Wu

[ woo ]

/ wu /

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noun

a dynasty that ruled in China a.d. 222–80.

a Chinese language having several dialects, spoken widely in Anhwei, Chekiang, and Kiangsu provinces and including the dialect of Shanghai.

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Words nearby Wu

wt., WTC, WTF, WTG, WTO, Wu, Wuchang, wud, Wu Di, wudjula, wudu

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How to use Wu in a sentence

Before Norwest, Wu worked in Amazon’s corporate development team, Bessemer Venture Partners and founded BANZAI, which brought food focused on quality and nutrition to schools.
How to ace the 1-hour, and ever-elusive, pitch presentation at TC Early Stage|Natasha Mascarenhas|February 26, 2021|TechCrunch
For their paper, Makridis and Wu used a social capital index previously developed by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee.
Researchers identify social factors inoculating some communities against coronavirus|Christopher Ingraham|February 11, 2021|Washington Post
One was that, as Wu’s team had seen, the disease was spreading about twice as fast as SARS had.
The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic|Jordana Cepelewicz|January 28, 2021|Quanta Magazine
It’s an issue that plagues many founders—and is one Wu intimately understands.
Stripe invests in a Carta competitor, Pulley|Lucinda Shen|October 21, 2020|Fortune

Wu, who had also worked on the Manhattan Project, proved that wasn’t the case.
A Nobel Pursuit Gone Wrong?|Tracy Moran|October 11, 2020|Ozy
But, keeping Wu Tun and his t-shirts in mind, how serious is Jack Ma about putting customers first?
Alibaba’s Dark Side: Censoring Customers|Brendon Hong|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the eyes of Wu, the test should already be out in the field, despite a lack of 100 percent proof.
This New Ebola Test Is As Easy As a Pregnancy Test, So Why Aren’t We Using It?|Abby Haglage|October 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Do you have a favorite Wu-Tang memory—any crazy shenanigans you got into?
Method Man Talks Wu-Tang Clan Reunion, Fake Rappers, and the Suge Knight Shooting|Marlow Stern|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Who would picture Wu-Tang doing slapstick comedy in primetime on Fox?
Method Man Talks Wu-Tang Clan Reunion, Fake Rappers, and the Suge Knight Shooting|Marlow Stern|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Wu answered one about whether he would prefer to fight 100 “duck-sized Gov. Cuomos, or one Gov. Cuomo-sized duck.”
Can New York Democrat Zephyr Teachout Stop Governor Andrew Cuomo?|David Freedlander|August 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With great deliberation and much formality Wu-pom Nai proceeded to loosen the boy's heavy plaits of hair.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
She'd think as little of coaxing a woman's husband from her, as she wu'd of shooting a thief like a doorg.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie
Between us and the distant cliffs are the strangely carved and pinnacled rocks of the Toom pin wu-near Tu-weap.
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No. 3, October 1899|Various
With an army capable in size and invincible in determination, the ever-victorious Wu Sien is marching to your aid.
Kai Lung's Golden Hours|Ernest Bramah
At that moment Wu Chi was being confronted by his wife, who stood before him in his inner chamber.
Kai Lung's Golden Hours|Ernest Bramah

British Dictionary definitions for Wu (1 of 2)

Wu¹

/ (wuː) /

noun

Harry, real name Wu Hongda. born 1937, Chinese dissident and human-rights campaigner, a US citizen from 1994: held in labour camps (1960–79); exiled to the US in 1985 but returned secretly to document forced labour in Chinese prisons

British Dictionary definitions for Wu (2 of 2)

Wu²

/ (wuː) /

noun

a group of dialects of Chinese spoken around the Yangtze delta

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Scientific definitions for Wu

[ wōō ]

Chien-Shiung 1912-1997

Chinese-born American physicist. Research with her colleagues on electron emission in the decay of radioactive elements showed that parity symmetry, long thought to hold for all physical laws, is in fact violated; the decay processes displayed odd parity, essentially entailing that nature distinguishes between right-handed and left-handed processes.