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SCOTT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858)
Synonyms:
Dred Scott; Scott
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
slave (a person who is owned by someone)
Sense 2
Meaning:
British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)
Synonyms:
Scott; Sir Walter Scott; Walter Scott
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (1786-1866)
Synonyms:
Scott; Winfield Scott
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)
Sense 4
Meaning:
English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)
Synonyms:
Robert Falcon Scott; Robert Scott; Scott
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999)
Synonyms:
George C. Scott; Scott
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
Context examples:
"Secular variation has been on the wish list of planetary scientists for decades," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
(NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field, NASA)
"We show that the paradox of nitrogen is literally 'written in stone,'" said co-author Scott Morford of UC Davis.
(New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth’s bedrock, National Science Foundation)
"The combination of creativity and analytical thinking has once again paid off big time for NASA," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
IceCube is an array of 5,160 optical sensors, each roughly two feet in diameter, deeply encased within a cubic kilometer of very clear Antarctic ice near NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)
“Great Scott!” cried the athlete.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If the lake then drains, the ice shelf will now flex back, rising up where the lake used to be, sinking down around the edge, said lead author Dr Alison Banwell, also from Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute.
(Surface lakes cause Antarctic ice shelves to ‘flex’, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The two galaxies, first discovered by the South Pole Telescope at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, were massive and star-filled at a time when the cosmos was less than a billion years old.
(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)
You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott; you are certain of his estimating their beauties as he ought, and you have received every assurance of his admiring Pope no more than is proper.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In the study, scientists led by Scott Parnell, Ph.D., at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, administered a variety of CBs alone and in combination with alcohol in varying amounts to mice on day eight of pregnancy, which is similar to the third and fourth weeks of pregnancy in humans.
(Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development, National Institutes of Health)
Scott Poethig, a plant biologist at Penn, and Aaron Leichty of the University of California, Davis, show that as part of an age-dependent phenomenon in plant development, the acacias develop the traits necessary to feed the ant colony: hollow, swollen thorns to house them; and nectaries and nutrient-rich leaflet tips called Beltian bodies to feed them.
(Between ants and acacias, timing is everything, National Science Foundation)
