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china1 /chīˈnə/

noun
  1. (orig chiˈnaware) articles of porcelain brought from China in the 16c
  2. Chinese porcelain or esp any Western imitation or version of it
  3. Mate (from china plate; Cockney rhyming sl)
adjective
  1. Made of china
  2. (with cap) of, from, etc China
ORIGIN: Prob from the Ch'in dynasty, 3c BC

Chīneeˈ noun (archaic; informal)

A Chinese person

Chinese /chī-nēzˈ/ noun

  1. A native or citizen of China (pl Chīneseˈ)
  2. The language of China
  3. A meal of Chinese food (informal)
  4. A Chinese restaurant (informal)
adjective

(in names of commodities, sometimes without cap) of, concerning or relating, etc to China, its language or its people

China aster see under aster

china bark see cinchona

chiˈnaberry noun

  1. A tropical Asian tree (Melia azedarach) of the family Meliaceae(also called china tree)
  2. Its yellow, bead-like fruit
  3. Soapberry

china clay noun

Kaolin, fine white clay used in making porcelain, etc

China goose noun

The Chinese goose

China grass noun

Rami

China ink see under ink

China jute noun

A species of Abutilon

Chiˈnaman noun

  1. A Chinese person (derogatory)
  2. (without cap) a ball bowled by a left-arm bowler that spins in the opposite direction to the bowler's usual delivery (cricket)

chiˈnaroot noun

Root-stock of Smilax china

China rose noun

Any of several garden roses, esp Rosa chinensis, a shrub rose, ancestor of many cultivated varieties

china stone noun

Partly kaolinized granite

China tea noun

A kind of tea grown in China and smoke-cured

Chiˈnatown noun

A Chinese quarter in a city or town

china tree see chinaberry above.

Chinese block noun

The Chinese temple block

Chinese boxes plural noun

A set of boxes nesting one inside another, so that when one box is opened, yet another is found to be opened inside it

Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale noun

Another name for gai lan

Chinese burn noun

The burning pain caused by gripping another person's lower arm with two hands and deliberately twisting the flesh in opposite directions

Chinese cabbage noun

Either of two kinds of plant, Brassica chinensis or Brassica pekinensis, with edible leaves (also called bok choy, pak choi)

Chinese checkers or Chinese chequers noun

A board game similar to draughts for two, four or six players

Chinese Chippendale noun

A style of Chippendale furniture in which Chinese motifs are used

Chinese copy noun

An exact copy, including all the defects in the original

Chinese goose noun

The largest living goose, Anser (or Cygnopsis) cygnoides, domesticated in E Asia

Chinese gooseberry noun

Another name for kiwi fruit

Chinese herbal medicine noun

The use of combinations of various properties and attributes of herbs to restore balance of qi and nourish the constitution

Chinese lantern noun

A collapsible paper lantern

Chinese lantern plant same as winter cherry (see under winter).

Chinese layering noun

Air layering (qv)

Chinese leaves plural noun

The edible leaves of Chinese cabbage

Chinese paper noun

  1. A fine soft brownish paper-like material made from bamboo bark, used in making fine impressions of engravings
  2. Also the so-called rice paper

Chinese pavilion see under pavilion

Chinese puzzle noun

A very difficult puzzle or problem

Chinese radish noun

Mooli (also white radish, daikon)

Chinese red noun

A bright-red colour or pigment

Chinese restaurant syndrome noun

A short-lived illness with symptoms including chest pain, dizziness and flushing, attributed to the consumption of too much monosodium glutamate, common in Chinese food

Chinese sugarcane see under sorghum

Chinese temple block noun

A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block that is struck with a hammer

Chinese wall noun (often in pl)

The strict demarcation barrier which must exist between eg the corporate finance and investment advisory departments of a bank, etc in order to ensure that privileged information available to one department is not available to the other and so prevent conflicts of interest from arising

Chinese water deer noun

A small deer (Hydropotes inermis) of swampland in China and Korea, having tusks and no antlers

Chinese whispers singular noun

A game in which a message is passed in a whisper from one to another of a group of people, with the result that the final version is different from the original, often amazingly or humorously so

Chinese white noun

A zinc oxide pigment

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