Wei

[ wey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any of several dynasties that ruled in North China, especially one ruling a.d. 220–265 and one ruling a.d. 386–534.

Wei’s team measured the timing and intensity of the reflected waves.

Harvard’s Hanage is yet to be convinced that Wei, the Huanan vendor—rather than Chen—was the first documented covid patient.

Smoke-related aerosols might affect the skin in different ways, Wei says.

Wei and others looked at visits to UCSF dermatology clinics over an 18-week period, starting in October 2018.

Wei wonders if the same strategy will work on other types as well.

So, to placate his parents, he decides to marry Wei-Wei (May Chin), a penniless Chinese opera singer in his building.

The Wen Wei Po article contains a nugget that tells us why Beijing wanted to get back at the regime in Pyongyang.

What is intriguing with this dog-bites-man story, however, is that it started with Wen Wei Po.

Whatever the outcome, Ravi's and Wei's punishments will rightly continue.

Ravi and Wei were both over 18 when their crime was committed, but they were still teens.

Britain was unable to resist the imitative impulse, and seized the port of Wei-hai-wei .

Wei Chang was not in reality a worker in the art of applying coloured designs to porcelain at all.

"Doubtless several gong-strokes will intervene before his returning footsteps gladden our expectant vision," replied Wei Chang.

"In a state of actuality, they are of measurably less dignified dimensions," suggested Wei Chang.

"Sun Wei, All-knowing One," murmured an attending spirit beneath his breath.

April 21, 2024absquatulate

[ab-skwoch-uh-leyt ]

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