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THOMAS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus until he saw Jesus with his own eyes
Synonyms:
doubting Thomas; Saint Thomas; St. Thomas; Thomas; Thomas the doubting Apostle
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Welsh poet (1914-1953)
Synonyms:
Dylan Marlais Thomas; Dylan Thomas; Thomas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A radio broadcast journalist during World War I and World War II noted for his nightly new broadcast (1892-1981)
Synonyms:
Lowell Jackson Thomas; Lowell Thomas; Thomas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
broadcast journalist (a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States socialist who was a candidate for president six times (1884-1968)
Synonyms:
Norman Mattoon Thomas; Norman Thomas; Thomas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
socialist (a political advocate of socialism)
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)
Synonyms:
Seth Thomas; Thomas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
clockmaker; clocksmith (someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches)
Context examples:
A standardized rating scale developed by Thomas R. E. Barnes in 1989 to diagnose akathisia associated with use of antipsychotic agents.
(Barnes Akathisia Rating Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
"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)
NewLink's chief scientific officer for infectious diseases, Thomas Monath, said the FDA would likely approve the vaccine quickly, with large-scale production as early as 2018.
(Study confirms efficacy of NewLink Genetics ebola vaccine, Wikinews)
UNSW Sydney scientist and study first author Associate Professor Thomas Whitford says it has long been thought that these auditory-verbal hallucinations arise from abnormalities in inner speech — our silent internal dialogue.
(Talking to Ourselves And Voices in Our Heads, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I remember the awe with which one day in Thomas Street, Portsmouth, I saw a print of the great Corsican in a bookseller’s window.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But the captain, Mr. Thomas Wilcocks, an honest worthy Shropshire man, observing I was ready to faint, took me into his cabin, gave me a cordial to comfort me, and made me turn in upon his own bed, advising me to take a little rest, of which I had great need.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
We predicted the link between inflammation in the brain and the build-up of damaging proteins, but even we were surprised by how tightly these two problems mapped on to each other, said Dr Thomas Cope from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Cambridge.
(Inflammation in the brain linked to several forms of dementia, University of Cambridge)
The findings of this research, if applicable to humans, will have implications for blood cell transplantation, and for clinical and research methods using blood cells, such as gene therapy or gene editing, said John W. Thomas, Ph.D., Stem Cell and Cell-based Therapy Coordinator at NHLBI.
(Cellular barcoding helps scientists understand the behavior of stem cells, National Institutes of Health)
It was silly, I dare say, but it changed his mind, for I got rather excited, and told the story in my topsy-turvy way, and his wife heard, and said so kindly, 'Take it, Thomas, and oblige the young lady. I'd do as much for our Jimmy any day if I had a spire of hair worth selling.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A team led by Dr. Thomas Geisbert at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, in collaboration with Tekmira Pharmaceuticals in Vancouver, Canada, have been developing therapies that can target specific strains of the Ebola virus.
(Lipid Nanoparticle Therapeutic Treats Ebola in Monkeys, NIH)
