CHANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chang mean? 

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

1. the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Chang; Chang Jiang; Changjiang; Yangtze; Yangtze Kiang; Yangtze River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Chang" 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)

 Context examples 

The Queqiao satellite is deployed about 455,000 kilometers from Earth, where it will relay communications between ground controllers and the Chang’e-4.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

Their study really demonstrated that exposure to heat can have all these potential effects on people’s daily activities, said Daisy Chang, an organizational psychologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Shortly after landing, the Chang’e-4 sent a photo of the lunar surface to the Queqiao (“Magpie Bridge”) satellite, which was launched last May in the first phase of the historic mission.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

“A whole host of reasons could potentially explain this exposure effect,” Chang noted.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

The rover drove off its lander’s ramp and onto the lunar surface late Thursday, about 12 hours after the Chang’e-4 spacecraft made the first-ever landing on the moon’s far side.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

Beijing plans to launch a third lunar rover, the Chang’e-5, later this year, which is expected to collect samples from the moon’s surface and bring them back to Earth.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)