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DAVID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)
Synonyms:
David; Jacques Louis David
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
painter (an artist who paints)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Patron saint of Wales (circa 520-600)
Synonyms:
David; Saint David; St. David
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
patron saint (a saint who is considered to be a defender of some group or nation)
Context examples:
“One could say that this planet gets rainy in the evening, except it rains iron,” says David Ehrenreich, a professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)
David Harris, CSIRO research director says “the special thing about the technology that we have is that it allows you to produce very pure hydrogen directly with a membrane system from ammonia.”
(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT is committed to shortening the time needed for breakthrough discoveries to directly benefit cancer patients.
(David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, NCI Thesaurus)
If Saul could have had you for his David, the evil spirit would have been exorcised without the aid of the harp.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I flatter myself I'm a 'gentleman growed' as Peggotty said of David, and when you see Amy, you'll find her rather a precocious infant, said Laurie, looking amused at her maternal air.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Pardieu! said the knight, this David Micheldene must be one of those Lollards about whom Father Christopher of the priory had so much to say.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To understand how, Stanford University mechanical engineer David Lentink and colleagues studied lovebirds flying in a crosswind tunnel that features customizable wind and light settings.
(Scientists discover how birds navigate crosswinds, National Science Foundation)
"We were surprised to find so few positive effects of the most common supplements that people consume," said Dr. David Jenkins, the study's lead author.
(Most Popular Supplements Provide No Health Benefit, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France, David Armstrong and colleagues at the University of Warwick’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Group independently detected the planet in the first instance, alongside researchers at the Universidade do Porto.
(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A research team led by Dr. Praveen Arany of NIH’s National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) and Dr. David Mooney at Harvard University set out to investigate whether LPL can induce stem cells to regenerate components in teeth.
(Laser Therapy Prompts Regeneration in Teeth, NIH)
