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GILBERT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)

Synonyms:

Cass Gilbert; Gilbert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

Sense 2

Meaning:

English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)

Synonyms:

Gilbert; Humphrey Gilbert; Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)

Synonyms:

Gilbert; William Gilbert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

Synonyms:

Gilbert; Sir William Gilbert; William Gilbert; William S. Gilbert; William Schwenk Gilbert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

librettist (author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

Gilbertian (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns

Synonyms:

Gb; Gi; gilbert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("gilbert" is a kind of...):

magnetomotive force unit (a unit of measurement of magnetomotive force)

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