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ANDREW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland
Synonyms:
Andrew; Saint Andrew; Saint Andrew the Apostle; St. Andrew
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
Domain category:
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
Context examples:
We saw the most remarkable growth when we closed the good eye, forcing the mice to look through the injured eye,” said Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., associate professor, Stanford University School of Medicine’s department of neurobiology.###!!!###
(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)
What we’ve traditionally called ‘carbon’ in freshwater turns out to be a super-diverse mixture of different carbon-based organic molecules, said Dr Andrew Tanentzap in Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences, who led the research.
(Climate change could double greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater ecosystems, University of Cambridge)
The discovery came about after researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg trained a computer to learn how to identify exoplanets in the light readings recorded by Kepler - the miniscule change in brightness captured when a planet passed in front of, or transited, a star.
(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)
Loading the nanoparticles into the microdroplets allows us to control the shape and size of the clusters, giving us dramatic colour changes, said Dr Andrew Salmon from Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, the study’s co-first author.
(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)
Andrew Radford, professor in The School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, and one of the authors of the study, says: We have known for a long time that many organisms use acoustic cues from reefs when finding their way back from the open ocean early in life.
(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)
Renunciation, sacrifice, patience, industry, and high endeavor were the principles she thus indirectly preached—such abstractions being objectified in her mind by her father, and Mr. Butler, and by Andrew Carnegie, who, from a poor immigrant boy had arisen to be the book-giver of the world.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"These ants are fascinating as their mandibles are very unusual," said University of Illinois animal biology and entomology professor Andrew Suarez, who led the research with Fredrick J. Larabee, a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In front of the minster and abbey of St. Andrew's was a large square crowded with priests, soldiers, women, friars, and burghers, who made it their common centre for sight-seeing and gossip.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I remember Miss Andrews could not get through the first volume.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Yet what knight was there in that hall of St. Andrew's who would not have gladly laid down youth, beauty, and all that he possessed to win the fame of this man?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
