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ROBERT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
Synonyms:
Henry M. Robert; Henry Martyn Robert; Robert
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
parliamentarian (an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures)
Context examples:
I am also much indebted to my friends Mr. J. C. Parkinson and Robert Barr for information upon the subject of the ring.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A group led by Dr. Robert Yolken at Johns Hopkins University has been studying the links between viral infections and brain development.
(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)
"Now there is a recognition of the importance of how the leaf area is arrayed in three dimensions," says study author Robert Fahey, a forest ecologist at UConn.
(Structural complexity in forests improves carbon capture, National Science Foundation)
New research led by Colby College geologist Robert Gastaldo has revealed the most definitive proof to date that the extinctions did not occur at the same time.
(Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous, National Science Foundation)
Rules created by Robert Sidney Cahn, Christopher Kelk Ingold and Vladimer Prelog to name stereoisomers in organic chemistry.
(Cahn-Ingold-Prelog Priority System, NCI Thesaurus)
Drs. Daniel Baldauf and Robert Desimone of the McGovern Institute at MIT set out to gain a better understanding.
(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)
Research at the Center is integrated with the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, School of Public Health, and several schools and departments of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Princeton University.
(Cancer Institute of New Jersey, NCI Thesaurus)
He got his friend Ward, who came on with us, to order a bouquet for me, and the first thing I saw in my room was a lovely one, with "Robert Lennox's compliments," on the card.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
What this tells us is that not only are many of our immune responses shaped in the first year of life, but also that certain bacteria and allergens play an important role in stimulating and training the immune system to behave a certain way, says principal investigator Dr. Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
I left my poor wife big with child, and accepted an advantageous offer made me to be captain of the Adventurer, a stout merchantman of 350 tons: for I understood navigation well, and being grown weary of a surgeon’s employment at sea, which, however, I could exercise upon occasion, I took a skilful young man of that calling, one Robert Purefoy, into my ship.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
