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MARTIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various swallows with squarish or slightly forked tail and long pointed wings; migrate around Martinmas
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("martin" is a kind of...):
swallow (small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "martin"):
Delichon urbica; house martin (common small European martin that builds nests under the eaves of houses)
bank martin; bank swallow; Riparia riparia; sand martin (swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks)
Progne subis; purple martin (large North American martin of which the male is blue-black)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States singer (1917-1995)
Synonyms:
Dean Martin; Dino Paul Crocetti; Martin
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States actress (1913-1990)
Synonyms:
Martin; Mary Martin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
actress (a female actor)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States actor and comedian (born in 1945)
Synonyms:
Martin; Steve Martin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)
Sense 5
Meaning:
French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)
Synonyms:
Martin; St. Martin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
Context examples:
University of Alaska glaciologist Martin Truffer and colleagues pointed to a number of factors in their 2013 study.
(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)
Stripes may dazzle flies in some way once they are close enough to see them with their low-resolution eyes, said study co-author and Royal Society University Research Fellow Martin How.
(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)
Dr Martin Worthington’s new research analysing the word play in the story has uncovered the duplicitous language of a Babylonian god called Ea, who was motivated by self-interest.
(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)
After a 10-month journey, confirmation of successful orbit insertion was received from MAVEN data observed at the Lockheed Martin operations center in Littleton, Colorado, as well as from tracking data monitored at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory navigation facility in Pasadena, California.
(Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet, NASA)
The results show a strong link between pesticides and colon cancer mortality and as such cannot be ignored, says co-author Francis Martin, based at the University of Central Lancashire’s School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences.
(Pesticides blamed for rise in colon cancer deaths, SciDev.Net)
It would have grieved me to lose your acquaintance, which must have been the consequence of your marrying Mr. Martin.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Martin Eden got off at this corner.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“My lord,” cried Don Martin, “I cannot stand there to hear such words of my master. Did they come from other lips, I should know better how to answer them.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Inspector Martin had the good sense to allow my friend to do things in his own fashion, and contented himself with carefully noting the results.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One was in a court close to St. Martin's Church—at the back of the church,—which is now removed altogether.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
