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Furthermore, the middle number of the Lo Shu is not only the physical mean between every opposing pair of the other numbers, by reason of its central position ; it is also their mathematical mean, since it is equal to half the sum of every opposing pair, all of which equal 10. | is | {
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Furthermore, the middle number of the Lo Shu is not only the physical mean between every opposing pair of the other numbers, by reason of its central position ; it is also their mathematical mean, since it is equal to half the sum of every opposing pair, all of which equal 10. | is | {
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Furthermore, the middle number of the Lo Shu is not only the physical mean between every opposing pair of the other numbers, by reason of its central position ; it is also their mathematical mean, since it is equal to half the sum of every opposing pair, all of which equal 10. | equal | {
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In fact, the neat balance of these pairs, and their subtle equilibrium, would have had special meaning in the minds of the Old Chinese. | had | {
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For they considered the odd numbers as male and the even ones as female, equating the two groups with the Yang and Yin principles in Nature ; and in this square, the respective pairs made up of large and small odd ( Yang ) numbers, and those composed of large and small even ( Yin ) numbers, were all equal to each other... | considered | {
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For they considered the odd numbers as male and the even ones as female, equating the two groups with the Yang and Yin principles in Nature ; and in this square, the respective pairs made up of large and small odd ( Yang ) numbers, and those composed of large and small even ( Yin ) numbers, were all equal to each other... | equating | {
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For they considered the odd numbers as male and the even ones as female, equating the two groups with the Yang and Yin principles in Nature ; and in this square, the respective pairs made up of large and small odd ( Yang ) numbers, and those composed of large and small even ( Yin ) numbers, were all equal to each other... | made up | {
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For they considered the odd numbers as male and the even ones as female, equating the two groups with the Yang and Yin principles in Nature ; and in this square, the respective pairs made up of large and small odd ( Yang ) numbers, and those composed of large and small even ( Yin ) numbers, were all equal to each other... | composed | {
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For they considered the odd numbers as male and the even ones as female, equating the two groups with the Yang and Yin principles in Nature ; and in this square, the respective pairs made up of large and small odd ( Yang ) numbers, and those composed of large and small even ( Yin ) numbers, were all equal to each other... | were | {
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Thus all differences were leveled, and all contrasts erased, in a realm of no distinction, and the harmonious balance of the Lo Shu square could effectively symbolize the world in balanced harmony around a powerful central axis. | leveled | {
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Thus all differences were leveled, and all contrasts erased, in a realm of no distinction, and the harmonious balance of the Lo Shu square could effectively symbolize the world in balanced harmony around a powerful central axis. | erased | {
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Thus all differences were leveled, and all contrasts erased, in a realm of no distinction, and the harmonious balance of the Lo Shu square could effectively symbolize the world in balanced harmony around a powerful central axis. | symbolize | {
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The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the Lo Shu square - for purely mathematical reasons - and the fact that this number so neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality. | symbolized | {
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The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the Lo Shu square - for purely mathematical reasons - and the fact that this number so neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality. | explain | {
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The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the Lo Shu square - for purely mathematical reasons - and the fact that this number so neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality. | seem | {
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The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the Lo Shu square - for purely mathematical reasons - and the fact that this number so neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality. | revered | {
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The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the Lo Shu square - for purely mathematical reasons - and the fact that this number so neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality. | put | {
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These twin tendencies seem to have reached their height in the Han dynasty. | seem | {
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These twin tendencies seem to have reached their height in the Han dynasty. | reached | {
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The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B. C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow - which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions - and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he w... | stimulated | {
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The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B. C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow - which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions - and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he w... | ordered | {
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The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B. C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow - which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions - and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he w... | changed | {
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The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B. C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow - which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions - and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he w... | symbolized | {
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The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B. C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow - which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions - and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he w... | took | {
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The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B. C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow - which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions - and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he w... | believing | {
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The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B. C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow - which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions - and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he w... | place | {
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His immediate motive for doing this may not have been directly inspired by the Lo Shu, but this measure must inevitably have increased the existing beliefs in the latter 's efficacy. | doing | {
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His immediate motive for doing this may not have been directly inspired by the Lo Shu, but this measure must inevitably have increased the existing beliefs in the latter 's efficacy. | inspired | {
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His immediate motive for doing this may not have been directly inspired by the Lo Shu, but this measure must inevitably have increased the existing beliefs in the latter 's efficacy. | increased | {
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After this time, inscriptions on the Han bronze mirrors, as well as other writings, emphasized the desirability of keeping one 's self at the center of the universe, where cosmic forces were strongest. | keeping | {
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After this time, inscriptions on the Han bronze mirrors, as well as other writings, emphasized the desirability of keeping one 's self at the center of the universe, where cosmic forces were strongest. | were | {
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Later, we shall see what happened when an emperor took this idea too literally. | see | {
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Later, we shall see what happened when an emperor took this idea too literally. | took | {
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All this emphasis on Centrality and on the number 5 as a symbolic expression of the Center, which seems to have begun as far back as 400 B. C., also may conceivably have led to the development of the Five-Elements School and the subsequent efforts to fit everything into numerical categories of five. | seems | {
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All this emphasis on Centrality and on the number 5 as a symbolic expression of the Center, which seems to have begun as far back as 400 B. C., also may conceivably have led to the development of the Five-Elements School and the subsequent efforts to fit everything into numerical categories of five. | begun | {
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We find, for example, such groupings as the Five Ancient Rulers, the Five Sacred Mountains, the Five Directions ( with Center ), the Five Metals, Five Colors, Five Tastes, Five Odors, Five Musical Notes, Five Bodily Functions, Five Viscera, and many others. | find | {
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This trend has often been ascribed to the cult of the Five Elements itself, as though they had served as the base for all the rest ; but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East - which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities - ... | ascribed | {
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This trend has often been ascribed to the cult of the Five Elements itself, as though they had served as the base for all the rest ; but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East - which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities - ... | served | {
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This trend has often been ascribed to the cult of the Five Elements itself, as though they had served as the base for all the rest ; but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East - which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities - ... | exerted | {
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And why did the Chinese suddenly begin to talk about the Five Directions, when the animals they used as symbols of the directions designated only the usual four? | begin | {
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Obviously, something suddenly caused them to start thinking in terms of fives, and that may have been the workings of the Lo Shu. | caused | {
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This whole tendency had an unfortunate effect on Chinese thinking. | had | {
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Whereas the primary meanings of the Lo Shu diagram seemed to have been based on its inner mathematical properties - and we shall see that even its secondary meanings rested on some mathematical bases - the urgent desire to place everything into categories of fives led to other groupings based on other numbers, until an... | based | {
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Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries. | assigned | {
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Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries. | based | {
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Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries. | stifle | {
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Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders. | seem | {
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Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders. | account for | {
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Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders. | held | {
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Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders. | was | {
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For the Lo Shu square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief religious and philosophical ideas of its time. | was | {
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As such, one cannot fully understand the thought of the pre-Han and Han periods without knowing the meanings inherent in the Lo Shu ; but, conversely, one cannot begin to understand the Lo Shu without knowing something about the world view of the Old Chinese, which they felt they saw expressed in it. | understand | {
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As such, one cannot fully understand the thought of the pre-Han and Han periods without knowing the meanings inherent in the Lo Shu ; but, conversely, one cannot begin to understand the Lo Shu without knowing something about the world view of the Old Chinese, which they felt they saw expressed in it. | knowing | {
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As such, one cannot fully understand the thought of the pre-Han and Han periods without knowing the meanings inherent in the Lo Shu ; but, conversely, one cannot begin to understand the Lo Shu without knowing something about the world view of the Old Chinese, which they felt they saw expressed in it. | begin | {
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As such, one cannot fully understand the thought of the pre-Han and Han periods without knowing the meanings inherent in the Lo Shu ; but, conversely, one cannot begin to understand the Lo Shu without knowing something about the world view of the Old Chinese, which they felt they saw expressed in it. | understand | {
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As such, one cannot fully understand the thought of the pre-Han and Han periods without knowing the meanings inherent in the Lo Shu ; but, conversely, one cannot begin to understand the Lo Shu without knowing something about the world view of the Old Chinese, which they felt they saw expressed in it. | knowing | {
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As such, one cannot fully understand the thought of the pre-Han and Han periods without knowing the meanings inherent in the Lo Shu ; but, conversely, one cannot begin to understand the Lo Shu without knowing something about the world view of the Old Chinese, which they felt they saw expressed in it. | felt | {
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As such, one cannot fully understand the thought of the pre-Han and Han periods without knowing the meanings inherent in the Lo Shu ; but, conversely, one cannot begin to understand the Lo Shu without knowing something about the world view of the Old Chinese, which they felt they saw expressed in it. | saw | {
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As such, one cannot fully understand the thought of the pre-Han and Han periods without knowing the meanings inherent in the Lo Shu ; but, conversely, one cannot begin to understand the Lo Shu without knowing something about the world view of the Old Chinese, which they felt they saw expressed in it. | expressed | {
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The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen. | seems | {
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The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen. | been | {
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The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen. | based | {
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According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T ' ien - as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god - governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''. | According | {
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According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T ' ien - as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god - governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''. | governing | {
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According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T ' ien - as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god - governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''. | interpreted | {
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Heaven, acting through the Tao, expressed itself by means of the workings of two basic principles, the Yin and the Yang. | acting | {
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Heaven, acting through the Tao, expressed itself by means of the workings of two basic principles, the Yin and the Yang. | expressed | {
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The Yang, or male principle, was the source of light, heat, and dynamic vitality, associated with the Sun ; while the Yin, or female principle, flourished in darkness, cold, and quiet inactivity, and was associated with the Moon. | was | {
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"sense_definitions_list": [
"a showy gesture",
"an ornamental embellishment in writing",
"a display of ornamental speech or language",
"the act of waving",
"(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments",
"grow vigorously",
"make steady progress; be at the... | [
"grow vigorously"
] | [
"flourish%2:30:01::"
] |
Together these two principles influenced all things, and in varying combinations they were present in everything. | influenced | {
"name": "influence",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc",
"causing something without any direct or apparent effort",
"a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do",
"the effect of one thing (or person) on anothe... | [
"have and exert influence or effect"
] | [
"influence%2:41:00::"
] |
Together these two principles influenced all things, and in varying combinations they were present in everything. | were | {
"name": "be",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element",
"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)",
"be identical to; be someone or something",
"occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere",
"have an ex... | [
"happen, occur, take place"
] | [
"be%2:42:04::"
] |
We have already seen that odd numbers were considered as being Yang, while the even numbers were Yin, so that the eight outer numbers of the Lo Shu represented these two principles in balanced equilibrium around the axial center. | seen | {
"name": "see",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located",
"perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight",
"perceive (an idea or situation) mentally",
"perceive or be contemporaneous with",
"imagine; conceive of; see in one's min... | [
"get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally"
] | [
"see%2:31:02::"
] |
We have already seen that odd numbers were considered as being Yang, while the even numbers were Yin, so that the eight outer numbers of the Lo Shu represented these two principles in balanced equilibrium around the axial center. | considered | {
"name": "consider",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"deem to be",
"give careful consideration to",
"take into consideration for exemplifying purposes",
"show consideration for; take into account",
"think about carefully; weigh",
"judge or regard; look upon; judge",
"look at attentively",
... | [
"deem to be"
] | [
"consider%2:31:00::"
] |
We have already seen that odd numbers were considered as being Yang, while the even numbers were Yin, so that the eight outer numbers of the Lo Shu represented these two principles in balanced equilibrium around the axial center. | being | {
"name": "be",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element",
"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)",
"be identical to; be someone or something",
"occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere",
"have an ex... | [
"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)"
] | [
"be%2:42:03::"
] |
We have already seen that odd numbers were considered as being Yang, while the even numbers were Yin, so that the eight outer numbers of the Lo Shu represented these two principles in balanced equilibrium around the axial center. | were | {
"name": "be",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element",
"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)",
"be identical to; be someone or something",
"occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere",
"have an ex... | [
"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)"
] | [
"be%2:42:03::"
] |
We have already seen that odd numbers were considered as being Yang, while the even numbers were Yin, so that the eight outer numbers of the Lo Shu represented these two principles in balanced equilibrium around the axial center. | represented | {
"name": "represent",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to",
"express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol",
"be representative or typical for",
"be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for... | [
"take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to"
] | [
"represent%2:42:02::"
] |
During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China. | applied | {
"name": "apply",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose",
"be pertinent or relevant or applicable",
"ask (for something)",
"apply to a surface",
"be applicable to; as to an analysis",
"give or conve... | [
"be applicable to; as to an analysis"
] | [
"apply%2:42:01::"
] |
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