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ALLEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British (1738-1789)
Synonyms:
Allen; Ethan Allen
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)
Synonyms:
Allen; Allen Stewart Konigsberg; Woody Allen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964)
Synonyms:
Allen; Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen; Gracie; Gracie Allen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
comedienne (a female comedian)
Context examples:
The Allen Institute group, in collaboration with researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute, found that the rosehip cells turn on a unique set of genes, a genetic signature not seen in any of the mouse brain cell types they've studied.
(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
“We shall do better another evening I hope,” was Mr. Allen's consolation.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Some of the tests even created artificial radiation belts, akin to the natural Van Allen radiation belts, a layer of charged particles held in place by Earth’s magnetic fields.
(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)
Allen and Sneff are working with British officials and the Library of Congress to run non-invasive tests on the document.
(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)
It was at Allen’s school that I first knew Jim Harrison, Boy Jim as he has always been called, the nephew of Champion Harrison of the village smithy.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These belts, called the Van Allen Radiation Belts, keep most of the high-energy particles at bay.
(FIREBIRD II and NASA Mission Locate Whistling Space Electrons’ Origins, NASA)
The research team, co-led by Ed Lein, Ph.D., Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and Gábor Tamás, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at the University of Szeged in Szeged, Hungary, has uncovered a new type of human brain cell that has never been seen in mice and other well-studied laboratory animals.
(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Soon after the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in 1958, American and Russian scientists concluded that the process of cosmic ray albedo neutron decay (CRAND) was likely the source of the high-energy particles trapped in Earth's magnetic field.
(Six-decade-old space mystery solved with shoebox-sized satellite called a CubeSat, National Science Foundation)
“I am quite of your opinion, sir,” replied Mrs. Allen; “and so I told Miss Morland when she bought it.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen found the document in the archives of the small town of Chichester in Sussex, in southern England.
(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)
