ming
IPA: mˈɪŋ
noun
- (Britain, Ireland) A mixture.
- (Britain, Lincolnshire, obsolete, land) The state of being under mixed ownership; land under mixed ownership, particularly without physical demarcations designating ownership.
- (Confucianism) Destiny, fate.
- A member of the Ming dynasty
- A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Yuan to the beginning of the Qing (Ching)
- A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China, as well as parts of Russia and northern Vietnam
- The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned
- The pottery of the era, famed for its high quality
- A surname.
- A male or female given name
verb
- (now rare) To mix, blend, mingle.
- (obsolete) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
- (UK, Ireland, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
- (Britain, Ireland, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
- (Britain, Ireland, slang) To be foul-smelling.
- (transitive, obsolete) To speak of, to mention.
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Examples of "ming" in Sentences
- When they eat the heart [of plants], they are called ming
- Choose 'ming', get 'brown', - now where have I heard that before ?
- My (very) humble efforts this week: in 'ming' - closed as no longer occurred.
- Mr. Raymond T. Moyer, writing from Taiku, Shansi, reports that farmers there know as ming a stem borer of rice and of millet.
- Links to this post novruz break sheep and a broken down ferris wheel in ming our reservoir at the hotel riverside in ... checking out the rowing competition
- he didn't call ming the leader of the opposition. listen again. he said it was funny that the leader of the opposition cameron hadn't mentioned transferable tax allowances.
- The party congress declared that most of these enterprises—as many as a hundred thousand—would be divorced from the state and operated on the principle of what is sometimes called ming ying—“people-owned companies.”
- On the other hand, the video shows that bloggers, online communities etc. and amazon-like models combining to form a similar environment stemming from a grassroots level, but which parallels the condition of top-down media.
- There are three "mountain fingers" in azerbaijan. these are mountain areas that jut either northward or westward and are somewhat separated from azerbaijan's mainland (ming is in the mainland closest to the sheki -- zaqatala finger). it appears mostly CEDs live in the quba-sizayan finger and so i got pst reminisce, talk shop, and eat burittos. ain't nothing wrong with that.
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