SHANGHAI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Shanghai mean? 

• SHANGHAI (noun)
  The noun SHANGHAI has 1 sense:

1. the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world

  Familiarity information: SHANGHAI used as a noun is very rare.

• SHANGHAI (verb)
  The verb SHANGHAI has 1 sense:

1. take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship

  Familiarity information: SHANGHAI used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHANGHAI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Shanghai" is a part of...):

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

• SHANGHAI (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they shanghai    ... he / she / it shanghais   
Past simple: shanghaied   
Past participle: shanghaied   
-ing form: shanghaiing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

impress; shanghai

Context example:

The men were shanghaied after being drugged

Hypernyms (to "shanghai" is one way to...):

abduct; kidnap; nobble; snatch (take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom)

Domain category:

crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

shanghaier (a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship)

 Context examples 

Smallpox in ’Onolulu, two broken legs in Shanghai, pnuemonia in Unalaska, three busted ribs an’ my insides all twisted in ’Frisco.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Shanghai, China have announced the first-ever cloning of a primate from post-embryonic cells, namely two macaque monkeys.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

Therefore a team of researchers from the Shanghai Mental Health Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, set out to investigate if there was evidence to support improvement of anxiety symptoms by regulating intestinal microbiota.

(Anxiety May Be Alleviated by Changing Gut Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)