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MICHAEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Michael" is a kind of...):
archangel (an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy)
Domain category:
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Context examples:
This is the first study to show tumor development in animals exposed to very low levels of arsenic, levels similar to which humans might be exposed, said Michael Waalkes, Ph.D., lead author on the paper and director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Laboratory.
(Low doses of arsenic cause cancer in male mice, NIH)
We knew we had one big problem with increasing rates of ice discharge by some large outlet glaciers, said Michael Bevis, lead author of the paper and a professor of geodynamics at Ohio State University.
(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)
Michael Longaker, a professor of surgery and co-director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford, helped make the discovery and co-authored a study on the topic, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
(Protein Discovery Could Help Heal Bones in Diabetics, VOA)
The poles are connected to the rest of the Earth, and what happens at the poles has consequences for weather and sea level around the world, said Michael Gooseff, a scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-author of the new study.
(Warming at the poles will have global consequences, National Science Foundation)
I thought that I had heard the voice before, but when, over the shoulder of the valet, I caught a glimpse of a large, fleshy, bull-face, with a flattened Michael Angelo nose in the centre of it, I knew at once that it was my neighbour at the supper party.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Co-author of the study and senior scientist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Michael McPhaden, tells SciDev.Net: “The MJO contributes to flooding, dry spells, heat waves, severe tropical storms and other extreme weather events in the far reaches of the globe.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
These results show that heading the ball is indeed related to concussion symptoms, which is contrary to a recent study that suggested that collisions were responsible for most concussions, study author Michael L. Lipton said.
(Soccer Players: More Headers, More Concussions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The weather factors that drive heat waves also contribute to intensified surface ozone and air pollution episodes, said UCI (the University of California, Irvine) professor of Earth system science Michael J. Prather, co-author of the study.
(Dangers of Concurrent Heat Waves, Air Pollution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This is important news for families who have had a young family member suffer a sudden cardiac death, for them to know a genetic cause has been identified, said Paré, who is an associate professor of pathology and molecular medicine with the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.
(Gene Causes Sudden Death in Young People, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Michael Polito of Louisiana State University co-led a team of researchers working to understand how human hunting of seals and whales over the last century, and fishing in modern times, has affected penguin populations.
(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)
