SCIENTIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scientist mean? 

• SCIENTIST (noun)
  The noun SCIENTIST has 1 sense:

1. a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCIENTIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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

bibliotist (someone who engages in bibliotics)

social scientist (someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships)

investigator; research worker; researcher (a scientist who devotes himself to doing research)

radiologic technologist (a scientist trained in radiological technology)

psychologist (a scientist trained in psychology)

PI; principal investigator (the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist (a specialist in paleontology)

oceanographer (a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas)

mineralogist (a scientist trained in mineralogy)

microscopist (a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes)

medical scientist (a scientist who studies disease processes)

mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)

linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)

geologist (a specialist in geology)

computer scientist (a scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers)

cognitive scientist (a scientist who studies cognitive processes)

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

cosmographer; cosmographist (a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography)

Instance hyponyms:

Bacon; Roger Bacon (English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292))

Benjamin Franklin; Franklin (printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790))

Francis Galton; Galton; Sir Francis Galton (English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911))

Harvey; William Harvey (English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657))

Hooke; Robert Hooke (English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term 'cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703))

Derivation:

science (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

 Context examples 

To further test the ability of the scaffold to remove toxins, the scientists mixed red blood cells with melittin treated with the detoxification device.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

Scientists don't yet know the cause.

(Meniere's Disease, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

Scientists and doctors at these centers do basic laboratory research and clinical trials, and they study the patterns, causes, and control of cancer in groups of people.

(Comprehensive cancer center, NCI Dictionary)

The scientists combined findings from 19 large studies.

(Omega-3s linked with lower risk of fatal heart attacks, NIH)

The discovery could help scientists better understand how brown dwarfs generate magnetic fields.

(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)

A scientist who has special training in the study of the chemicals and processes that occur in all living things.

(Biochemist, NCI Dictionary)

If you are a scientist, you may be working in the lab and be close to a breakthrough (watch December 15 for that).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Through this program, community physicians work with scientists conducting NCI-supported clinical trials.

(Community Clinical Oncology Program, NCI Thesaurus)

My friend took the lady’s ungloved hand, and examined it with as close an attention and as little sentiment as a scientist would show to a specimen.

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

We were ushered into a dim-lit drawing-room, where an instant later we were joined by a very tall, handsome, light-bearded man of fifty, the younger brother of the dead scientist.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)