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PHILIP

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Overview

PHILIP (noun)
  The noun PHILIP has 1 sense:

1. Englishman and husband of Elizabeth II (born 1921)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


PHILIP (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Englishman and husband of Elizabeth II (born 1921)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Duke of Edinburgh; Philip; Prince Philip

Instance hypernyms:

prince (a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign))


 Context examples 


I will go to Meryton, said she, as soon as I am dressed, and tell the good, good news to my sister Philips.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Here is the Hon. Philip Green, who is a fellow-lodger with you in this hotel, and we may find him the starting-point for a more successful investigation.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You will permit me to tell the story in my own way, Sir Philip,” said the Prince, with dignity.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A proprietary radiation therapy planning system developed by the Philips corporation.

(Philips Pinnacle, NCI Thesaurus)

More than 30 years since the discovery of the antidepressant effects of sleep deprivation, we still do not have an effective grasp on precisely how effective the treatment is and how to achieve the best clinical results, said study senior author Philip Gehrman.

(Sleep Deprivation: Effective Anti-Depressant, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Our findings indicate that doctors should not be afraid to use older red cells in critically ill children, said study co-principal investigator Philip Spinella, M.D., a researcher with the Pediatric Critical Care Translational Research Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)

Only half an hour before her friend called for her at Mrs. Goddard's, her evil stars had led her to the very spot where, at that moment, a trunk, directed to _The Rev. Philip Elton, White-Hart, Bath_, was to be seen under the operation of being lifted into the butcher's cart, which was to convey it to where the coaches past; and every thing in this world, excepting that trunk and the direction, was consequently a blank.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Pathogen zoospores germinate on the surface of liverworts and eventually colonise the liverwort tissues, but in some areas we saw an accumulation of a purple/red pigment in the liverwort tissues where the pathogen was rarely detected, said Dr Philip Carella, lead author of the study.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

It was the remark of the undertaker’s wife, as reported by Philip Green.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For two days the Hon. Philip Green (he was, I may mention, the son of the famous admiral of that name who commanded the Sea of Azof fleet in the Crimean War) brought us no news.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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