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Definitions
- 1. cloth
- 2. to declare
- 3. to announce
- 4. to spread
- 5. to make known
Example Sentences
1 shown這種鳥被稱為 布 穀鳥。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 布
Papora or Papura, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
canvas (artist's painting surface)
in hemp cloth and with a leather belt
asbestos cloth
cuckoo (Cercococcyx spp.)
Bruges (Dutch Brugge), medieval town in Belgium
Blumberg or Bloomberg (name)
distributed denial of service (DDOS) form of Internet attack
Leibnitz (name)
(bird species of China) Blyth's pipit (Anthus godlewskii)
Alexander Dubček (1921-1992), leader of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969)
lit. deal sincerely and fairly (idiom); frank and open-minded
adhesive plaster
tablecloth
Gibraltar
The Bronx, borough of New York City
Tibullus (55 BC-19 BC), Latin poet
to announce
scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place
to declare
Browne (person name)
Nebraska, US state
unbleached and undyed cloth
Brittany or Bretagne, area of western France
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[kè luó dì yà]
satin
shred
The Bronx, borough of New York City
Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina
rock-paper-scissors (game)
Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou, capital Duyun City 都勻市|都匀市[dū yún shì]
Bristol
Boolean algebra
Rhythm and Blues R&B
Bretton woods conference in 1944 of allied powers, regulating world exchange rates and setting up IMF and world bank
Bryne (City in Rogaland, Norway)
news conference
to deploy surveillance
Brazzaville, capital of Congo
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938), Soviet revolutionary theorist, executed after a show trial in 1937
Ulaanchab, prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia
Shuangjiang Lahu, Va, Blang and Dai autonomous county in Lincang 臨滄|临沧[lín cāng], Yunnan
Holbrook (name)
Lop Nor, former salt lake in Xinjiang, now a salt-encrusted lake bed
Leibniz (name)
Kobe Bryant (1978-2020), Los Angeles Lakers NBA star
Papua New Guinea
Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya on the Zambesi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe
Bridgetown, capital of Barbados
Guanling Buyei and Hmong autonomous county in Anshun 安順|安顺[ān shùn], Guizhou
buffet (loanword)
mascot costume
Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[yī lí hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
to arrange
Baudrillard (name)
Putrajaya, federal administrative territory of Malaysia, south of Kuala Lumpur city 吉隆坡市
posting on a bulletin board
William Bradley \Brad\ Pitt (1963-), US actor and film producer
Bay of Biscay (Spanish: Mare Cantabrico)
normal distribution (in statistics)
canvas
Brownian motion
Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture in Guizhou, capital Xingyi city 興義市|兴义市
cloth
distributed architecture
to release
gingham
Bristol Channel in southwest England
the three Punic Wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage
Potala, winter palace of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
The Bronx, borough of New York City
Buji River, tributary of Shenzhen or Shamchun River 深圳河[shēn zhèn hé], Guangdong
Budd-Chiari syndrome
machine-operated stage scenery
screen (movie theater etc)
Newfoundland and Labrador, province of Canada
dish cloth
Madeleine Albright (1937-), former US Secretary of State
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abu Sayyaf, militant Islamist separatist group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya
rag doll
Noord Brabant, Netherlands
(theater) curtain
FDDI
pudding (loanword)
Brzezinski (name)
tarpaulin
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
New Hampshire, US state
Ibuprofen or Nurofen
distributed network
Brown (name)
flannel
hot compress
distributed
sermon
disperser
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia
Innsbruck, city in Austria
Bren gun, British light machine gun first produced in 1937
lit. to cover sb's mouth with cloth
Budai (the Laughing Buddha)
zebra tilapia
cloth (by the yard)
snake halberd
(baseball) setup man
plum (loanword)
tablecloth
bourgeois (loanword)
to spread
Braşov, Romania
integrated wiring
to spread
Rahab (name)
Ebro river (in northeast Spain)
sackcloth
(stage) set
Wimbledon (district of southwest London)
Brighton, town in England
Kabul, capital of Afghanistan
bushman (African ethnic group)
Zimbabwe
Kampot, town in Cambodia, capital of Kampot Province
Bhutto (name)
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
cascade
Grenoble (French town)
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[kè luó dì yà]
Dan Brown (American novelist)
Bratislava
Strait of Gibraltar
Buchenwald
sail cloth
brucellosis (undulant fever or Mediterranean fever)
Wimbledon
Bunyavirus
to declare bankruptcy
Aubrey (name)
cappuccino (loanword)
Burkina Faso
cloth shoes
Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet
Schwab (name)
hemp cloth
Hobbs (name)
Bloomsbury, London district
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant
Blackburn
Bloemfontein
Babuyan Archipelago in Luzon Strait north of the Philippines
Huangguoshu waterfalls, Anshun 安順|安顺[ān shùn], Guizhou
Brucella (infectious disease)
Taiwan equivalent of 布什[bù shí]
Zeebrugge (port city in Belgium)
Zaheeruddin Babur (1483-1530), first ruler of Mughal dynasty of India
to put in order
Rinbung county, Tibetan: Rin spungs rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
Cantabria in north Spain
denim
to display
pall (casket covering)
Labrador, Canada
cleaning rag
Kubrick
Bokhara or Bukhara city in Uzbekistan
canvas shoes
to catch on cloth (e.g. of a zip fastener)
Blacksmith (name)
Brest, westernmost town in France
cotton cloth
blues (music) (loanword)
Hoboksar Mongol autonomous county or Qobuqsar Mongghul aptonom nahiyisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区[tǎ chéng dì qū], Xinjiang
Branson or Brandsen (name)
Wimbledon Championships (tennis)
Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[yī lí hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
cappuccino (loanword)
to dye cloth
arrangement
diaper
Braille (name)
Bujumbura, capital of Burundi
Rinbung county, Tibetan: Rin spungs rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
kelp
distributed control
Lake Bled, glacial lake amid the Julian Alps in Slovenia, adjacent to the town of Bled
Cantabria, Spanish autonomous region, capital Santander 桑坦德[sāng tǎn dé]
light cotton fabric
George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and inventor of Boolean algebra
brownie (pastry) (loanword)
a cloth
Blair (name)
cloth, silk, beans and grain
Nebuchadnezzar
Cristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
to cover the whole (area)
Wimbledon
Janjanbureh river and city in Gambia
Brussels, capital of Belgium
(bird species of China) Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum)
to spread; to propagate; to disseminate
Mt Potala in Lhasa, with Potala Palace 布達拉宮|布达拉宫
to scatter
Britney, Brittney or Brittany (name)
scatter diagram
rain tarp
to lay out a defense
to disseminate
Abkhazia, region in Georgia
Bush (name)
Bob Dylan, American folk singer (1941-)
to deploy troops
Burqin county or Burchin nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区[ā lè tài dì qū], Xinjiang
Brucella vaccine
linen
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brook (name)
Muhammad Naguib (1901-1984), first president of the Republic of Egypt
homespun cloth
Abuja, capital of Nigeria
Bradford, city in West Yorkshire, England
(Hong Kong) to filibuster
Brittany Murphy (1977-2009), American actress
Poisson distribution (in statistics)
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[kè luó dì yà]
(loanword) crème brûlée
Fulbright (scholarship)
Istanbul, Turkey
Casablanca (Morocco's economic capital)
Blagoveshchensk, Russian city on the border with China, administrative center of Amur Oblast 阿穆爾州|阿穆尔州[ā mù ěr zhōu]
Buyei ethnic group
Ulaanchab, prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia
goblin (loanword)
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996
Bugatti (name)
Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia
cloth and silk
Timbuctoo (town and historical cultural center in Mali, a World Heritage site)
Antigua and Barbuda
plain white cloth
Brindisi, port city on southeast heel of Italy
kibbutz
Tunmi Sanghuzha (6th century AD), originator of the Tibetan script
Bolshevik
advancing all the time
Amminadab (name)
Songtsen Gampo or Songzain Gambo (604-650) Tibetan emperor, founder of the Tubo 吐蕃[tǔ bō] dynasty
Budapest, capital of Hungary
to progressively extend (service delivery, network etc) to a wider area
ancient tax in the form of bales of cloth
(textiles) mesh fabric; tulle
Bushehr Province of southern Iran, bordering on the Persian Gulf
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia
ragdoll (cat breed)
Brutus (name)
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996
swab
ruble (Russian currency) (loanword)
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina
to spread
Nebraska, US state
Norbulingka (Tibetan: precious garden), summer residence of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
to lay mines
to spread far and wide
Forbes (US publisher)
stuffed toy; rag doll
Burundi
Calabria, southernmost Italian province
bulgur (loanword)
Blang people, one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the PRC
cloth bag
Cottbus (city in Germany)
Gongbo'gyamda county, Tibetan: Kong po rgya mda' rdzong, in Nyingchi prefecture 林芝地區|林芝地区[lín zhī dì qū], Tibet
plain cotton clothing
Lindeblatt (name)
Butuo county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[liáng shān yí zú zì zhì zhōu], south Sichuan
diaper rash
woven cloth
bubble wrap
(math.) normal distribution
Brutus (name)
shroud
creator god of the Zhuang minority 壯族|壮族[zhuàng zú]
Zhenning Buyei and Hmong autonomous county in Anshun 安順|安顺[ān shùn], Guizhou
disposable diaper
Bayanbulak grasslands in Uldus basin of Tianshan mountains
glove puppetry
Britney Spears (1981-), US pop singer
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea
Djibouti
Brest, town in Belarus
rock-paper-scissors (hand game)
Brian (name)
Bucharest, capital of Romania
loincloth
Hoboksar Mongol autonomous county or Qobuqsar Mongghul aptonom nahiyisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区[tǎ chéng dì qū], Xinjiang
hops
distributed environment (computing)
New Hampshire, US state
wiring
loom
Budai or Putai Town in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县[jiā yì xiàn], west Taiwan
Örebro (city in Sweden)
bulletin board
Cantabrian mountain range in north Spain dividing Asturias from Castilla-Leon
to be covered with
to prepare to meet the enemy head-on
Tibetan government official
Bunun, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Saarbrücken, capital of Saarland, Germany
gauze
Buffalo, New York state
to issue
frequency distribution
Pol Pot (1925-1998), Cambodian communist leader
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)
Dubrovnik (city in Croatia)
Ebro River (in northeast Spain)
Mt Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus Mountains
Bushwick, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, in New York City
Brno, city in Czech Republic
Brittany (France)
Telok Blangah, a place in Singapore
Gongbo'gyamda county, Tibetan: Kong po rgya mda' rdzong, in Nyingchi prefecture 林芝地區|林芝地区[lín zhī dì qū], Tibet
Butuo county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[liáng shān yí zú zì zhì zhōu], south Sichuan
Jobs (name)
bulletin board
the tomb of Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo or Songzain Gambo in Lhoka prefecture
Hapsburg (European dynasty)
medical dressing
Dana (Buddhist practice of giving)
news conference
minelayer (ship)
woman's dress (loanword from Russian)
varnished cloth
Lü Bu (-198), general and warlord
cappuccino coffee
to arrange
bean bag round
cuckoo
printed cloth
waterfall
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
Niagara Falls
gauze mask
rag
Thimphu, capital of Bhutan
Prague, capital of Czech Republic
Sarah Brightman (1960-), English pop star
to cover densely
Qobto or Kobdo, khanate of outer Mongolia
Debrecen, Hungary's second city, capital of Hajdú-Bihar county 豪伊杜·比豪爾州|豪伊杜·比豪尔州[háo yī dù · bì háo ěr zhōu] in east Hungary on the border with Romania
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
mop
Bristol port city in southwest England
Huangguoshu falls, Anshun 安順|安顺[ān shùn], Guizhou
Brønnøysund (city in Nordland, Norway)
Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[yī lí hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
tarpaulin
Burqin county or Burchin nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区[ā lè tài dì qū], Xinjiang
Ziyun Hmong and Buyei autonomous county in Anshun 安順|安顺[ān shùn], Guizhou