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SUI

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What does SUI mean?

noun

  1. Clipping of suicide.
  2. Initialism of stress urinary incontinence.

verb

  1. To commit a suicide attack.
More meanings (6)

noun

  1. A member of an ethnic people living primarily in the Guizhou province of China, with around 430,000 people.

adjective

  1. Pertaining to the Sui language or the Sui people.

proper noun

  1. The Sui dynasty of China which ruled from 581 to 618.
  2. A surname of Chinese origin.
  3. A county of Suizhou, Hubei, China.
  4. The language of these people, part of the Kra-Dai language family.

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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He should rather be classed among those creatures described by Dante as "a Dio spiacenti ed ai nemici sui."
John FiskeThe Unseen World, and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #1486
“Ille potens sui Laetusque deget, cui licet in diem Dixisse vixi! cras vel atra Nube polum pater occupato, Vel sole puro.”
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
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A few isolated facts had been gathered of its geology, and the anomalous fauna and flora sui generis had been but partially described.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137
The eminent Italian geologist, Stoppani, goes further than I had ventured to do, and treats the action of man as a new physical clement altogether sui generis.
George P. (George Perkins) MarshThe Earth as Modified by Human ActionProject Gutenberg ebook #6019
He never felt before, that he was sui juris, that he might go whithersoever he would, without asking leave, without consulting any other director than the law of his own mind.
William GodwinThoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorProject Gutenberg ebook #743