SHAH

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

1. title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran

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

• SHAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Shah; Shah of Iran

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

crowned head; monarch; sovereign (a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right)

Instance hyponyms:

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi; Mohammed Reza Pahlevi; Pahlavi; Pahlevi; Shah Pahlavi (Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980))

 Context examples 

“People may worry about fire safety of bamboo buildings,” said Shah.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

A research team led by ecologists Sunita Shah Walter of the University of Delaware and Peter Girguis of Harvard University has shown that underground aquifers near the undersea Mid-Atlantic Ridge act like natural biological reactors, pulling in cold, oxygenated seawater, and allowing microbes to consume more refractory carbon than scientists believed.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)

“Cross-laminated timber is a popular choice of timber construction material. It’s made by gluing together layers of sawn timber, each at a right angle to the layer below,” said Shah.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

“Nature is an amazing architect. Bamboo is structured in a really clever way,” said Darshil Shah, a researcher in Cambridge University’s Department of Architecture, who led the study.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)