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LEE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The side of something that is sheltered from the wind
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("lee" is a kind of...):
face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)
Sense 2
Meaning:
American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
Synonyms:
Lee; Robert E. Lee; Robert Edward Lee
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)
Synonyms:
Henry Lee; Lee; Lighthorse Harry Lee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
Synonyms:
Lee; Richard Henry Lee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
American Revolutionary leader (a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States)
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)
Synonyms:
Lee; Tsung Dao Lee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)
Sense 6
Meaning:
United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)
Synonyms:
Bruce Lee; Lee; Lee Yuen Kam
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
Sense 7
Meaning:
United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
Synonyms:
Gypsy Rose Lee; Lee; Rose Louise Hovick
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
ecdysiast; exotic dancer; peeler; stripper; striptease; striptease artist; stripteaser (a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music)
Sense 8
Meaning:
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
Synonyms:
Lee; Shelton Jackson Lee; Spike Lee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Towards the side away from the wind
Synonyms:
downwind; lee
Classified under:
Similar:
leeward (on the side away from the wind)
Context examples:
Sheriff Lee said they arrested one person for urinating in public, technically indecent exposure.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
A critical challenge is ensuring high sensitivity and accuracy in detecting biomarkers — indicators such as modified genes or proteins — within the complex stem cell microenvironment, said senior author KiBum Lee of Rutgers University.
(Better biosensor technology created for stem cells, National Science Foundation)
Bessie Lee must, I think, have been a girl of good natural capacity, for she was smart in all she did, and had a remarkable knack of narrative; so, at least, I judge from the impression made on me by her nursery tales.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Our article is the first time such a large body of interdisciplinary evidence has been investigated in this context, said lead author Lee Mordechai of the synthesis center and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)
Having taken the pirate captain prisoner, sailed slap over the schooner, whose decks were piled high with dead and whose lee scuppers ran blood, for the order had been 'Cutlasses, and die hard!' 'Bosun's mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn't confess his sins double quick,' said the British captain.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When all was ready, the word “hard-a-lee” was passed forward to me from man to man; and the Ghost heeled about on the port tack with practically no noise at all.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“We are on the outskirts of Lee,” said my companion.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Because it seemed to me to have an indirect bearing upon the mystery of Woodman’s Lee.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It will be an education for the child, said I, only being with her cousins; if Miss Lee taught her nothing, she would learn to be good and clever from them.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Your ship's in irons, Master Silver; you're on a lee shore, and so you'll find.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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