HOPKINS

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

1. United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)

2. United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)

3. English poet (1844-1889)

4. English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)

5. Welsh film actor (born in 1937)

  Familiarity information: HOPKINS used as a noun is common.

• HOPKINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hopkins; Mark Hopkins

Instance hypernyms:

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

theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hopkins; Johns Hopkins

Instance hypernyms:

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

English poet (1844-1889)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gerard Manley Hopkins; Hopkins

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hopkins; Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Instance hypernyms:

biochemist (someone with special training in biochemistry)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Welsh film actor (born in 1937)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anthony Hopkins; Hopkins; Sir Anthony Hopkins; Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

 Context examples 

Hopkins was for leaving the door of the hut open, but Holmes was of the opinion that this would rouse the suspicions of the stranger.

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

Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

We expected more symmetry between the southern and northern summer, said Elizabeth Turtle of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) team that captured the image.

(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)

A group led by Dr. Robert Yolken at Johns Hopkins University has been studying the links between viral infections and brain development.

(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)

” If he weakly showed the least disposition to hear it, Captain Hopkins, in a loud sonorous voice, gave him every word of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways.

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

According to researchers at the Smithsonian Institution and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, rain on Mars once carved river beds and created valleys much like rain on Earth has, and does.

(Heavy Rain May Have Once Fallen on Mars, VOA)

The study was conducted by Xiaobing Wang, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, and colleagues.

(Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism, National Institutes of Health)

However, the findings may point to possible treatments for hair loss/graying and skin wounds in people, the team from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said.

(New Experimental Drug Reverses Hair Loss, Skin Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, examined high-resolution compositional data from more than 100 gully sites throughout Mars.

(Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA)