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CHILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
Synonyms:
chile; chili; chili pepper; chilli; chilly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("chile" is a kind of...):
hot pepper (any of various pungent capsicum fruits)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chile"):
jalapeno; jalapeno pepper (hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico)
cayenne; cayenne pepper (a long and often twisted hot red pepper)
Holonyms ("chile" is a part of...):
Capsicum annuum longum; cayenne; cayenne pepper; chili pepper; chilli pepper; jalapeno; long pepper (plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red)
Holonyms ("chile" is a substance of...):
chili powder (powder made of ground chili peppers mixed with e.g. cumin and garlic and oregano)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
South American country; South American nation (any one of the countries occupying the South American continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Chile"):
Ojos del Salado (a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,572 feet high))
Llullaillaco (a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,057 feet high))
Tupungato (a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,310 feet high))
El Muerto (a mountain peak in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (21,457 feet high))
Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)
Tupungatito (an inactive volcano in central Chile; last erupted in 1959)
Lascar (a volcano in the Andes in Chile)
Guallatiri (the world's highest volcano; in the Andes in northern Chile; last erupted in 1959)
Atacama Desert (a desert in western Chile that extends roughly 600 miles south from the Peruvian border; one of the driest areas in the world, but rich in nitrate and copper deposits)
Cape Froward (a cape on the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile; the most southern point on the mainland of South America)
Cape Horn (a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego))
Tierra del Fuego (an archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina)
Vina del Mar (a resort city on the Pacific in central Chile)
Valparaiso (the chief port and second largest city of Chile; located on a wide harbor in central Chile)
Temuco (a city in central Chile to the south of Concepcion)
Punta Arenas (a city in southern Chile on the Strait of Magellan; the southernmost city in the world)
capital of Chile; Gran Santiago; Santiago; Santiago de Chile (the capital and largest city of Chile; located in central Chile; one of the largest cities in South America)
Chiloe (the largest Chilean island and the only one to be settled; located off south-central Chile)
Antofagasta (a port city on the Pacific in northern Chile)
Patagonia (region in southern South America between the Andes and the South Atlantic)
Meronyms (members of "Chile"):
Chilean (a native or inhabitant of Chile)
Domain member region:
Manuel Rodriquez Patriotic Front (a terrorist group formed in 1983 as the armed wing of the Chilean Communist Party)
Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement; Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces; Lautaro Youth Movement (a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths)
Holonyms ("Chile" is a part of...):
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Holonyms ("Chile" is a member of...):
OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)
Derivation:
Chilean (of or relating to or characteristic of Chile or its people)
Context examples:
The research team discovered NGTS-1b using the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), an array of telescopes physically located in Chile, which was designed to search for planets around bright stars.
(Astronomers report dwarf star with unexpectedly giant planet, Wikinews)
National Science Foundation (NSF) provides funding for ALMA, an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
(ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight, National Science Foundation)
Now, NASA researchers have identified the chemical fingerprint of acrylonitrile in Titan data collected by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.
(NASA Finds Moon of Saturn Has Chemical That Could Form ‘Membranes’, NASA)
The planet was identified using the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) observing facility at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
(‘Forbidden’ planet found wandering ‘Neptunian Desert’, University of Cambridge)
He had met a townsman, a couple of years before, in some sailor boarding-house in Chile, so that he knew his mother to be still alive.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They were found in the Atacama Trench off the west coast of Chile and Peru at a depth of nearly 8,000 meters.
(Three New Species of Fish Found at Bottom of Pacific Ocean, VOA)
In coordination with the volcano studies, the agency's C-20A gathered data over Amazonian forests in Peru, agricultural sites in Chile and glaciers on the Chilean/Argentinian border.
(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)
This anomalous behaviour was detected by a worldwide astronomical collaboration including ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
(ESO’s VLT Sees `Oumuamua Getting a Boost, ESO)
In a recently published study, researchers from Washington State University say bacteria, found in the hyper-arid soil of Chile's Atacama Desert, can live dormant for decades, patiently waiting for very rare rainfalls.
(Scientists: Life Can Thrive in Most Extreme Environments, George Putic/VOA)
A team working with ESO’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile has found that the red dwarf star Ross 128 is orbited by a low-mass exoplanet every 9.9 days.
(Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered, ESO)
