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Definition
- owner
- master
- host
- individual or party concerned
- God
- Lord
- main
- to indicate or signify
- trump card (in card games)
Compounds (12)
to pour (into); to inject; to add; to fill; to concentrate; to fix; stake (in gambling); to register; to pay attention; to fix; to focus (on); to care; to annotate; to record; to explain; to annotate; note; comment; classifier (for sums of money)
Related words (371)
active; to initiate; proactive; to take the initiative; to take the lead; to do something of one's own accord; spontaneous; driving
to take charge (of); to manage; to direct; to preside over; to uphold; to stand for (justice etc); to host (a TV or radio program etc); (TV) anchor
main stream (of a river); (the) essential point (fig.); main viewpoint (of a matter); mainstream (culture etc)
manager; to manage; executive director; to be responsible (for); in charge (of); person in charge
subject-object-verb SOV or subject-object-predicate sentence pattern (e.g. in Japanese or Korean grammar)
subject-verb-object SVO or subject-predicate-object sentence pattern (e.g. in Chinese grammar)
(to give) first (place to); (to) prioritize; (to give) priority (to); (to rely) mainly (on); to take something as the principal thing; (to be the) most important; to attach most importance (to)
to decide; to make decisions; to take responsibility (for deciding); to be in charge; to give sb justice
founder or head of a religion (possibly legendary); figure (man or God) worshipped by a religious sect; modern pop or film star worshipped by fans
a powerful chief of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); overlord; hegemon
philosophy of idealism, the doctrine that external reality is a product of consciousness
to beat a dog and bully its owner; (fig.) to humiliate sb indirectly by bullying a subordinate
democratic revolution; bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
nationalism; national self-determination; principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers); racism
democracy; civil liberties; principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state)
principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the incidental and neglect the main point); lacking a sense of perspective; to put the cart before the horse
veganism (a diet consisting solely of plant products); strict vegetarianism
leftist opportunism (blamed for failures of Chinese communists from 1927); left adventurism; cf Mao's purges following 1935 Zunyi conference 遵義會議
old democratic revolution; bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
Idioms (9)
(lit.) the guest acts as host (idiom); fig. to turn from passive to active behavior
(lit.) the voice of the guest overwhelms that of the host (idiom); (fig.) a minor player upstages the main attraction; minor details obscure the main point; the sauce is better than the fish
to be in charge in one's own house (idiom); to be the master of one's own affairs
independent and autonomous (idiom); self-determination; to act independently; to maintain control over one's own affairs
to think for oneself and act accordingly (idiom); to act on one's own initiative
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