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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island group and state of the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean. Part of a Japanese mandate after 1920, it fell to US forces in 1945. Yap is noted for the large stone disks traditionally used as money by the native population.
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- proper noun An
atoll in the Caroline Islands of westernMicronesia .
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Examples
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You showed pictures of islanders in Yap, not Guam, on the beach waving at an airplane.
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Kimming Yap from the Singapore based design firm Creativeans has sent us photos of the Sqoosh bench.
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One gene in particular, called Yap 1, was found to be essential for the yeast's ability to neutralize the ROS attack.
R&D Mag - News 2009
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Tell Killer Yap that there is a lovely tropical island in Micronesia called "Yap".
Archive 2006-06-11 Miss Snark 2006
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Our Sergeant, known among the boys as "Yap," is another interesting character; his heart was the biggest thing about him and his voice came next.
Into the Jaws of Death Jack O'Brien
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"Yap," cried Mop, so denominated from the quantity and cut of the hair that crowned his head.
The Major Ralph Connor 1898
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Most products were either American or Asian brands, and the food supply for a remote island such as Yap means a lot of canned and frozen foods.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Most products were either American or Asian brands, and the food supply for a remote island such as Yap means a lot of canned and frozen foods.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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I recently ran across mention of a "mystery fish" from the Micronesian island of Yap, in Kenneth Brower's 1983 book, A Song for Satawal.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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I recently ran across mention of a "mystery fish" from the Micronesian island of Yap, in Kenneth Brower's 1983 book, A Song for Satawal.
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