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Word of the Day for Sunday, April 24, 2011yin \YIN\, noun: A principle in Chinese philosophy associated with negative, dark, and feminine attributes. Han adds that the principles of yin and yang plus the five elements explain how all things in nature grow on the basis of mutual interactions. The department's ragingly-successful Facebook page needed a communication avenue that would complement its change-a-minute, do-whatever-I-want attitude - a partner in crime, a yin to it's yang, a Starsky to it's Hutch. Yin, almost always in association with yang, means "bright" in Chinese. | |||||||||
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
yin: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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