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SMITH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable)
Synonyms:
metalworker; smith
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("smith" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smith"):
blacksmith (a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil)
forger (someone who operates a forge)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who works at something specified
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("smith" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smith"):
arrowsmith (a maker of arrows)
gunsmith (someone who makes or repairs guns)
locksmith (someone who makes or repairs locks)
tinner; tinsmith (someone who makes or repairs tinware)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)
Synonyms:
Adam Smith; Smith
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
economic expert; economist (an expert in the science of economics)
Sense 4
Meaning:
English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)
Synonyms:
Captain John Smith; John Smith; Smith
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844)
Synonyms:
Joseph Smith; Smith
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Latter-Day Saint; Mormon (a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
Sense 6
Meaning:
United States blues singer (1894-1937)
Synonyms:
Bessie Smith; Smith
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
Sense 7
Meaning:
United States suffragist who refused to pay taxes until she could vote (1792-1886)
Synonyms:
Julia Evelina Smith; Smith
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
suffragist (an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women))
Sense 8
Meaning:
United States singer noted for her rendition of patriotic songs (1909-1986)
Synonyms:
Kate Smith; Kathryn Elizabeth Smith; Smith
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
Sense 9
Meaning:
United States sculptor (1906-1965)
Synonyms:
David Roland Smith; David Smith; Smith
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker (an artist who creates sculptures)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)
Synonyms:
Ian Douglas Smith; Ian Smith; Smith
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)
Context examples:
Professor Craig Smith, head of EOS Space Systems, the Australian company that is developing the junk-busting devices, explained how it would work.
(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)
Smith is lead author of a paper on this research, along with co-authors from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)
"This study provides a new perspective on the largest mass extinction event in Earth's history," said Dena Smith, a program director in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.
(Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous, National Science Foundation)
Our results suggest that astrocytes actively help control the rhythm of breathing, said Jeffrey C. Smith, Ph.D., senior investigator at the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)
Then he led him by dark passages to a smith’s forge, took an axe, and with one blow struck an anvil into the ground.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The smith, after several attempts, made the smallest that ever was seen among them, for I have known a larger at the gate of a gentleman’s house in England.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Smith's fast retreat and thinning are likely related to the shape of its underlying bedrock.
(Studies Offer New Glimpse of Melting Under Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)
Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If the original hunting grounds of the Greenland Norse, around Disko Bay, were overexploited, they may have journeyed as far north as Smith Sound to find sufficient herds of walrus, said Barrett.
(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)
There was talk of it in Bordeaux, answered the archer, and I saw myself that the armorers and smiths were as busy as rats in a wheat-rick.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
