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n.
1.a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
2.a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
3.English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
4.English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
5.United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)

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    hold back
    to stay back or away, to show unwillingness to do something
    Our boss always holds back during meetings and never says anything.



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    S1: No one knows when tea was first discovered, or how it came to be such a popular drink.
    S6: It was called Cha's Ching, which, translated, means Tea Scripture.

    P: By the eighth century A.D. most Chinese were drinking tea, both because they liked it as a beverage and for its medicinal value.
    Q: Tea was so popular that one of the most distinguished poets of the T'ang dynasty, a man called Lu Yu, even wrote a holy scripture about it.
    R: The beverage is generally accepted to have originated in China hundreds of years ago.
    S: Records going back to the fourth century A.D. refer to tea.

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