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PROFESSOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("professor" is a kind of...):
academic; academician; faculty member (an educator who works at a college or university)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "professor"):
assistant professor (a teacher or lower rank than an associate professor)
associate professor (a teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor)
full professor (a professor of the highest rank)
Regius professor (holder of a British professorship created by a royal patron)
visiting professor (a professor visiting another college or university to teach for a limited time)
Holonyms ("professor" is a member of...):
faculty; staff (the body of teachers and administrators at a school)
Derivation:
professorial (relating to or characteristic of professors)
professorship (the position of professor)
Context examples:
He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“With the right conditions, planets could be formed even in harsh environments, such as around a black hole,” said Keiichi Wada, a professor at Kagoshima University in Japan.
(Thousands of Planets Could Be Orbiting around Black Holes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Professor Foster said the link could be much more widespread in other countries where air pollution is rife.
(Air Pollution Can Trigger Glaucoma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Mark Hersam, a professor of materials science engineering, chemistry and medicine at Northwestern University, has developed a method to separate nanomaterials by size, therefore providing a consistency in properties otherwise not available.
(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The models enable us to see the wide ranges of conditions that can cause displays to become stuck in the population, evolutionarily, said Maria R. Servedio, an NSF-funded UNC professor and study author.
(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)
The study proves a new and transformative technique for exploring the nature of galaxy halos, said J. Xavier Prochaska, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California Santa Cruz.
(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil halo, ESO)
We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the evident variation in things like skin color, hair color and the face itself, said Mark D. Shriver, professor of anthropology, Penn State.
(Nose Form Was Shaped by Climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"We improved the nutritional value of corn, the largest commodity crop grown on Earth," Thomas Leustek, professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Rutgers University and co-author of the study, told VOA.
(US Researchers Genetically Modify Corn to Boost Nutritional Value, VOA News)
If you’re hoping to get into graduate school, a professor may take you under his wing and help you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
