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portal triad(medicine)
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pamphlet (iou) and Triad (sh)


pamphlet (iou)



pamphlet noun & verb. LME.
[Use of Pamphilet, familiar name of a 12th-cent. Latin love poem Pamphilus, seu de Amore.]
A. noun. A group of several printed or (formerly) written pages, fewer than would make a book, fastened together without a hard cover and issued as a single or (formerly) periodical work; esp. one of which the text is of a minor, ephemeral, or controversial Nature; a booklet; a leaflet. LME.
b. verb.
verb intrans. Write a pamphlet or pamphlets. Long rare or obsolete. L16.
verb trans. Report or describe in a pamphlet. Now rare or obsolete. E18.
verb trans. Distribute pamphlets to. L20.
pamphletary adjective pertaining to or of the Nature of a pamphlet E17.
pam'phletic adjective (rare) = pamphletary E18.
pamphletize verb intrans. & trans. write a pamphlet or pamphlets (on) M17.

Triad (sh)




Term used variously for secret societies in Qing-dynasty China (and sometimes earlier), for modern Chinese crime gangs, and for crime gangs of Other Asian nationals operating in their own countries or abroad.

A secret society with the name Triad started operating in the early 19th century in southern China, where it took root and spread. In the 1850s Triad rebellions threatened Shanghai and Xiamen (Amoy) and contributed to the revolution of 1911. Chinese secret societies have in common the swearing of an oath to join, strict rules, a family relationship among members, the duty of mutual help, a hierarchy of functions, and hereditary membership within Families.