Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A traditional Chinese measure of distance, today standardized at 500 meters (547 yards).
- abbr. link (measurement)
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Chinese weight, equal to the one thousandth part of a liang or ounce. A li of silver is nominally equal to the copper coin called a cash by Europeans in China, and rin by the Japanese.
- n. A Chinese mile, equal to rather more than one third of an English mile, 27⅘ li being equal to 10 miles.
- n. The chemical symbol of lithium.
Wiktionary
- n. Chinese philosophy A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.
- n. An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.
- n. A traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to one-thousandth of a liang, or fifty milligrams.
- n. A traditional Chinese unit of distance, now standardized to 500 metres.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A Chinese measure of distance, being a little more than one third of a mile.
- n. A Chinese copper coin; a cash. See Cash.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals
- n. Chinese distance measure; approximately 0.5 kilometers
- adj. being one more than fifty
Etymologies
- From Mandarin 里 (lǐ). (Wiktionary)
- Chinese (Mandarin) lǐ. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For example: _Kiu ajn li estas, ne parolu al li_, whoever he be, do not speak to him.”
“But he heard it very well: -- "_Bon-Dié, li conm vent ... li ka touché nou ... nou pa save ouè li_.”
“Below the two lines of the text there are two more lines: _li g�chi (giunchi) che rit�g� le paglucole (pagliucole) chelli (che li) anniegano_.] 700.”
“Below the two lines of the text there are two more lines: _li gùchi (giunchi) che ritégò le paglucole (pagliucole) chelli (che li) anniegano_.] 700.”
“L Ralph on Aug 1, 2008 the fact that kristin plays the role of chun li is enough reason for me to be excited!! im a smallville fan too. myka on Sep 7, 2008”
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“One li is about a third of a mile, although sometimes in early Chinese texts it was descriptive. back”
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“Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's narcissist-Leninist president, surprised precisely no one last week when he coyly gave his supporters "permission" to petition for a referendum to abolish presidential term li ...”
“Challenges still exist, of course, including cold temperature performance (mentioned here), as well as life span, robustness & abuse tolerance, the more sophisticated electronics needed to maintain li-ion cells, and the initial costs of the batteries and battery packs before production can be ramped up to a scale that will bring prices down.”
“Normally the Büüli is eaten with the St. Galler sausage.”
“He sometimes referred to this tradition with the phrase li-yi, “rituals and duties,” emphasizing two of its central aspects.”
Lists
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Leibniz
Anything to do with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
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Words Made Of Roman Numerals
dividivi, cimicic, civic, civil, idic, dill, livid, mild, ilicic, vivid, clim, imidic and 43 more...
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Chemical Element Abbreviations
Name Sym # Wt
actinium Ac 89 (227)
aluminum Al 13 26.98
americium Am 95 (243)
antimony Sb 51 121.7
argon Ar 18 39.94
arsenic As 33 74.92
asta...zr, zn, yb, y, xe, w, v, uuu, uut, uus, uuq, uup and 108 more...
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fabula's Words
fabulas, pasadizo, laberinto, amazónica, libritos, manzana, ilustración, ilustraciones, trazos, tiralíneas, eufenismo, cinemateca and 217 more...
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
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HTML Tags
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a, abbr, acronym, address, applet, area, article, aside, audio, b, base, basefont and 108 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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en chantant la gamme
the gamut of solfege and the Indian sargam
do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, sa, ga, ma, pa, dha and 14 more...
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legitimate scrabble words
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qua, id, el, la, ti, qat, ka, aah, aal, ae, aha, cel and 13 more...
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Scrabble
aa, oot, amidic, spue, os, dex, ab, fa, id, exequy, muumuu, sei and 8 more...
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OSPD4 two-letter words
za, ye, ya, xu, xi, wo, we, ut, us, up, un, um and 88 more...
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lily
vanity
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oroboros Li. Chemical element symbol for Lithium. Dec 15, 2007