ARMSTRONG

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• ARMSTRONG (noun)
  The noun ARMSTRONG has 2 senses:

1. United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)

2. United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971)

  Familiarity information: ARMSTRONG used as a noun is rare.

• ARMSTRONG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Armstrong; Neil Armstrong

Instance hypernyms:

astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Armstrong; Louis Armstrong; Satchmo

Instance hypernyms:

jazz musician; jazzman (a musician who plays or composes jazz music)

cornetist; trumpeter (a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet)

 Context examples 

Personally I am in agreement with Dr. Armstrong, and football does not come within my horizon.

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

Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon technically the next day, July 21, at 2:56 UTC.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We were surprised to see an exoplanet with the same high density, showing that Mercury-like planets are perhaps not as rare as we thought, Armstrong said.

(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"Using the NASA Kepler satellite, we were able to study light reflected from HAT-P-7b's atmosphere, finding that the atmosphere was changing over time,” said David Armstrong in Warwick's Astrophysics Group. "These results show that strong winds circle the planet, transporting clouds from the night side to the dayside.

(Exoplanet Could Have Clouds of Rubies, Sapphires, VOA)

“It’s a small step for the rover, but one giant leap for the Chinese nation,’’ Wu Weiren, the chief designer of the Lunar Exploration Project, said on state broadcaster CCTV, adapting American astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong’s famous message “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” when he stepped onto the lunar surface July 20, 1969.###!!!###

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

NASA's C-20A features a high-precision autopilot designed and developed by engineers at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, allowing the aircraft to fly the same flight lines this spring as those flown in 2013 within 15 feet (4.5 meters) or closer.

(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)

Holmes took a cab at the station and ordered the man to drive to the house of Dr. Leslie Armstrong.

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

Running low on fuel, Commander Neil Armstrong only had a few minutes to find a suitable spot to land, but he was finding only rocky terrain that was inappropriate to settle down on.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France, David Armstrong and colleagues at the University of Warwick’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Group independently detected the planet in the first instance, alongside researchers at the Universidade do Porto.

(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I caught a glimpse of Dr. Armstrong within, his shoulders bowed, his head sunk on his hands, the very image of distress.

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