SHIMONOSEKI STRAIT

Meaning of SHIMONOSEKI STRAIT in English

Function: geographical name

strait Japan bet. Honshu & Kyushu connecting Inland Sea & Korea Strait

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SHIMONOSEKI STRAIT — geographical name strait Japan between Honshu & Kyushu connecting Inland Sea & Korea Strait
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SHIMONOSEKI STRAIT — strait Japan between Honshu & Kyushu connecting Inland Sea & Korea Strait
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHIMONOSEKI STRAIT — прол. Симоносеки
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SHIMONOSEKI STRAIT — прол. Симоносеки
Англо-Русский географический словарь
STRAIT — a. strett; n. strette; desfacilitá
English interlingue dictionary
STRAIT — hiktin
English-Visayan vocabulary
SHIMONOSEKI — or formerly Bakan geographical name city & port Japan in SW Honshu on ~ Strait population 262,643
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STRAIT — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Bass Strait Canso Strait of Chatham Strait Cook Strait Davis Strait Dover Strait of …
Английский словарь Британика
STRAIT — I. ˈstrāt, usu -ād.+V adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English streit, strait, straight, from Old French estreit, from Latin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SHIMONOSEKI — ˌshimənōˈsākē, -ˈsekē; -ˈnōsəkē adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: from Shimonoseki, Japan : of or from the city of Shimonoseki, Japan …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STRAIT — ( a. ) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
STRAIT — — straitly , adv. — straitness , n. /strayt/ , n. 1. Often, straits . ( used with a sing. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SHIMONOSEKI — /shim'euh neuh say"kee/ ; Japn. /shee"maw naw se"kee/ , n. a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: treaty ending …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STRAIT — I. ˈstrāt adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French estreit, from Latin strictus strait, strict, from past participle of stringere Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHIMONOSEKI — geographical name or formerly Ba·kan ˈbä-ˌkän city & port Japan in SW Honshu on Shimonoseki Strait population 262,643
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STRAIT — adj a variant of straight. 2. strait ·superl narrow; not broad. 3. strait ·adv strictly; rigorously. 4. strait ·adj a …
Webster English vocab
STRAIT — [strait] adj [ME, fr. OF estreit, fr. L strictus strait, strict, fr. pp. of stringere] (13c) 1 archaic: strict, rigorous …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SHIMONOSEKI — largest city, Yamaguchi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, occupying a strategic position on the Shimonoseki-kaikyo (Shimonoseki Strait) between Honshu and Kyushu. …
Britannica English vocabulary
STRAIT — strait BrE AmE streɪt ▷ straits streɪts
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
STRAIT — / streɪt; NAmE / noun 1. [ pl. ] (also straits ) (especially in the names of places) a narrow …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STRAIT — strait /streɪt/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Origin: strait 'narrow' (13-20 centuries) , from Old French estreit …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STRAIT — n. & adj. n. 1 (in sing. or pl.) a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or large bodies …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
STRAIT — n. & adj. --n. 1. (in sing. or pl.) a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or large bodies …
Oxford English vocab
STRAIT — ( straits) 1. You can refer to a narrow strip of sea which joins two large areas of sea as …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STRAIT — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE desperate ▪ Without papal assistance, crown finances would have been in even more desperate …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
STRAIT — [noun] [C usually plural] - a narrow area of sea which connects two larger areas of seaThe Straits of GibraltarThe …
Cambridge English vocab
STRAIT — n. Bass Strait Belle Isle Strait of Canso Strait of Chatham Strait Cook Strait Davis Strait Dover Strait of Euripus …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
STRAIT — noun 1 narrow piece of water connecting seas, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ narrow VERB + STRAIT ▪ go through , pass …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
STRAIT — n. 25B6; noun a strait about six miles wide : CHANNEL, sound, inlet, stretch of water. the company is in …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
STRAIT — laced adj. priggish, prim, conservative, old-fashioned, Victorian, old-maidish, proper, prudish, puritanical, moralistic, strict, narrow-minded, (over-)scrupulous, fussy, Colloq pernickety or US …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда in desperate strait ≈ в отчаянном положении …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
STRAIT — strait.ogg _I 1. streıt n 1. обыкн. pl (узкий) пролив the Strait of Magellan - Магелланов пролив the Straits of …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SHIMONOSEKI — г. Симоносеки
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SHIMONOSEKI — (0) симоносеки
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
STRAIT — I 1. [streıt] n 1. обыкн. pl (узкий) пролив the Strait of Magellan - Магелланов пролив the Straits of Dover …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
STRAIT — _I 1. streıt n 1. обыкн. pl (узкий) пролив the Strait of Magellan - Магелланов пролив the Straits of Dover …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив the Straits of Gibraltar — Гибралтарский пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив the Straits of Gibraltar — Гибралтарский пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда in desperate strait — …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
STRAIT — - pelvic strait
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
STRAIT — - pelvic strait
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
STRAIT — пролив - international strait
Англо-Русский юридический словарь
SHIMONOSEKI — г. Симоносеки
Англо-Русский географический словарь
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда in desperate strait ≈ в отчаянном положении …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
SHIMONOSEKI, TREATY OF — (April 17, 1895), agreement that concluded the first Sino-Japanese War (189495), which ended in China's defeat. China was obliged to …
Britannica English vocabulary
MOJI — geographical name former city Japan in N Kyushu on Shimonoseki Strait
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BAKAN — geographical name see: Shimonoseki
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SINO-JAPANESE WAR — Either of two conflicts between China and Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first (1894–95), over Korea , …
Английский словарь Британика
KYUSHU — Island (pop., 2001 est.: 13,454,000), southernmost of Japan's four main islands. Located off the eastern coast of Asia, it is …
Английский словарь Британика
KITAKYŪSHŪ — City (pop., 2000 prelim.: 1,011,491), Kyushu , Japan. It was created in 1963 by the amalgamation of several cities. Part …
Английский словарь Британика
MOJI — geographical name former city Japan in N Kyushu on Shimonoseki Strait — see Kitakyushu
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BAKAN — — see Shimonoseki
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YAMAGUCHI — prefecture (ken), extreme western Honshu, Japan, bordered by the Sea of Japan (north), the Shimonoseki-kaikyo (Shimonoseki Strait; southwest), and the …
Britannica English vocabulary
UNEQUAL TREATY — in Chinese history, any of a series of treaties in which China was forced to concede many of its territorial …
Britannica English vocabulary
TOKUYAMA — city, Yamaguchi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It faces Tokuyama Bay of the Inland Sea. A castle town during the early …
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TAKASUGI SHINSAKU — born Sept. 27, 1839, Hagi, Nagato province, Japan died May 17, 1867, Shimonoseki noted Japanese imperial loyalist whose restructuring of …
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SU-CHOU — also called Wu-hsien, Pinyin Suzhou, or Wuxianconventional Soochow city in Kiangsu sheng (province), China. Su-chou controls the Yangtze River delta …
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SINO-JAPANESE WAR — (193745), conflict that broke out when China began full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory (begun …
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SHINKANSEN — (Japanese: New Trunk Line), high-speed rail line between Tokyo and Fukuoka on the Japanese islands of Honshu and Kyushu. The …
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SHANGHAI
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PUSAN — also spelled Busan city, port, and capital of Kyongsang nam do (province), South Korea, at the southeast tip of the …
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MASUDA — city, Shimane ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. It lies in the basin of the Takatsu River, near the Sea of …
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LU-SHUN — Pinyin Lshun, formerly Port Arthur city and naval port in Liaoning sheng (province), China. Situated at the southern tip of …
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KITA-KYUSHU — (Japanese: North Kyushu), city, Fukuoka Prefecture (ken), Kyushu, Japan, on the Shimonoseki and Tsushima straits. It was created in 1963 …
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JAPAN, FLAG OF — national flag consisting of a white field bearing a central red disk (a stylized sun). The flag has a width-to-length …
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