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Yangtze

ˈjæŋktˈsi
WordNet
  1. (n) Yangtze
    the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai
Usage in the news

A group of critically endangered Chinese alligators, born at the Bronx Zoo and reintroduced to the Yangtze River, have produced 15 hatchlings on their native turf. cs.org

An unprecedented rash of looting is following in the wake of construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the middle reaches of China's Yangtze River. archaeology.org

Up the Yangtze — Filmmaker's Website Find out about the filmmaking team, watch an interview with the filmmaker and see if the film is screening in your area. pbs.org

The Yu family is displaced by the Yangtze . metcruz.com

' Yangtze ' doc shows us the cost paid by the children of the dam. metcruz.com

Yung Chang's documentary 'Up the Yangtze ' shows us the cost paid by the children of the dam. metcruz.com

Up the Yangtze Directed by Yung Chang Zeitgeist Films Opens April 25, IFC Center. villagevoice.com

Pollution Leaves Beloved Dolphin Of Yangtze 'Functionally' Extinct. ashingtonpost.com

Such was the case after our first commercial kayak descent on the Great Bend of the Yangtze River, in China's Yunnan Province. canoekayak.com

On the Yangtze With The Hatfields and McCoys. nytimes.com

Trucks dump rocks into the Yangtze to close a final section of the dike designed to reroute the river. ashingtonpost.com

5 Million Fight Yangtze Flood. cbsnews.com

As Yangtze River dam rises, questions arise. cnn.com

The Yangtze River is the largest and most powerful river in China. cnn.com

IT is at dawn that the murky waters of the Yangtze River are most mysterious. nytimes.com

Usage in scientific papers

This research has been supported in part by the Tsinghua Centre for Astrophysics (THCA), by the NSFC grants 10373009 and 10533020 at Tsinghua University, and by the SRFDP 20050003088 and the Yangtze Endowment from the Ministry of Education at Tsinghua University.
Self-Similar Polytropic Champagne Flows in H II Regions

Usage in literature

Yet even the Yangtze-kiang has a source. "Kai Lung's Golden Hours" by Ernest Bramah

From there we should have to enter the Dominion of Kuku Nor and then work on southward to the head waters of the Yangtze River. "Beasts, Men and Gods" by Ferdinand Ossendowski

Strangely enough, although there are dozens of villages along the Yangtze and the valley is highly cultivated, we saw no sign of fishing. "Camps and Trails in China" by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews

To speak in detail only of the one at Hankow, six hundred miles up the Yangtze, we found it to be the largest structure in the city. "Our Vanishing Wild Life" by William T. Hornaday

Hankow means literally Han Mouth, being situated at the juncture of the Han River and the Yangtze. "Across China on Foot" by Edwin Dingle

England sought to obtain a monopoly of the railways in the Yangtze valley. "The Problem of China" by Bertrand Russell

Huan Hsuean had to flee, and in his flight he was killed in the upper Yangtze region. "A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]" by Wolfram Eberhard

The bottom-lands of the Mississippi and the Yangtze Rivers are among the chief food-producing regions of the world. "Commercial Geography" by Jacques W. Redway

Dozens of apparently seaworthy boats have gone up the Yangtze-Kiang, not to return. "Peter the Brazen" by George F. Worts

The Yangtze is the third largest river in the world and navigable 400 miles beyond Hankow, or 1000 miles in all. "Where Half The World Is Waking Up" by Clarence Poe