WATSON

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• WATSON (noun)
  The noun WATSON has 3 senses:

1. United States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934)

2. United States psychologist considered the founder of behavioristic psychology (1878-1958)

3. United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)

  Familiarity information: WATSON used as a noun is uncommon.

• WATSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Thomas Augustus Watson; Watson

Instance hypernyms:

applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States psychologist considered the founder of behavioristic psychology (1878-1958)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Broadus Watson; Watson

Instance hypernyms:

psychologist (a scientist trained in psychology)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Dewey Watson; James Watson; Watson

Instance hypernyms:

geneticist (a biologist who specializes in genetics)

 Context examples 

You must admit, my dear Watson, that the idea of a joke is impossible.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will sign it, and Watson here can witness it.

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

“It’s this way, Watson,” said he at last.

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

Because, my dear Watson, I had the strongest possible reason for wishing certain people to think that I was there when I was really elsewhere.

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

We have surveyed in areas that traditional owners knew there were night parrots there, said Watson.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

Mutations in this allele are associated with type I neurofibromatosis, juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia and Watson syndrome.

(NF1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A commercial combination preparation, by Watson Pharmaceuticals, of acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine.

(Fioricet, NCI Thesaurus)

“This is the final stage of a decades-long chase to pin down the origin of the elements,” says Watson.

(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)

Mamma, cried Lydia, my aunt says that Colonel Forster and Captain Carter do not go so often to Miss Watson's as they did when they first came; she sees them now very often standing in Clarke's library.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"What we show is that the immune system functions best when it gets enough sleep. Seven or more hours of sleep is recommended for optimal health," said lead author Dr. Nathaniel Watson, co-director of the UW Medicine Sleep Center at Harborview Medical Center.

(Chronic Sleep Deprivation Suppresses Immune System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)