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MORSE
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Irregular inflected form: morses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals)
Synonyms:
international Morse code; Morse; Morse code
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Morse" is a kind of...):
code (a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy)
Meronyms (parts of "Morse"):
dit; dot (the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code)
dah; dash (the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)
Synonyms:
Morse; Samuel F. B. Morse; Samuel Finley Breese Morse; Samuel Morse
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
painter (an artist who paints)
Context examples:
Mrs. Morse took it upon herself to work slowly and indirectly upon Ruth, rather than to combat her.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He managed to find employment with Morse Hudson, and in that way tracked down three of them.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Morse's voice was low and sweet as she said, "And that is the children."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A reference to his books showed that hundreds of casts had been taken from a marble copy of Devine’s head of Napoleon, but that the three which had been sent to Morse Hudson a year or so before had been half of a batch of six, the other three being sent to Harding Brothers, of Kensington.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Let her see all she wants of him," was Mr. Morse's advice.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In Kennington Road, and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson’s shop, there lives a well-known medical practitioner, named Dr. Barnicot, who has one of the largest practices upon the south side of the Thames.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Morse was strangely sad and happy.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“It was at the shop of Morse Hudson, who has a place for the sale of pictures and statues in the Kennington Road. The assistant had left the front shop for an instant, when he heard a crash, and hurrying in he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments. He rushed out into the road, but, although several passers-by declared that they had noticed a man run out of the shop, he could neither see anyone nor could he find any means of identifying the rascal. It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of hooliganism which occur from time to time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such. The plaster cast was not worth more than a few shillings, and the whole affair appeared to be too childish for any particular investigation.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"It was to be expected," Mrs. Morse said gently.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She paused, waiting with expectancy the benediction of her mother's kiss, but Mrs. Morse was coldly silent.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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