HALDANE

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• HALDANE (noun)
  The noun HALDANE has 4 senses:

1. Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)

2. Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)

3. Scottish writer and sister of Richard Haldane and John Haldane (1862-1937)

4. Scottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928)

  Familiarity information: HALDANE used as a noun is uncommon.

• HALDANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Haldane; J. B. S. Haldane; John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

Instance hypernyms:

geneticist (a biologist who specializes in genetics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Haldane; John Haldane; John Scott Haldane

Instance hypernyms:

physiologist (a biologist specializing in physiology)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Scottish writer and sister of Richard Haldane and John Haldane (1862-1937)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Elizabeth Haldane; Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane; Haldane

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

Scottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

First Viscount Haldane of Cloan; Haldane; Richard Burdon Haldane; Richard Haldane

Instance hypernyms:

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

 Context examples 

The CBA mouse from Strong (1920) was disseminated to Jackson Laboratory and then onto Haldane and Gruneberg (1932) and finally onto Carter (1947).

(CBA/Ca Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)