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  2. Fan (Daoism) - Wikipedia

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    An early example of this first meaning is the c. 300 BCE Guodian Chu Slips manuscript entitled Taiyi Shengshui (太一生水, The Great One Generated Water), which states that Water, after being generated, returns (fan) to the Great One (Taiyi) [水反輔大一] to assist it in forming Heaven.

  3. Swell (ocean) - Wikipedia

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    The uninterrupted distance of open water over which the wind blows without significant change in direction (called the fetch) Width of water surface in the fetch; Wind duration – the time over which the wind has blown over the fetch; Water depth; A wave is described using the following dimensions: Wave height (from trough to crest)

  4. Sentence word - Wikipedia

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    and "No." as examples of sentence words. [1] The Dutch linguist J. M. Hoogvliet described sentence words as "volzinwoorden". [2] They were also noted in 1891 by Georg von der Gabelentz, whose observations were extensively elaborated by Hoogvliet in 1903; he does not list "Yes." and "No." as sentence words. Wegener called sentence words ...

  5. Inversion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In the locative inversion example, isikole, "school" acts as the subject of the sentence while semantically remaining a locative argument rather than a subject/agent one. Moreover, we can see that it is able to trigger subject-verb agreement as well, further indicating that it is the syntactic subject of the sentence.

  6. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

  7. Negative inversion - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, negative inversion is one of many types of subject–auxiliary inversion in English.A negation (e.g. not, no, never, nothing, etc.) or a word that implies negation (only, hardly, scarcely) or a phrase containing one of these words precedes the finite auxiliary verb necessitating that the subject and finite verb undergo inversion. [1]

  8. Lee shore - Wikipedia

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    Its opposite, the shore on the windward side of the vessel, is called the weather or windward shore (/ ˈ w ɪ n ər d / or, more commonly, / ˈ w ɪ n d w ər d /). Because of the danger of being driven aground on a lee shore it is essential seamanship to treat one with caution. This is particularly the case with sailing vessels, but a lee ...

  9. Inversion (meteorology) - Wikipedia

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    A warmer air mass moving over a cooler one can "shut off" any convection which may be present in the cooler air mass: this is known as a capping inversion. However, if this cap is broken, either by extreme convection overcoming the cap or by the lifting effect of a front or a mountain range, the sudden release of bottled-up convective energy ...