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GILBERT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))
Sense 2
Meaning:
English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
Synonyms:
Gilbert; Humphrey Gilbert; Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)
Sense 3
Meaning:
English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
Synonyms:
Gilbert; William Gilbert
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
Synonyms:
Gilbert; Sir William Gilbert; William Gilbert; William S. Gilbert; William Schwenk Gilbert
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
librettist (author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta)
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Derivation:
Gilbertian (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("gilbert" is a kind of...):
magnetomotive force unit (a unit of measurement of magnetomotive force)
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