RUSSELL

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• RUSSELL (noun)
  The noun RUSSELL has 7 senses:

1. United States religious leader who founded the sect that is now called Jehovah's Witnesses (1852-1916)

2. English film director (born in 1927)

3. United States basketball center (born in 1934)

4. United States entertainer remembered for her roles in comic operas (1861-1922)

5. United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957)

6. Irish writer whose pen name was A.E. (1867-1935)

7. English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)

  Familiarity information: RUSSELL used as a noun is common.

• RUSSELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States religious leader who founded the sect that is now called Jehovah's Witnesses (1852-1916)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Charles Taze Russell; Russell

Instance hypernyms:

religious leader (leader of a religious order)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English film director (born in 1927)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell; Ken Russell; Russell

Instance hypernyms:

film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States basketball center (born in 1934)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bill Russell; Russell; William Felton Russell

Instance hypernyms:

center ((basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States entertainer remembered for her roles in comic operas (1861-1922)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lillian Russell; Russell

Instance hypernyms:

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry Norris Russell; Henry Russell; Russell

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Irish writer whose pen name was A.E. (1867-1935)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

A.E.; George William Russell; Russell

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 7

Meaning:

English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bertrand Arthur William Russell; Bertrand Russell; Earl Russell; Russell

Instance hypernyms:

logician; logistician (a person skilled at symbolic logic)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

 Context examples 

The Jack Russell Terrier Smooth is a smooth-coated variety of the Jack Russell Terrier.

(Jack Russell Terrier, Smooth, NCI Thesaurus)

If we can persuade your father to all this, said Lady Russell, looking over her paper, much may be done.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The Jack Russell Terrier Wire is a wire-coated variety of the Jack Russell Terrier.

(Jack Russell Terrier, Wire, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the time it takes a plasma sample to clot after adding dilute Russell's viper venom.

(Dilute Russell's Viper Venom Time Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the ratio of the dilute Russell's viper venom time in a subject sample to a control sample.

(Dilute Russell's Viper Venom Time to Control Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Last year I came up to London for the Jubilee, and I stopped at a boarding-house in Russell Square, because Parker, the vicar of our parish, was staying in it.

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

A relative measurement (ratio or percentage) of the dilute Russell's viper venom time in a subject sample to a control sample.

(Dilute Russell's Viper Venom Time to Control Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The Parson Russell was formally known as the Jack Russell Terrier.

(Jack Russell Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

Causes include acromegaly, Hurler syndrome, Silver-Russell syndrome, and thalassemia major.

(Frontal Bossing, NCI Thesaurus)

The anticoagulant blocks in vitro assembly of the prothrombinase complex, resulting in prolongation of in vitro clotting assays such as the activated partial thromboplastin time, the russell viper venom time, and others.

(Lupus Anticoagulant Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)