BOYLE

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

1. United States writer (1902-1992)

2. Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)

  Familiarity information: BOYLE used as a noun is rare.

• BOYLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer (1902-1992)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Boyle; Kay Boyle

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Boyle; Robert Boyle

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)