin is dead, and that all my tears will not bring him back, so I have decided to mourn no more, and have invited you to eat with me; but I am tired of the wines of China, and would like to taste those of Africa


48.
He then went to the lifeless magician, took the lamp out of his vest, and bade the genie carry the palace and all in it back to China and then take the magician to the darkest dungeon in chains


49.
In Cochin China, the finest white sugar generally sells for three piastres the quintal, about thirteen shillings and sixpence of our money, as we are told by Mr Poivre {Voyages d’un Philosophe


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The greater part of the cultivated lands in Cochin China are employed in producing corn and rice, the food of the great body of the people

51.
The showman was peering over the box of china and shaking his head, muttering «I’ll kill that Fred


52.
The silver of Peru finds its way, not only to Europe, but from Europe to China


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The price of silver in Peru, or the quantity either of labour or of other goods which it will purchase there, must have some influence on its price, not only at the silver mines of Europe, but at those of China


54.
Dingle an ungrateful stare and Fizzicist in his panic dropped a china plate, which bounced back into his cloth


55.
OUT I SAY!» Sister Miriam of the Little Nuns of Goodwill heaved a heavy china pot in Tom Foolery’s direction


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China is a much richer country than any part of Europe, and the difference between the price of subsistence in China and in Europe is very great


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Rice in China is much cheaper than wheat is any where in Europe


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The difference between the money price of labour in China and in Europe, is still greater than that between the money price of subsistence; because the real recompence of labour is higher in Europe than in China, the greater part of Europe being in an improving state, while China seems to be standing still


59.
At the seventh Morton’s ball landed in a sand bunker but continued to drive down towards China


60.
Even the Muscovites now trade regularly with China, by a sort of caravans which go over land through Siberia and Tartary to Pekin

61.
The consumption of the porcelain of China, of the spiceries of the Moluccas, of the piece goods of Bengal, and of innumerable other articles, has increased very nearly in a like proportion


62.
But in the East Indies, particularly in China and Indostan, the value of the precious metals, when the Europeans first began to trade to those countries, was much higher than in Europe; and it still continues to be so


63.
The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects in Europe


64.
But the real price of labour, the real quantity of the necessaries of life which is given to the labourer, it has already been observed, is lower both in China and Indostan, the two great markets of India, than it is through the greater part of Europe


65.
But in countries of equal art and industry, the money price of the greater part of manufactures will be in proportion to the money price of labour; and in manufacturing art and industry, China and Indostan, though inferior, seem not to be much inferior to any part of Europe


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In China and Indostan, the extent and variety of inland navigations save the greater part of this labour, and consequently of this money, and thereby reduce still lower both the real and the nominal price of the greater part of their manufactures


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advantageous, too, to carry silver thither than gold; because in China, and the greater part of the other markets of India, the proportion between fine silver and fine gold is but as ten, or at most as twelve to one; whereas in Europe it is as fourteen or fifteen to one


68.
In China, and the greater part of the other markets of India, ten, or at most twelve ounces of silver, will purchase an ounce of gold ; in Europe, it requires from fourteen to fifteen ounces


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In China, the proportion of gold to silver still continues as one to ten, or one to twelve


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Their quantity in China and Indostan must have been more or less affected by the abundance of the mines of America

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In China, a country much richer than any part of Europe, the value of the precious metals is much higher than in any part of Europe


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decisions in China would be catastrophic for wide world


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representative of China was unhappy that the


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The course of human prosperity, indeed, seems scarce ever to have been of so long continuance as to unable any great country to acquire capital sufficient for all those three purposes; unless, perhaps, we give credit to the wonderful accounts of the wealth and cultivation of China, of those of ancient Egypt, and of the ancient state of Indostan


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The: wealth of ancient Egypt, that of China and Indostan, sufficient1y demonstrate that a nation may attain a very high degree of opulence, though the greater part of its exportation trade be carried on by foreigners


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But the empires of China, Indostan, Japan, as well as several others in the East Indies, without having richer mines of gold or silver, were, in every other respect, much richer, better cultivated, and more advanced in all arts and


77.
The greater part of it would replace the capitals which had been employed in Virginia, Indostan, and China, and which had given revenue and maintenance to the inhabitants of those distant countries


78.
But Gong Fu did not originate in China


79.
The flap of a butterfly’s wings in Central Park could ultimately cause an earthquake in China


80.
To demonstrate what he means by this, he gives an example of how an earthquake in China could ultimately cause a butterfly to flap its wings in Central Park

81.
When Buddhism migrated to China, it met with Taoist philosophy, and from this encounter emerged what is known as Zen Buddhism


82.
Instead of the wealth, cultivation, and populousness of China and Indostan, he found, in St


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He was not very willing, however, to believe that they were not the same with some of the countries described by Marco Polo, the first European who had visited, or at least had left behind him any description of China or the East Indies ; and a very slight resemblance, such as that which he found between the name of Cibao, a mountaim in St


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Zen (Zen in Japan, Ch’an in China) is another branch of Buddhism that eschews theory and ritual, and holds to the original teaching of the Buddha


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Zen developed long after the Buddha died, when Buddhism came to China and fell under the influence of the teaching of the Tao


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Tai Chi is an ancient martial art, one that was practiced for centuries in China as


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forced rule; but with Russia and China as


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It lies upon the most frequented road from Indostan to China and Japan, and is nearly about mid-way upon that road


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Almost all the ships too, that sail between Europe and China, touch at Batavia; and it is, over and above all this, the centre and principal mart of what is called the country trade of the East Indies; not only of that part of it which is carried on by Europeans, but of that which is carried on by the native Indians; and vessels navigated by the inhabitants of China and Japan, of Tonquin, Malacca, Cochin-China, and the island of Celebes, are frequently to be seen in its port


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“What are these professional traders bringing to China?” So I visited the lower deck

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the city of Canton, China


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My trading in China now being at an end, I loaded that day’s take of Chinese-made merchandise onto The Lucky Mermaid and then went back ashore to the counting house where I exchanged a gold piece for some local Chinese currency


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In countries, besides, less extensive, and less favourably circumstanced for inferior commerce than China, they generally require the support of foreign trade


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But the great extent of the empire of China, the vast multitude of its inhabitants, the variety of climate, and consequently of productions in its different provinces, and the easy communication by means of water-carriage between the greater part of them, render the home market of that country of so great extent, as to be alone sufficient to support very great


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The home market of China is, perhaps, in extent, not much inferior to the market of all the different countries of Europe put together


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A more extensive foreign trade, however, which to this great home market added the foreign market of all the rest of the world, especially if any considerable part of this trade was carried on in Chinese ships, could scarce fail to increase very much the manufactures of China, and to improve very much the productive powers of its manufacturing industry


What is the summary of the story The White Ship by H.P. Lovecraft? Information about the characters and the summary of The White Ship by H.P. Lovecraft.

The White Ship

The White Ship

“The White Ship” is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, published in 1919. The story follows an unnamed narrator as he dreams of sailing on a strange ship, the “White Ship,” to an unknown, mystical land. The ship is piloted by a mysterious figure known only as the “mariner,” who tells the narrator of the fantastic and terrifying sights that await him in this land, including giant sea monsters and ancient, ruined cities. Eventually, the narrator wakes from his dream, but is left with a sense of longing for the unknown land and the white ship. The story is a reflection of the author’s love for the sea and for the unknown, and is notable for its use of dream-like imagery and otherworldly landscapes.

Summary

“The White Ship” is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, published in 1919. The story begins with the narrator describing a dream he had, in which he sets sail on a ship called the “White Ship.” The ship is piloted by a mysterious figure known only as the “mariner,” who tells the narrator that the ship is bound for a land beyond the horizon, a place of beauty and wonder.

As the ship sails on, the narrator sees many fantastic and terrifying sights, such as giant sea monsters and ancient, ruined cities. The mariner tells the narrator that these sights are but a small taste of the wonders that await them in this unknown land.

Despite the mariner’s assurances, the narrator begins to feel a sense of unease and fear as they sail deeper into the unknown. He starts to question the mariner, who tells him that the journey is one of self-discovery and that the true beauty of the land lies in its mystery.

As the ship approaches the unknown land, the narrator wakes from his dream and finds himself back in his own bed. Despite this, the narrator is left with a sense of longing and yearning for the unknown land and the white ship. He realizes that the dream was not just a dream, but a glimpse of a world beyond our own, and that he will forever be haunted by the memory of the white ship and the unknown land it promised to take him to.

The story is notable for its use of dream-like imagery, otherworldly landscapes and its theme of self-discovery. It is also a reflection of Lovecraft’s love for the sea, and his fascination with the unknown and the mysterious.

Characters

In the short story “The White Ship” by H. P. Lovecraft, there are two main characters:

  • The narrator: The narrator is an unnamed character who recounts the dream he had of sailing on the white ship. He is the protagonist of the story, and the reader experiences the journey through his perspective.
  • The mariner: The mariner is the mysterious figure who pilots the white ship. He is described as a tall and imposing figure, dressed in a long cloak. He is the one who guides the narrator through the journey, and tells him about the unknown land they are sailing to. He is a symbolic character representing the unknown, the mysterious and the enigmatic.

The story also mentions some secondary characters such as the crew of the ship, sea monsters and other beings, but they are not developed or described in detail.

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Sentence Examples

I wanna sail under my own steam to china, India and those spiggoty ports.

And we’ll sail to china and India, and all those spiggoty places.

I’m not liking these dishes. Where might the Italian china be?

Will it be china or Old Mexico on my mission?

Let’s all keep our minds focus on targeting America after china.

If you look at it in the chronological order that these cards were sent… she lived in L.A. for three years, in New York for four years and she’s lived in china for three years.

Three years in L.A., four years in New York, and three years in china.

For more than a year Professor Gesellius, the famous doctor had been in china, the homeland of opium, in order to study this mysterious poison

Richard Armstrong is the son of a doctor who has been missing in china for 17 years

Having heard of your investigations in china we would like to help you in fighting the opium problem in India

Here are the decoded contents of the secret document About four hundred years ago, the Ming dynasty in china has in possession a diamond, which because of its peculiar shape resembled the head of Buddha.

The horse carried them to far away china

They didn┬┤t notice the china from Meissen.

Ping Pong was the Emperor of china‘s favourite.

Well, anyway… next morning the sun was shining the ocean was as smooth as glass. And right up the starboard was the coast of china.

Every color of them, from here to the china Sea.

And I’ll tell your mother that you weren’t in china— that you were in jail.

Steve’s gonna take you to china.

Here in India. and in china. too. from where comes the bubonic plague. I have seen village after village dying.

Not so far ago the whole population of London was nearly wiped out because a little rat carried the germ of the bubonic plague on a ship from china to England.

I will teach you what I learn in china and in India.

I will teach you what I learned in china and India.

I have to see whole continents and generations of children yet unborn in china. in India. and even. it seems. in your own West Indies.

The representative from china has the floor.

While you skip to New York or china or someplace, huh?

Yes, madame, cr├¬pe from china, very light tea, we’ve got more than five nuances, it came only yesterday.

If somebody ask me: Can you find out a utopia in this devastated china now?

«If your warlord uncle didn’t take us escape from china, we wouldn’t have seen this fancy performance.»

Well, we can’t let you break all the china you want without charging you.

It’s an awful job carrying china all the time, especially up and down the stairs.

Yes, I know, but breaking china all the time, I’m really making less money.

You didn’t break any more china, did you?

Henry, you broke 11 dollars and 60 cents worth of china.

Of course, if you want to go on breaking china, that’s entirely your own affair.

I understand you cannot help breaking all that china, but they think it’s rather queer for a husband and father to go on day after day, night after night, year in and year out…

Not that I’m complaining, but if you don’t stop being careless and breaking china, there won’t be much chance for her to have the clothes every girl ought to.

# I’d better take a trip Yes, a trip on a ship # #To china or Peru #

Give him all the water he wants and more. The china boy will give you whatever else you need.

Youre hopeless. lt┬┤ss a woman who lives by her wits along the china coast.

Sir, let me remind you that china is in a state of civil war and we will be fortunate if we arrive in Shanghai at all.

Youre in china now, sir, where time and life have no value.

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[ chahy-nuh ]

/ ˈtʃaɪ nə /

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noun

a translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature.

any porcelain ware.

plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively.

figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material, collectively: a collection of china.

Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a playing marble of china, or sometimes of porcelain or glass.

adjective

made of china.

indicating the twentieth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.

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Origin of china

First recorded in 1645–55; by ellipsis from chinaware

Words nearby china

chimney wheel, chimp, chimpanzee, Chimu, chin, china, China aster, china bark, chinaberry, china blue, china, China

Other definitions for china (2 of 2)

China

[ chahy-nuh ]

/ ˈtʃaɪ nə /


noun

Origin of China

First recorded in 1550–60; of uncertain origin, but probably ultimately from Sanskrit Cīnas “the Chinese,” from Chinese Ch’in

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How to use china in a sentence

  • Just as China, with its opulent palaces, porcelain and scholar-gentry, would dominate the landscape of Western imagination, Persia invited its own share of adventurers.

  • In China, for example, Pinduoduo has become a formidable rival to Alibaba through its group-selling model and focus on fresh produce.

  • The round comes two years after Tim Hortons made its foray into China’s booming coffee industry.

  • Since its launch in China in 2016, TikTok has become one of the world’s fastest-growing social networks.

  • Since TikTok launched in China in 2016, it has become one of the most engaging and fastest-growing social media platforms in the world.

  • He did travel to China and Australia while the story was unfolding.

  • In 1957, the islands came under repeated shelling by Mainland—or as it was then called, “Red”— China.

  • The two islands are now tourist sites for visitors from Taiwan and mainland China.

  • At least 70 percent of the children were adopted from overseas, including Russia, China, Ethiopia and Ukraine.

  • The Communist Party of China gets a bad rap for cracking down on religion.

  • Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.

  • I shipped for a voyage to Japan and China, and spent several more years trying to penetrate the forbidden fastnesses of Tibet.

  • The ships from China do not come, and it is with their merchandise that our ships must go to Nueva Spaña.

  • Black Sheep was sent to the drawing-room and charged into a solid tea-table laden with china.

  • In former years, Korea had paid an annual tribute or tax to China, but for some time it had been held back by this king.

British Dictionary definitions for china (1 of 3)


noun

ceramic ware of a type originally from China

any porcelain or similar ware

cups, saucers, etc, collectively

(modifier) made of chinaa china tea service

Word Origin for china

C16 chiny, from Persian chīnī

British Dictionary definitions for china (2 of 3)


noun

British and Southern African informal a friend or companion

Word Origin for china

C19: originally Cockney rhyming slang: china plate, mate

British Dictionary definitions for china (3 of 3)


noun

People’s Republic of China, Communist China or Red China a republic in E Asia: the third largest and the most populous country in the world; the oldest continuing civilization (beginning over 2000 years bc); republic established in 1911 after the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty by Sun Yat-sen; People’s Republic formed in 1949; the 1980s and 1990s saw economic liberalization but a rejection of political reform; contains vast deserts, steppes, great mountain ranges (Himalayas, Kunlun, Tian Shan, and Nan Shan), a central rugged plateau, and intensively cultivated E plains. Language: Chinese in various dialects, the chief of which is Mandarin. Religion: nonreligious majority; Buddhist and Taoist minorities. Currency: yuan. Capital: Beijing. Pop: 1 349 586 000 (2013 est). Area: 9 560 990 sq km (3 691 502 sq miles)

Republic of China, Nationalist China or Taiwan a republic (recognized as independent by only 24 nations) in E Asia occupying the island of Taiwan, 13 nearby islands, and 64 islands of the Penghu (Pescadores) group: established in 1949 by the Nationalist government of China under Chiang Kai-shek after its expulsion by the Communists from the mainland; its territory claimed by the People’s Republic of China since the political separation from the mainland; under US protection 1954–79; lost its seat at the UN to the People’s Republic of China in 1971; state of war with the People’s Republic of China formally ended in 1991, though tensions continue owing to the unresolved territorial claim. Language: Mandarin Chinese. Religion: nonreligious majority, Buddhist and Taoist minorities. Currency: New Taiwan dollar. Capital: Taipei. Pop: 22 610 000 (2003 est). Area: 35 981 sq km (13 892 sq miles)Former name: Formosa

Other words from China

Related adjective: Sinitic

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Cultural definitions for china

notes for China

China is the most populous country in the world and the third largest, after Russia and Canada.

notes for China

The Boxer Rebellion of 1900 grew out of strong resentment of foreign influence in China.

notes for China

A revolution in 1911 overthrew the Qing dynasty, ending the two-thousand-year-old imperial system.

notes for China

The Second Sino-Japanese War, which lasted from 1937 to 1945 (merging with World War II in 1941), grew out of Japanese encroachments on Chinese land.

notes for China

In 1950, Chinese forces joined the North Korean army in the Korean War.

notes for China

In 1958, Mao undertook the “Great Leap Forward” campaign, a crash program of industrialization, but none of its goals were reached, and the effort collapsed.

notes for China

In 1960, the ideological split between the Soviet Union and China widened, and the Soviets withdrew all aid.

notes for China

In the mid-1960s, Mao’s wife, acting on his behalf, and three colleagues, later known as the Gang of Four, advanced the goals of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, aimed at eliminating old ideas and customs. Mobs attacked schools and cultural centers, brutally disrupting the entire nation. With the death of Mao in 1976 and the trial of the Gang of Four in 1980, the Cultural Revolution came to an end.

notes for China

In 1972, President Richard Nixon visited China, reopening relations between mainland China and the United States.

notes for China

In 1989, the government brutally suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

notes for China

Although China remains officially communist, its government encourages capitalism in designated areas, especially in its southeastern provinces. China has experienced considerable economic development in recent decades. Relations with the United States remain tense, especially over Taiwan, but the United States supported China’s admission to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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