Canton

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A division of a political unit.

   “These three millions live in a small canton of Egypt which cannot maintain twenty thousand people”

2. isim One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
3. isim An administrative division within a department in France, often being a subdivision of an arrondissement.
4. isim A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
5. isim A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township.
6. isim A small community or clan.
7. isim A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side, the upper-left quadrant of a flag, (the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
8. isim A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.

   “The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.”

9. fiil To delineate as a separate district.
10. fiil To divide into cantons.
11. fiil To quarter troops by requisitioning housing from the civilian population.

    “To the end of husbanding the supplies, he will cause to be cantoned in the cities and villages the greatest possible numbers of troops”

12. fiil To be allotted such quarters.

    “An army, falling back upon its lines of magazines, may … make its retreat with more security than one which has to canton, to subsist, and to extend itself to find cantonments.”

13. isim A song or canto.

    “Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.”

14. özel isim Guangzhou, the capital and largest city of Guangdong, China.

    “The earliest pioneer of British free trade in Canton was Mr. William Jardine, founder of the still flourishing firm of Jardine, Matheson, and Co., who visited China off and on between the years 1802 and 1818, and resided in Canton continuously from 1820 to January 31, 1839.”

15. özel isim Guangdong, a province of China.

    “XVIII. Quanton, or Canton, lies Eaſt and South from Quanſi, and is the moſt Southern Province of the Empire. Nieuhoff ſays, here are ſeveral ſafe Harbours and Roads, that it produces all Neceſſaries for Life, and has two Harveſts a year. Their Winter is very warm, and their Fields always verdant.”

16. özel isim The Pearl River, a river in southern China.
17. özel isim A hamlet in Ontario, Canada.
18. özel isim A former settlement in El Dorado County, California.
19. özel isim A town in Hartford County, Connecticut.
20. özel isim A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Georgia.
21. özel isim A city in Fulton County, Illinois.
22. özel isim An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Washington County, Indiana.
23. özel isim An unincorporated community in Jackson County and Jones County, Iowa.
24. özel isim A small city in McPherson County, Kansas; named for the city in Ohio.
25. özel isim A small town in Oxford County, Maine; named for the town in Massachusetts.
26. özel isim A neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.
27. özel isim A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
28. özel isim A township in Wayne County, Michigan.
29. özel isim A tiny city in Fillmore County, Minnesota; named for the city in Ohio.
30. özel isim A city, the county seat of Madison County, Mississippi.