Sun Yixian
— Noun
– English
～ Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925)
South Yorkshire
— Noun
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～ a metropolitan county in northern England
siege of Yorktown
— Noun
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～ in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution
Sir James Young Simpson
— Noun
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～ Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)
Strauss the Younger
— Noun
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～ Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899)
sincerely yours
— Adverb
– English
～ written formula for ending a letter
second battle of Ypres
— Noun
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～ battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
spoonleaf yucca
— Noun
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～ yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub
— Noun
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～ sultan of Syria and Egypt; reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193)
Simon the Zealot
— Noun
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～ one of the twelve Apostles (first century)
Simon Zelotes
— Noun
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～ one of the twelve Apostles (first century)
Sansevieria zeylanica
— Noun
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～ plant having thick fibrous leaves transversely banded in light and dark green
sign of the zodiac
— Noun
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～ (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
Seriola zonata
— Noun
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～ fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters
safety zone
— Noun
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～ a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians
South Temperate Zone
— Noun
– English
～ Temperate Zone between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn
South Frigid Zone
— Noun
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～ the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters
strike zone
— Noun
– English
～ (baseball) the area over home plate between a batter's knees and shoulders through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike
subclass Zoomastigina
— Noun
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～ in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; holozoic or saprozoic flagellates
Stefan Zweig
— Noun
– English
～ Austrian writer (1881-1942)