Kurdish - English
Definition of zeng in Kurdish English dictionary
- rust
- {n} an oxyd of a metal, or oxygene and a metal combined, calx
- That which resembles rust in appearance or effects
- become destroyed by water, air, or an etching chemical such as an acid; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted"
- When a metal object rusts, it becomes covered in rust and often loses its strength. Copper nails are better than iron nails because the iron rusts
- To contract rust; to be or become oxidized
- preventive paint or primer The first coat of paint applied directly to iron or steel structures to slow down or prevent rust
- Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence
- Rust is sometimes used to describe things that are reddish-brown in colour. turquoise woodwork with accent colours of rust and ochre. to become covered with rust, or to make something become covered in rust
- a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
- A reddish-brown color
- to oxidize, especially of iron or steel
- See Rust joint, below
- As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish
- The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion
- {f} become corroded due to the oxidation of iron, become rusty
- To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction
- any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems caused by a rust fungus a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture become coated with oxide of the color of rust
- To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind
- the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water
- A visible corrosion product consisting of hydrated oxides of iron
English - English
Definition of zeng in English English dictionary
- Zeng Guofan
- or Tseng Kuo-fan born Nov. 26, 1811, Xiangxiang, Hunan province, China died March 12, 1872, Nanjing Chinese military leader most responsible for suppressing the Taiping Rebellion, thus staving off the collapse of the Qing dynasty. Having passed the highest examinations in the Chinese examination system, Zeng entered the Hanlin Academy and worked successfully as a bureaucrat. In 1852 he was asked to help combat the Taiping rebels, who had reached the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) valley and were threatening the dynasty's survival. The imperial troops being weak, Zeng and other members of the scholar-gentry organized local militias. His army seized the rebels' supply areas along the upper Yangtze and besieged and captured their capital, Nanjing, in 1864. In 1865 he was called on to help suppress the Nian Rebellion; a year later he asked that Li Hongzhang take over the campaign. See also Zhang Zhidong