English-Thai Dictionary
Shanghai
N เซี่ยงไฮ้ siang-hai
Shanghai
N เมือง เซี่ยงไฮ้ เป็น เมือง ท่าเรือ ของ จีน muang-sing-hai-pen-muang-ta-ruea
shanghai
VT บีบบังคับ ให้ เป็น กะลาสี เรือ โดย วิธี มอมเมา หรือ ใช้กำลัง
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SHANGHAI
Shang `hai ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shanghaied; p. pr. & vb. n.Shanghaiing.]
Defn: To intoxicate and ship (a person ) as a sailor while in this condition. [Written also shanghae.] [Slang, U.S.]
SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI Shang `hai ", n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.
New American Oxford Dictionary
Shanghai
Shang hai |ˈSHaNGˈhī ˈˌʃæŋˈˌhaɪ | a city on the eastern coast of China, a port on the estuary of the Yangtze River; pop. 11,283,700 (est. 2006 ). Until World War II, Shanghai contained areas of British, French, and American settlement. It was the site in 1921 of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
shanghai
shanghai 2 |ʃaŋˈhʌɪ |Austral. /NZ ▶noun ( pl. shanghais ) a catapult. ▶verb ( shanghais, shanghaiing, shanghaied ) [ with obj. ] shoot with a catapult. • [ with obj. and adverbial of direction ] catapult in a particular direction: the springy, resilient saplings would shanghai him backwards. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: probably an alteration of Scots dialect shangan ‘a stick cleft at one end ’.
shanghai
shang hai |ˈSHaNGˌhī ˈˌʃæŋˈˌhaɪ | ▶verb ( shanghais, shanghaiing |-ˌhī -iNG |, shanghaied |-ˌhīd | ) [ with obj. ] historical force (someone ) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhanded means. • informal coerce or trick (someone ) into a place or position or into doing something: Brady shanghaied her into his Jaguar and roared off. ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Shanghai .
Oxford Dictionary
Shanghai
Shanghai |ʃaŋˈhʌɪ | a city on the east coast of China, a port on the estuary of the Yangtze; pop. 11,283,700 (est. 2006 ). Opened for trade with the west in 1842, Shanghai contained until the Second World War areas of British, French, and American settlement. It was the site in 1921 of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
shanghai
shanghai 1 |ʃaŋˈhʌɪ | ▶verb ( shanghais, shanghaiing, shanghaied ) [ with obj. ] historical force (someone ) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhand means. • informal coerce or trick (someone ) into a place or position or into doing something: Brady shanghaied her into his Jaguar and roared off. ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Shanghai .
shanghai
shanghai 2 |ʃaŋˈhʌɪ |Austral. /NZ ▶noun ( pl. shanghais ) a catapult. ▶verb ( shanghais, shanghaiing, shanghaied ) [ with obj. ] shoot with a catapult. • [ with obj. and adverbial of direction ] catapult in a particular direction: the springy, resilient saplings would shanghai him backwards. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: probably an alteration of Scots dialect shangan ‘a stick cleft at one end ’.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
Shanghai
Shang hai /ʃæ̀ŋháɪ, -́- /名詞 シャンハイ (上海 ) 〘中国東部の港市 〙.
shanghai
shang hai /ʃæŋháɪ, -́- /動詞 他動詞 1 ⦅やや古 話 ⦆〈人 〉をだまして [無理に ] «…を » させる «into » .2 ⦅古俗 ⦆〈人 〉を (水夫にするため )酔わせて船に連れ込む .