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DAVID

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Overview

DAVID (noun)
  The noun DAVID has 3 senses:

1. patron saint of Wales (circa 520-600)play

2. French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)play

3. (Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)play

  Familiarity information: DAVID used as a noun is uncommon.


English dictionary: Word details


DAVID (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Patron saint of Wales (circa 520-600)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

David; Saint David; St. David

Instance hypernyms:

patron saint (a saint who is considered to be a defender of some group or nation)


Sense 2

Meaning:

French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

David; Jacques Louis David

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)


Sense 3

Meaning:

(Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)


 Context examples 


“And how is Master David?” he says, kindly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On my pressing her, however, she remembered that she heard the word ‘David’ uttered twice by the lady.

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

A standardized rating scale originally developed by David A. Karnofsky and Joseph H. Burchenal in 1949 which is used to evaluate the degree to which a patient is functionally impaired.

(Karnofsky Performance Status Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

David Kaplan, Ph.D., is director of the center and led the research efforts to develop the tissue.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

The FACT-Cognitive Function questionnaire is a 37 item measure developed by Dr. David Cella to evaluate knowledge and information processing.

(FACT-Cognitive Function, NCI Thesaurus)

"The great migrations of the world have been inspiring people for hundreds of years," said David Toews, a biologist at Penn State and leader of the research team.

(New insights into genetic basis of bird migration, National Science Foundation)

"We know that the structure of a storm affects whether the storm can produce hail," said NCAR scientist David John Gagne, who led the research team.

(Facial recognition technique could improve hail forecasts, National Science Foundation)

"This study reveals how environmental change can affect subtle ecosystem dynamics in kelp forests," said David Garrison, a program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences.

(In search of an undersea kelp forest's missing nitrogen, National Science Foundation)

The study covered relatively few patients by scientific standards, and David Albertini of the Center for Human Reproduction in New York has suggested the cells may not actually be freshly grown.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)

"This discovery forces us to re-examine our models of how stellar-mass black holes form," said LIGO Director Prof. David Reitze from the University of Florida in the US.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)



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