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KENNEDY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City

Synonyms:

Kennedy; Kennedy International; Kennedy International Airport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

aerodrome; airdrome; airport; drome (an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo)

Holonyms ("Kennedy" is a part of...):

Long Island (an island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end)

Sense 2

Meaning:

35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)

Synonyms:

Jack Kennedy; JFK; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Kennedy; President John F. Kennedy; President Kennedy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Credits

 Context examples: 

In the current study, researchers led by Jack A. Yanovski, M.D., Ph.D., of NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) randomly assigned 21 study participants to received colchicine twice a day for 3 months, while 19 participants received a placebo.

(Gout treatment may help prevent obesity-related type 2 diabetes, National Institutes of Health)

Our results indicate that screen habits begin early, said Edwina Yeung, Ph.D., the study’s senior author and an investigator in the Epidemiology Branch of NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)

Lifting off at 7:05 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 41 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rocket's launch was timed to put the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, on an exact course to reach the asteroid Bennu in August 2018.

(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)

Kennedy disease, agammaglobulinemia, and others.

(HUMARA Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

I find, however, a short note at the end of my manuscript dealing with this case, in which I have put it upon record that Miss Violet Smith did indeed inherit a large fortune, and that she is now the wife of Cyril Morton, the senior partner of Morton & Kennedy, the famous Westminster electricians.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers were expecting to find the beginning signs of possible atypical brain development, said James A. Griffin, Ph.D., deputy chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch at NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which supported the research.

(Atypical brain development observed in preschoolers with ADHD symptoms, National Institutes of Health)