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MORRIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States statesman who led the committee that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816)
Synonyms:
Gouverneur Morris; Morris
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806)
Synonyms:
Morris; Robert Morris
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)
financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)
Sense 3
Meaning:
English poet and craftsman (1834-1896)
Synonyms:
Morris; William Morris
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States suffragist in Wyoming (1814-1902)
Synonyms:
Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris; Esther Morris; Morris
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
suffragist (an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women))
Context examples:
Test codes of questionnaire questions associated with the Roland Morris disability questionnaire for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC Questionnaire RDQ Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
Professor Morris and PhD student Jess Beilharz are investigating the effects of Western-style diets on brain function and gut bacteria.
(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Derived from Buffalo stock of H. Morris to the NIH in 1950 and disseminated from Charles River since 1998, the Buffalo is a white albino rat, genotype c.
(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Derived from Buffalo stock of H. Morris to the NIH in 1950 and disseminated from Charles River since 1998, the Buffalo is a white albino rat, genotype c. The incidence of spontaneous tumor formation includes anterior pituitary and adrenal cortex in upwards of 30% of aged rats.
(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
It is all over. Arthur has gone back to Ring, and has taken Quincey Morris with him. What a fine fellow is Quincey!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As he caught her hands and led her to the Morris chair he noticed how cold they were.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"If you're eating really badly then probiotics might be helpful. But if you're already eating healthily, they may not be that beneficial," says Professor Margaret Morris, Head of Pharmacology at UNSW.
(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As I came along the corridor I saw Mr. Morris looking out of a window.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
