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  2. Contrabassoon - Wikipedia

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    The contrabassoon is a very deep-sounding woodwind instrument that plays in the same sub-bass register as the tuba, double bass, or contrabass clarinet.It has a sounding range beginning at B ♭ 0 (or A 0, on some instruments) and extending up over three octaves to D 4, though the highest fourth is rarely scored for.

  3. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Spanish escuela alta calques English high school (secundaria or escuela secundaria in Standard Spanish) Spanish grado (de escuela) calques English grade (in school) (nota in Standard Spanish) Spanish manzana de Adán calques English Adam's apple (nuez de Adán, meaning "Adam's nut", in standard Spanish), which in turn is a calque of French ...

  4. Chinese Internet slang - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Baptism (中国式洗礼, Zhōngguóshì xǐlǐ) – The new Chinese government. Baptism (洗礼, xǐlǐ) is a play on words referring to Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang. River crab (河蟹, héxiè) – Pun on héxié (和谐) meaning "harmony". Online Chinese term for Internet censorship commonly seen in forums and blogs. [4]

  5. Contrabass - Wikipedia

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    Contrabass (from Italian: contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchestral string family, tuned lower than the cello), many other instruments in the contrabass register exist.

  6. List of Spanish words of Chinese origin - Wikipedia

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    china = an orange: shortened from naranja china, "Chinese orange," from Portuguese China, from Persian Cin (چین), derived from Sanskrit Cīna (चीन) (c. 1st century), probably from Chinese Qín (秦), Chinese dynasty (221-206 B.C.). For the etymologically unrelated Spanish word china/chino, see here.

  7. Güey - Wikipedia

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    Güey (Spanish pronunciation:; also spelled guey, wey or we) is a word in colloquial Mexican Spanish that is commonly used to refer to any person without using their name. . Though typically (and originally) applied only to males, it can also be used for females (although when using slang, women would more commonly refer to another woman as "chava" [young woman] or "vieja" [old lady])

  8. Sangley - Wikipedia

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    Chinito or Tsinito is a term derived from Spanish and means "a young Chinese man", from Spanish: Chino, lit. 'Chinese' with the diminutive suffix-ito 'male diminutive suffix'. "Tsinito" is the spelling in Tagalog/Filipino and other Philippine languages. Chinita or Tsinita is the feminine form of the above, meaning "a young Chinese woman", also ...

  9. Chinese slang - Wikipedia

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    Chinese slang may refer to: Mandarin Chinese profanity; Cantonese profanity; Diu (Cantonese) Chinese Internet slang This page was last edited on 2 ...