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PAUL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle
Example:
Paul's name was Saul prior to his conversion to Christianity
Synonyms:
Apostle of the Gentiles; Apostle Paul; Paul; Paul the Apostle; Saint Paul; Saul; Saul of Tarsus; St. Paul
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Apostelic Father; Apostle (any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people)
missionary; missioner (someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country)
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States feminist (1885-1977)
Synonyms:
Alice Paul; Paul
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
feminist; libber; women's liberationist; women's rightist (a supporter of feminism)
Context examples:
"TESS was designed and launched specifically to find Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby stars," said Paul Hertz, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)
Years ago, in 1984, Paul Stamets had noticed a “continuous convoy of bees” traveling from a patch of mushrooms he was growing and his beehives.
(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The evolution of surface and shallow subsurface meltwater across Antarctic ice shelves has important implications for their stability, said program director Paul Cutler in NSF's Office of Polar Programs.
(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)
With St. Paul, I acknowledge myself the chiefest of sinners; but I do not suffer this sense of my personal vileness to daunt me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Research at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, sheds the first light on the life of a young Rapetosaurus, a titanosaurian sauropod buried in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of Madagascar.
(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)
Imagine Mr. Butler living up to social etiquette and enunciating his views on Paul Verlaine or the German drama or the novels of D'Annunzio.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Physicians have been taught for decades to consider AKI and CKD as separate, but our study shows that we have to approach the two diseases as interconnected, said lead author Paul Kimmel, M.D.. When people have chronic kidney disease, their doctors should be on the lookout for acute kidney injury.
(Acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease each a risk of the other, NIH)
Lead author Professor Paul Foster, from the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, said: 'We have found yet another reason why air pollution should be addressed as a public health priority. 'Avoiding sources of air pollution could be worthwhile for eye health alongside other health concerns.
(Air Pollution Can Trigger Glaucoma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Visualising the molecular architecture of wood allows us to investigate how changing the arrangement of certain polymers within it might alter its strength, said Professor Paul Dupree, a co-author of the study in Cambridge’s Department of Biochemistry.
(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)
In the patients with elevated levels of amyloid or tau, we detected significant thinning in the center of the retina, said co-principal investigator Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, the Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
(Predicting Alzheimer's Disease May Be Possible Using Eye Exam, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
