pacific
太平洋,太平洋地区,太平洋的,太平洋地区的
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Definitions
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- : tending to make or preserve peace; conciliatory: pacific overtures.
- : not warlike; peaceable; mild: a pacific disposition.
- : at peace; peaceful: a pacific era in history.
- : calm; tranquil: The Wabash is a pacific river.
- : of or relating to the Pacific Ocean.
- : of or relating to the region bordering on the Pacific Ocean: the Pacific states.
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- : Pacific Ocean.
- : a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, six driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.
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Examples
The End of Gangs By Sam Quinones, Pacific-Standard Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang.
Still, at least Macklemore sounds like a white guy from the Pacific Northwest.
Owing to its popularity as a pet, it has spread across the Pacific to China.
He was a young Army Air Force lieutenant whose plane crashed in the Pacific in May 1943.
To break her self-destructive cycle and heal, she decides to hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo.
That his friend had withdrawn, was a pledge of his pacific wishes; and, with a lightened countenance, Louis rose from his knee.
The shrieking trade-winds and the dense white fogs were hibernating somewhere out in the Pacific.
It looked so calm and peaceful that he said, "I will call it 'Pacific,' for I have never seen the like before."
At this spot, according to our works on geography, the Atlantic Ocean changes its name and assumes that of the Pacific.
That extraordinary but unfortunate man was the first European whose eyes rested on the broad Pacific.