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ROSS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836)
Synonyms:
Betsy Griscom Ross; Betsy Ross; Ross
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
dressmaker; modiste; needlewoman; seamstress; sempstress (someone who makes or mends dresses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977)
Synonyms:
Nellie Ross; Nellie Tayloe Ross; Ross
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)
Sense 3
Meaning:
British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932)
Synonyms:
Ross; Sir Ronald Ross
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)
Sense 4
Meaning:
British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
Synonyms:
James Clark Ross; Ross; Sir James Clark Ross
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
Synonyms:
John Ross; Ross; Sir John Ross
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))
Context examples:
Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in Herefordshire.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This area, known as the Ross Sea Polynya, absorbs solar heat quickly in summer and this solar heat source is clearly influencing melting in the ice shelf cavity.
(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The Ross Ice Shelf, a part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet that is floating on the ocean, measures several hundred meters thick and covers more than 480,000 square kilometers, approximately the size of Spain.
(Study in Antarctic waters reveals why Ross Ice Shelf melts in summer, National Science Foundation)
The Ross Sea - home to penguins, seals, Antarctic toothfish, whales and huge numbers of krill - a staple food for many species - is one of the last intact marine ecosystems in the world.
(Deal Reached to Create World's Largest Marine Reserve in Antarctica, VOA News)
He has been in your service some years, Colonel Ross?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However, it seems that Ross 128 is a much quieter star, and so its planets may be the closest known comfortable abode for possible life.
(Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered, ESO)
By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at all.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Ross Ice Shelf stabilises the West Antarctic ice sheet by blocking the ice which flows into it from some of the world’s largest glaciers.
(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The study comes out of the ROSETTA-Ice project, a three-year effort to collect geologic, oceanographic and glaciological data in the Ross Sea region.
(Study in Antarctic waters reveals why Ross Ice Shelf melts in summer, National Science Foundation)
Colonel Ross met us by appointment outside the station, and we drove in his drag to the course beyond the town.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
