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The languages that are spoken in China, especially Mandarin, are often referred to as Chinese. relating to China, its people, or its language. Chinese mustard Chinese cabbage Chinese Communist Party Chinese examination system Chinese languages Chinese law Chinese medicine traditional Chinese writing system

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The logographic writing system shared by this language family

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Tom said he wanted to eat Chinese food. - Tom said that he wanted to eat Chinese food.

I am learning Chinese. - I'm learning Chinese.

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The top of a ridge

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The backbone or spine of an animal; the back

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The spine of an animal

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Variegated, speckled or figured glass GANTAD

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{i} spine, backbone

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The location where the deck joins the hull of the boat

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Portion of the hull where the bottom and sides intersect (can be rounded or angled)

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cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone

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The line where the side and bottom of a v-bottomed boat meet; in a three-point hydroplane, the inclined side of a sponson or the hull

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A more or less sharp corner continuous over a significant part of the boat's length Typically the intersection between the bottom and topside panels

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a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea

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a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull

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To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces

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the inclined side of hull or sponson; also "non-trip "

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A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking

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A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep

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cut through the backbone of an animal

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backbone of an animal

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The intersection of the bottom and sides of a flat or v-bottomed boat

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A line formed by the intersection of the sides and bottom of a flat or v-bottomed vessel

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The edge of the kayak; transition area between hull and deck

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] The edge or rim of a cask, etc

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The intersection of sides and bottom of a boat

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formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave

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the transition where two relatively flat sections of hull meet (usually where the vertical side hull meets the horizontal bottom hull) A good example of a boat with a defined chine is the Arctic Hawk If the edge is less defined but still clearly present the hull is described as soft-chine If there is no defined edge then the kayak is said to have rounded or rounded-V hull, as in the Tchaika

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Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine

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cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone cut through the backbone of an animal

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a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

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of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"

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The language of China, which is monosyllabic

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any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system

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