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Tungting

Meaning of "Tungting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TUNGTING

ˌtʊŋˈtɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TUNGTING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tungting is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TUNGTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dongting Lake

Dongting Lake, or Lake Dongting is a large, shallow lake in northeastern Hu'nan province, China. It is a flood basin of the Yangtze River. Hence the lake's size depends on the season. The provinces of Hubei and Hu'nan are named after their location relative to the lake: Hubei means "North of the Lake" and Hu'nan means "South of the Lake" in Chinese. Dongting Lake is famous in Chinese culture as the place of origin of Dragon boat racing. It is the site of Junshan island, and is a home to the Finless Porpoise, which is endangered in China.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TUNGTING

accounting · acting · computing · connecting · consulting · contrasting · cutting · dating · Dongting · eating · exciting · existing · fighting · frosting · heating · hunting · interesting · lighting · listing · Paoting

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TUNGTING

Tungus · Tungusian · Tungusic · Tunguska · tunic · tunica · tunicate · tunicin · tunicked · tunicle · tuning · tuning fork · tuning key · tuning knob · Tunis · Tunisia · Tunisian

WORDS THAT END LIKE TUNGTING

casting · collecting · Lagting · meeting · operating · painting · posting · printing · putting · rating · reporting · setting · shooting · sitting · sporting · supporting · testing · visiting · waiting · writing

Synonyms and antonyms of Tungting in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Tungting» into 25 languages

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zh

Translator English - Chinese

洞庭湖
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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Tungting
570 millions of speakers
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Tungting
510 millions of speakers
hi

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Tungting
380 millions of speakers
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Tungting
280 millions of speakers
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Tungting
278 millions of speakers
pt

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Tungting
270 millions of speakers
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Tungting
260 millions of speakers
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Tungting
220 millions of speakers
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Tungting
190 millions of speakers
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Tungting
180 millions of speakers
ja

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Tungting
130 millions of speakers
ko

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Tungting
85 millions of speakers
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Tungting
85 millions of speakers
vi

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Tungting
80 millions of speakers
ta

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Tungting
75 millions of speakers
mr

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टंग करणे
75 millions of speakers
tr

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Tungting
70 millions of speakers
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Tungting
65 millions of speakers
pl

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Tungting
50 millions of speakers
uk

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Tungting
40 millions of speakers
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Tungting
30 millions of speakers
el

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Tungting
15 millions of speakers
af

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Tungting
14 millions of speakers
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Tungting
10 millions of speakers
no

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Tungting
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUNGTING»

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Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945
Throughout November 1943, the men of the Twenty-third Fighter Group kept plugging away, strafing at Liuchow Peninsula and intercepting Zeroes at Hengyang and into the Tungting Lake region. The Tungting Lake region, situated in north ...
Cornelius, Wanda
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The Far East
We now turn back to Hunan, the northern boundary of which we skirted on our way, past the Tungting lake, from Shashih to Hankow. The province of Hunan, the third on our list, is mountainous throughout ; it comprises, in all, four river basins,  ...
Archibald John Little, 2010
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A Dutch Spy in China: Reports on the First Phase of the ...
However, they did not continue the pursuit beyond Yochow at the northernmost point of Lake Tungting. The most likely explanation would seem to be that once again the advance had to be halted, when the lake was reached in December, ...
G. (Gerke) Teitler, Kurt Kurt Werner Radtke, 1999
4
???: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse
When their husband died in battle south of Hunan, they drowned themselves where the Hsiang flows through Tungting Lake and became the river's and the lake's resident spirits. Two thousand years later they were joined in the same river by ...
5
The Comacrib Directory of China
Danica — Andersen, Meyer & Co., Rue de Clemenceau. Daiichi — Dai Ichi Yoko, Poyang Road. Decandria — Dodwell & Co., Tungting Road. Decretory — Dodwell & Co., Tungting Road. Dendrite — Dodwell & Co., Tungting Road. Dewarf ...
‎1925
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List of Lighthouses, Light-vessels, Buoys, Beacons, Etc., on ...
In Tungting Lake, 068°, distant 2.1 miles from Triangulation Station " Five." Red spherical buoy Note 1. — In the Yochow, Shasi, Ichang, and Changsha Districts channel sampans are maintained to mark the channels as necessary for daylight  ...
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu, 1948
7
Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Rivers-China T'ung Shui (China) USE Hsiao River (China) Tung-t'ing Hu ( China) USE Tung-t'ing Lake (China) Tung-t'ing Lake (China) UF Tung-t'ing Hu ( China) Tungting Lake (China) BT Lakes-China Tung tree (May Subd Geog) [ SB299.
‎1989
8
The Sand Pebbles
It had been what the Sand Pebbles called the false flood, the Siang's personal flood, which all ran away in a few days into Tungting Lake and hardly wet the bottom. The real flood would come later, when the mighty Yangtze flooded and ...
Richard McKenna, 2010
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The Treaty Ports of China and Japan: A Complete Guide to the ...
But even the Tungting lake theory is not wholly to be depended on, for that body of water lies to the east and south of Hankow, whereas the Pz'n_q-I100, or lake which covers what in winter is called “the plain” and lies to the North and west of  ...
Nicholas Belfield Dennys, 2012
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The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in ...
Below Sha-shih the vast river becomes mixed up with a network of lakes and rivers, connected by canals, the area of the important Tungting lake being over 2000 square miles. The Han alone, with its many affluents and canals, disperses  ...
Isabella Lucy Bird, Isabella Bird, 2010

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUNGTING»

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Kínában védett madarak tucatjait mérgezték meg
Tizenöt telelő hattyút és harmincegy vadkacsát mérgeztek meg a Tungting-tónál a közép-kínai Hunan tartományban. Öt gyanúsítottat a helyszínen őrizetbe ... «http://www.felsofokon.hu, Jan 13»
2
Kihalás szélén a rücskösfarkú disznódelfin
Az idén januárban végzett megfigyelések szerint a Pojangi-tóban már csak 300-400 példány élt, a Tungting-tóban pedig még ennél is kevesebbet, mindössze ... «Greenfo - Zöld Iránytű a Neten, Apr 12»
3
Year of the Takeout: Day 26
Lake Tungting is a place in China's Hunan province where two of the nation's largest rivers convene, a trait that has made the surrounding area very fertile -- and ... «Village Voice, Jan 12»
4
8 Places You Didn't Know Were Open on Christmas Day
Try their Pu Pu platter for two; Lake Tungting-style shrimp sautéed with vegetables; or egg flower soup, which includes silken strands of egg in chicken broth.. «Patch, Dec 10»
REFERENCE
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