English words for 'Alternative spelling of Tainan.'
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- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- A tinge, trace or touch.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
- the state of being contaminated
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- (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
- (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
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- (historical) Synonym of Tainan, a city of Taiwan, former capital of Taiwan Province.
- (law) A province of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (from 1945).
- An island between the Taiwan Strait and Philippine Sea in East Asia.
- (historical) A former prefecture of Fujian province in China (Qing Empire) (1683–1885).
- (astronomy) 2169 Taiwan, a main belt asteroid.
- (historical) A former province of China (Qing Empire) (1885–1895).
- (law) The territory currently under the de facto jurisdiction of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
- (historical) A former dependency of Japan (1895–1945).
- A partly-recognized country in East Asia consisting of a main island and 167 smaller islands. Official name: Republic of China. Capital: Taipei.
- (disputed) A claimed province of the People's Republic of China (from 1949).
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