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DANIEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar
Synonyms:
Book of Daniel; Book of the Prophet Daniel; Daniel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Daniel" is a part of...):
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A wise and upright judge
Example:
a Daniel come to judgment
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Daniel" is a kind of...):
judge; jurist; justice (a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(Old Testament) a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)
Domain category:
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Context examples:
Given how much of the matter out of which we (are) formed may have come from other galaxies, we could consider ourselves space travelers or extragalactic immigrants, says lead researcher Daniel Anglés-Alcázar.
(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The more chronic active lesions a patient has the greater the chances they will experience this type of MS, said Daniel S. Reich, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator at the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)
Daniel San Vicente, cardiologist and president of the Montevideo regional council of the Medical College of Uruguay, said the current concentration of particles in the air was not enough to have an impact on health.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
Social Science Genetics Association Consortium (SSGAC) led by Daniel J. Benjamin, Ph.D., of the University of Southern California, found 74 separate areas (loci) on human chromosomes that are associated with more years of education.
(Researchers identify genetic links to educational attainment, NIH)
"Listen, Diana," said one of the absorbed students; "Franz and old Daniel are together in the night-time, and Franz is telling a dream from which he has awakened in terror—listen!"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
About half a dozen men came forward; and, one being selected by the magistrate, he deposed that he had been out fishing the night before with his son and brother-in-law, Daniel Nugent, when, about ten o’clock, they observed a strong northerly blast rising, and they accordingly put in for port.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The son confirmed his father’s account, but when Daniel Nugent was called he swore positively that just before the fall of his companion, he saw a boat, with a single man in it, at a short distance from the shore; and as far as he could judge by the light of a few stars, it was the same boat in which I had just landed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
