Liao

[ lyou ]

Wade-Giles, Pinyin.

1. a dynasty that ruled in China a.d. 907–1125.
2. a river in NE China, flowing through S Manchuria into the Gulf of Liaotung. 700 miles (1,125 km) long.

Liao

/ ljaʊ /

noun

1. a river in NE China, rising in SE Inner Mongolia and flowing northeast then southwest to the Gulf of Liaodong. Length: about 1100 km (700 miles)

Example Sentences

On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in Lin’s hometown of New Taipei City to watch the live broadcast of Lin's final, along with her mother Liao Shiu-chen.

From BBC

"We found the SWI/SNF variants each serve a unique, important purpose in reorganizing chromatin across the genome and enabling macrophage inflammatory responses," says first author Jingwen Liao, a graduate student in Hargreaves' lab.

From Science Daily

To that end, editor Ruth Bayang and web editor and ad representative Kelly Liao will stay on.

From Seattle Times

“All of these similarities drew me to crows,” says Diana Liao, an integrative biologist at the University of Tübingen.

From Science Magazine

"Multimode sensing allows us to pick up multiple resonance changes in wavelength, rather than just one," Liao explained.

From Science Daily