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MURRAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide
Synonyms:
Murray; Murray River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Murray" is a part of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
Synonyms:
James Augustus Henry Murray; James Augustus Murray; James Murray; Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Murray; Sir James Murray
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
lexicographer; lexicologist (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)
philologist; philologue (a humanist specializing in classical scholarship)
Sense 3
Meaning:
British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957)
Synonyms:
George Gilbert Aime Murphy; Gilbert Murray; Murray
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
classical scholar; classicist (a student of ancient Greek and Latin)
Context examples:
The uproar of his advent had not yet died away when Professor Ronald Murray, the chairman, and Mr. Waldron, the lecturer, threaded their way to the front, and the proceedings began.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She says that as a child she used to walk in her sleep, and that when in Whitby the habit came back, and that once she walked out in the night and went to East Cliff, where Miss Murray found her; but she assures me that of late the habit has not returned.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Over the course of the investigation, Murray said 192 people of the 6,000 became sick.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
Professor Murray made several profound remarks to his white tie and to the water-carafe upon the table, with a humorous, twinkling aside to the silver candlestick upon his right.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Murray said the next step is to study whether adding vitamin A to antibiotics, given to family members of a loved one with TB, would offer additional protection against the disease.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
Murray was asked whether it might be possible to shield close family members from tuberculosis by giving them vitamin A supplements if they are found to be deficient.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
Megan Murray of Harvard's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine said investigators followed the participants who lived with someone with TB for one year.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
Murray said there’s scientific research that has shown the immune systems of people with vitamin A deficiency maybe negatively impacted, possibly making make them more susceptible to developing TB. The fact that more young people were at risk for tuberculosis infection, said researchers, suggested vitamin A may play an even greater role in the development of their immune systems.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
After that, if the night was mellow I strolled down Madison Avenue past the old Murray Hill Hotel and over Thirty-third Street to the Pennsylvania Station.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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