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培
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Definitions
- 1. to bank up with earth
- 2. to cultivate (lit. or fig.)
- 3. to train (people)
Words Containing 培
general culture
cell culture
Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher
hydroponics
ammeter
neper (unit of ratio, Np)
to cultivate
culture medium
to train
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
bacon (loanword)
on-the-job training
cell cultivator
to repair earthworks
Liu Shipei (1884-1919), Chinese anarchist and revolutionary activist
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
forestry
to earth up
ammeter (loanword from \ampere meter\)
Canberra, capital of Australia
Pompeium, Roman town in Bay of Naples destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius in 79
to grow
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician
Tan Xinpei (1847-1917), noted opera actor
microampere (one millionth of amp)
to cultivate
Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), educationist and politician, president of Peking University 1917-27
directed breeding
training class
to grow plants hydroponically
ampere-hour (Ah)
Ngawang Choephel (1966-), Tibetan musicologist and dissident, Fullbright scholar (1993-1994), jailed 1995-2002 then released to US
Perez (name)
ampere (loanword)
to cultivate
Petri dish
Jon Huntsman, Jr. (1960-), US politician, Governor of Utah 2005-2009, Ambassador to China 2009-2011
culture fluid (in biological lab.)
Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war