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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A university in England
Synonyms:
Cambridge; Cambridge University
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Instance hypernyms:
university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)
Holonyms ("Cambridge" is a part of...):
Cambridge (a city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Meronyms (parts of "Cambridge"):
Cambridge; Cambridge University (a university in England)
Meronyms (members of "Cambridge"):
Cantabrigian (a resident of Cambridge)
Holonyms ("Cambridge" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Meronyms (parts of "Cambridge"):
Harvard; Harvard University (a university in Massachusetts)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT (an engineering university in Cambridge)
Holonyms ("Cambridge" is a part of...):
Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)
Context examples:
As I said, I shall return from Cambridge in a fortnight: that space, then, is yet left you for reflection.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
My plan was laid at Westminster, a little altered, perhaps, at Cambridge, and at one-and-twenty executed.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used atmospheric data from 19 exoplanets to obtain detailed measurements of their chemical and thermal properties.
(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)
But when I came to make the bed I found, between the blankets, dropped apparently as he had sunk off to sleep, a complete Browning, the Cambridge Edition.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The work done by the Cambridge researchers opens a number of commercial opportunities for ink based on two-dimensional materials, ranging from personal health and well-being technology, to wearable energy and data storage, military garments, wearable computing and fashion.
(Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes, University of Cambridge)
The Cambridge team’s discoveries on how brain stem cells age and how this process might be reversed have important implications for future treatment, because it gives us a new target to address issues associated with aging and MS, including how to potentially regain lost function in the brain.
(Cambridge scientists reverse ageing process in rat brain stem cells, University of Cambridge)
Proteins circulating in our blood are a manifestation of our genetic make-up as well as many other factors, such as behaviours or the presence of disease, even if not yet diagnosed, said Dr Claudia Langenberg, from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge.
(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)
In trying to manage the growing burden of chronic preventable disease, we’re increasingly moving towards precision healthcare, target-driven care and technology-based assessment, while at the same time focusing less on the human, interpersonal empathic aspects of care, says Dr Hajira Dambha-Miller, a GP and researcher at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
Researchers from the Cambridge Graphene Centre prepared and tested the composite, confirming its ability to photocatalytically degrade pollutant molecules, then researchers at Italcementi applied the coating to concrete to investigate its potential for environmental remediation.
(Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution, University of Cambridge)
This new understanding of placental development and function could contribute to better management of human pregnancies, and development of targeted interventions to improve the longer-term health of children born to older mothers, said Dr Tina Napso, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge and first author of the study.
(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)
