CARNEGIE

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

1. United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955)

2. United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)

  Familiarity information: CARNEGIE used as a noun is rare.

• CARNEGIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Carnegie; Dale Carnegie

Instance hypernyms:

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Andrew Carnegie; Carnegie

Instance hypernyms:

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)

 Context examples 

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and MIT approached the problem by using computational simulations of the mechanics of red blood cells as they pass through the spleen.

(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)

A team led by Carnegie Mellon University psychologists wanted to better understand if specific aspects of the family environment following a separation better predicted children's long-term health outcomes.

(How Parents' Separation Impacts Adult Kids, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The authors of this study, Leila Wehbe, Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department of the Carnegie Mellon University and Tom Mitchell, the department head, said the model is still inexact, but might someday be useful in studying and diagnosing reading disorders, such as dyslexia, or to track the recovery of patients whose speech was impacted by a stroke.

(Researchers identify brain regions that encode words, grammar, story, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have enabled a computer to understand the body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time — including, for the first time, the pose of each individual's fingers.

(Computer that Reads Body Language, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the University of Pittsburgh and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that the swim and tumble behavior bacteria use to move toward food or away from poisons changes when the bacteria encounter obstacles.

(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)

The team, including Carnegie's Eduardo Banados and led by Roberto Decarli of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, made this discovery by accident when investigating quasars, which are supermassive black holes that sit at the center of enormous galaxies, accreting matter.

(Stunning Star Birth in Earliest Galaxies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Renunciation, sacrifice, patience, industry, and high endeavor were the principles she thus indirectly preached—such abstractions being objectified in her mind by her father, and Mr. Butler, and by Andrew Carnegie, who, from a poor immigrant boy had arisen to be the book-giver of the world.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At the request of Mr. Gatsby we are going to play for you Mr. Vladimir Tostoff's latest work which attracted so much attention at Carnegie Hall last May.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)