HOMER (homer)

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Irregular inflected form: homer   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Homer mean? 

• HOMER (noun)
  The noun HOMER has 5 senses:

1. a base hit on which the batter scores a run

2. ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)

3. an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs

4. United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910)

5. pigeon trained to return home

  Familiarity information: HOMER used as a noun is common.

• HOMER (verb)
  The verb HOMER has 1 sense:

1. hit a home run

  Familiarity information: HOMER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A base hit on which the batter scores a run

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

home run; homer

Hypernyms ("homer" is a kind of...):

base hit; safety ((baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "homer"):

solo blast; solo homer (a home run with no runners on base)

Derivation:

homer (hit a home run)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

Homeric (relating to or characteristic of Homer or his age or the works attributed to him)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

homer; kor

Hypernyms ("homer" is a kind of...):

capacity measure; capacity unit; cubage unit; cubature unit; cubic content unit; cubic measure; displacement unit; volume unit (a unit of measurement of volume or capacity)

Meronyms (parts of "homer"):

bath (an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons)

epha; ephah (an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Homer; Winslow Homer

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Pigeon trained to return home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

homer; homing pigeon

Hypernyms ("homer" is a kind of...):

domestic pigeon (domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "homer"):

carrier pigeon (a homing pigeon used to carry messages)

• HOMER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hit a home run

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "homer" is one way to...):

hit; rack up; score; tally (gain points in a game)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

homer (a base hit on which the batter scores a run)

 Context examples 

Homer Wright rosettes may be present.

(Classic Medulloblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Homer protein homolog 3 (361 aa, ~40 kDa) is encoded by the human HOMER3 gene.

(Homer Protein Homolog 3, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes homer protein homolog 3 protein, is involved in protein localization at the postsynaptic density.

(HOMER3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Homer was the taller and comelier person of the two, walked very erect for one of his age, and his eyes were the most quick and piercing I ever beheld.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It is one he values much, and I've often admired it, set up in the place of honor with his German Bible, Plato, Homer, and Milton, so you may imagine how I felt when he brought it down, without its cover, and showed me my own name in it, from my friend Friedrich Bhaer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If other studies confirm these findings, it might suggest that permitting allergen exposures, with increased exposure to certain microbes or to their sources, might be more successful in reducing asthma risk, says Dr. Homer Boushey of the University of California, San Francisco, another principal investigator.

(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)

The whole place was turned upside down, drawers burst open, and presses ransacked, with the result that an odd volume of Pope’s ‘Homer,’ two plated candlesticks, an ivory letter-weight, a small oak barometer, and a ball of twine are all that have vanished.

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

I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I introduced Didymus and Eustathius to Homer, and prevailed on him to treat them better than perhaps they deserved, for he soon found they wanted a genius to enter into the spirit of a poet. But Aristotle was out of all patience with the account I gave him of Scotus and Ramus, as I presented them to him; and he asked them, whether the rest of the tribe were as great dunces as themselves?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I proposed that Homer and Aristotle might appear at the head of all their commentators; but these were so numerous, that some hundreds were forced to attend in the court, and outward rooms of the palace.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)