chinook
中国人,中国人寿,鲑鱼,中国人寿保险公司
Definitions
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plural Chi·nooks, Chi·nook.
- : a member of a formerly numerous North American Indian people originally inhabiting the northern shore of the mouth of the Columbia River and the adjacent territory.
- : either of the two languages of the Chinook Indians.Compare Lower Chinook, Upper Chinook.
- : a warm, dry wind that blows at intervals down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
- : chinook salmon.
- : a U.S. Army cargo helicopter in service since 1962 and capable of ferrying 12 tons of supplies and troops.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Southern Resident orcas are currently endangered, and their preferred food source, the Chinook salmon, is declining in population.
The Chinook vibrated with deeper and deeper groans until its twin engines managed to heave up our dead weight.
The note promised to send more pictures “like before,” and included a photograph of a Chinook helicopter unloading supplies.
Chinook For this crowd, a spelling bee is no matter to be joked about.
Next he says a double rotor Chinook landed inside the compound.
Need I add that tum-tum in the Chinook jargon signifies the soul!
Having made friends, he told me in a mixture of broken English and Chinook some of the old folk lore of his tribe.
But few of them speak the English language fluently; they mostly talk French and Chinook jargon.
The idea expressed in English by the sentence I came to give it to her is rendered in Chinook by i-n-i-a-l-u-d-am.
Thus began and ended our first lesson in the Chinook jargon, and our first experience with a clam bake.