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MORLEY

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MORLEY (noun)
  The noun MORLEY has 1 sense:

1. United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923)play

  Familiarity information: MORLEY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


MORLEY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

E. W. Morley; Edward Morley; Edward Williams Morley; Morley

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)


 Context examples 


One day last spring, in town, I was in company with two men, striking instances of what I am talking of; Lord St Ives, whose father we all know to have been a country curate, without bread to eat; I was to give place to Lord St Ives, and a certain Admiral Baldwin, the most deplorable-looking personage you can imagine; his face the colour of mahogany, rough and rugged to the last degree; all lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs of a side, and nothing but a dab of powder at top. 'In the name of heaven, who is that old fellow?' said I to a friend of mine who was standing near, (Sir Basil Morley).

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)



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