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HENRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)

Synonyms:

Henry; Joseph Henry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)

Synonyms:

Henry; Patrick Henry

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)

orator; public speaker; rhetorician; speechifier; speechmaker (a person who delivers a speech or oration)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)

Synonyms:

Henry; William Henry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second

Synonyms:

H; henry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("henry" is a kind of...):

inductance unit (a measure of the property of an electric circuit by which an electromotive force is induced in it)

Meronyms (parts of "henry"):

abhenry (a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry)

millihenry (a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“So much for Mr. Henry Baker,” said Holmes when he had closed the door behind him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You are too young to have been at school with Mr. Henry Spiker?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Very well—and as Randalls, I suppose, is not likely to have less influence than heretofore, it strikes me as a possible thing, Emma, that Henry and John may be sometimes in the way.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It touches the question of dimidiation or impalement in the coat of mine uncle, Sir John Leighton of Shropshire, who took unto wife the widow of Sir Henry Oglander of Nunwell.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall not talk to you, Henry, but I know you will like her best at last.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three daughters.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You are Henry Peters, of Adelaide, late the Rev. Dr. Shlessinger, of Baden and South America.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There is Arthur H. Staunton, the rising young forger,” said he, “and there was Henry Staunton, whom I helped to hang, but Godfrey Staunton is a new name to me.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Henry Russell's widow, indeed, has no honours to distinguish her arms, but still it is a handsome equipage, and no doubt is well known to convey a Miss Elliot.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

These findings could lead to new protective methods against mosquitos, without the environmental or human health effects of other chemical-based repellants, said Heather Henry, Ph.D., a health scientist administrator with the NIEHS Superfund Research Program.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)