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Irregular inflected forms: japanned , japanning
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("japan" is a kind of...):
lacquer (a hard glossy coating)
Derivation:
japan (coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("japan" is a kind of...):
lacquerware (a decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals)
Derivation:
japan (coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
Synonyms:
Japan; Japanese Archipelago; Japanese Islands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Japan"):
Ezo; Hokkaido; Yezo (the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu)
Hondo; Honshu (the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland)
Kyushu (the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields)
Shikoku (the smallest of the four main islands of Japan; to the south of Honshu and to the east of Kyushu; separated from Honshu by the Inland Sea; forested and mountainous)
Osaka Bay (a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu)
Holonyms ("Japan" is a part of...):
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Japan"):
Omiya (a city of east central Honshu; a suburb of Tokyo)
Osaka (port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center of Japan)
Yokohama (port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan)
Naha City (the chief city in the Ryukyu Islands)
Ryukyu Islands (a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972))
Kyoto (a city in central Japan on southern Honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of Japan)
Sapporo (a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido)
Kitakyushu (a Japanese city on northern Kyushu)
Fukuoka (a city in southern Japan on Kyushu)
Nagasaki (a city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb)
Toyohashi (a Japanese city in southern Honshu on the Pacific shore)
Toyonaki (a Japanese city in southern Honshu; main residential suburb of Osaka)
Toyota (an industrial city of Japan in southern Honshu)
Kammon Strait Bridge (a suspension bridge between Kyushu and Honshu)
Asama; Mount Asama (a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (8,340 feet))
Volcano Islands (a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas)
Iwo Jima (the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan)
Fuji; Fuji-san; Fujinoyama; Fujiyama; Mount Fuji (an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages)
Nagoya (an industrial city in southern Honshu)
Nagano (a city in central Honshu to the northwest of Tokyo; site of a Buddhist shrine)
capital of Japan; Edo; Japanese capital; Tokio; Tokyo; Yeddo; Yedo (the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan)
Asahikawa (a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area)
Meronyms (members of "Japan"):
Japanese; Nipponese (a native or inhabitant of Japan)
Domain member region:
Ozawa; Seiji Ozawa (United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935))
kamikaze (a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash)
koto player (a musician who plays the koto)
sumo wrestler (a wrestler who participates in sumo (a Japanese form of wrestling))
yakuza (a Japanese gangster)
Esaki; Leo Esaki (physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925))
hara-kiri; harakiri; harikari; seppuku (ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society)
sumo (a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground)
go; go game (a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters)
shogi (a form of chess played on a board of 81 squares; each player has 20 pieces)
acupressure; G-Jo; shiatsu (treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body)
jiujitsu; jujitsu; jujutsu (a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength)
ninjitsu; ninjutsu (the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage)
karate (a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat (in Japanese, karate means 'empty hand'); sharp blows and kicks are given to pressure-sensitive points on the body of the opponent)
origami (the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds))
chanoyu; tea ceremony (an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea)
futon (mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame)
kamikaze (a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II)
shoji (a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper)
Shingon (a form of Buddhism emphasizing mystical symbolism of mantras and mudras and the Buddha's ideal which is inexpressible)
prefecture (the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire))
diet (a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan))
yakuza (organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises)
Anti-Imperialist International Brigade; Japanese Red Army; JRA (a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists)
Chukaku-Ha (an ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party; includes a covert action wing)
Aum; Aum Shinrikyo; Supreme Truth (a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity)
rice beer; sake; saki (Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot)
tempura (vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried)
sushi (rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed)
sashimi (very thinly sliced raw fish)
sukiyaki (thin beef strips (or chicken or pork) cooked briefly at the table with onions and greens and soy sauce)
wasabi (the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish; in powder or paste form it is often eaten with raw fish)
miso (a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces)
Ryukyuan (the language (related to Japanese) that is spoken by the people of the Ryukyu Islands)
Japanese (the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese)
Holonyms ("Japan" is a part of...):
Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "japan" is one way to...):
lacquer (coat with lacquer)
Domain category:
handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
japan (lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient)
japan (lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer)
Context examples:
In the study, published in the journal Science Advances, scientists grew 18 varieties of rice in fields in China and Japan.
(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)
There are only a handful of hydrogen-powered cars in Australia, but there are tens of thousands across Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)
Studying life around deep-sea hydrothermal vents near Japan's island of Okinawa, microbiologists led by a team from the University of Vienna found that certain microbes thrive in conditions similar to those on Enceladus.
(Scientists: Life Can Thrive in Most Extreme Environments, George Putic/VOA)
While much of the world's population is susceptible to damaging earthquakes, the systems are currently operating in only a few regions around the globe, including Japan and Mexico.
(Crowdsourced Smartphone Data Could Give Advance Notice for People in Quake Zones, JPL)
“With the right conditions, planets could be formed even in harsh environments, such as around a black hole,” said Keiichi Wada, a professor at Kagoshima University in Japan.
(Thousands of Planets Could Be Orbiting around Black Holes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The research group led by Yoichiro Yamamoto and Go Kimura, in collaboration with a number of university hospitals in Japan, adopted an approach called "unsupervised learning."
(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"This is the first detection of an intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the Milky Way galaxy," said the study's leader, Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, Japan.
(Astronomers Find New Evidence for Long-theorized Mid-sized Black Holes, VOA News)
A discovery of well-preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed researchers to identify a distant relative of the living plant Ginkgo biloba.
(Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba, NSF)
The Cambridge researchers, working with colleagues in Costa Rica and Japan, used high-quality layers of PST with metallic electrodes sandwiched in between.
(Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners, University of Cambridge)
The scientists based their findings on observations by the Subaru Telescope, atop the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, which is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)
