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chao

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for chao.

Editorial note

Like Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, Samuel Chao Chung Ting, Shing-Tung Yau, Steven Chu, and Daniel Tsui?

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname from Chinese.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of chao gathered in one view.

noun

A surname from Chinese.

noun

Zhao (state)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for chao.

noun

A surname from Chinese.

noun

Zhao (state)

Example sentences

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Like Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, Samuel Chao Chung Ting, Shing-Tung Yau, Steven Chu, and Daniel Tsui?

2

For a more recent example, Manu Chao also samples a lot from similar sources, like radio ads, movies and political speeches (usually in Spanish).

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Mottelson, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Roy Glauber, Walter Kohn, Samuel Chao Chung Ting} 2) Eugene Wigner->John Bardeen->J.

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From March of this year: Chao said that he’d once held high hopes that the exchanges would run smoothly from the beginning, but that those hopes had been dashed.

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You know: (1) Paper box (2) Disposable chopsticks (3) Fujian/Guangdong style egg (yellow) noodles (4) Canto-Americanisms like 'chop suey' (Mandarin 'chao cai') and 'dim sum' (Mandarin 'dian xin') and such.

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@ch0wn: I'm pretty sure that chao- was talking about the implementation of keyword arguments, not refinements.

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Like the events of 1893 when the French sailed two gunboats up the Chao Phraya river, aimed their guns at the royal palace, and said we're taking everything east of the Mekhong River.

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[0] Fabricio Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Chao Zhang, and Keith Ross.

9

If I were tasked with stripping this country/world of all remaining freedom, I'd surely let bullshit like this proliferate in ordo ab chao mode, where the exact line between ordo and chao is only known to me and my henchmen, and just wait till defeated enjoyers of miserable remnants of said freedom crouch begging me to rob them of that chaos-inducing freedom.

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This reminds me of a comment[0] by a math grad student, Chao Xu, who extended markdown documents parsed by pandoc to ennumerate Proofs, Lemmas, etc., leading to blog posts that feel like part of a math text.

Quote examples

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"obscure" to summer hit would be someone like Manu Chao that went from "never placed a song" to 189 weeks in european charts instantly.

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“The time for debating about the size of the text on the screen, or the color, or is it a world-class user experience, that’s what we used to talk about two years ago,” said Chao.

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Imagine I showed my secretary a text from my wife, reading, "Can we eat at Fogo de Chao, and then go see Mad Max?" I ask my secretary where the closest Fogo is, to help me book a reservation, and then to find showtimes and ratings for the movie.

Proper noun examples

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In +850 came a short tractate which was to be famous, Lu Chao’s Hat Chhao Fu (Essay on the Tides).

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I think there was sometime that drowned that was, Angela Chao, sister of former U.

3

Zhao Jianjun is known in the US as Jeffery Chao.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use chao in a sentence?

Like Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, Samuel Chao Chung Ting, Shing-Tung Yau, Steven Chu, and Daniel Tsui?

What does chao mean?

A surname from Chinese.

What part of speech is chao?

chao is commonly used as noun.