English Dictionary: Earl Russell |
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Earl Russell
n 1: English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with
Whitehead (1872-1970) [syn: {Russell}, {Bertrand Russell},
{Bertrand Arthur William Russell}, {Earl Russell}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- Earl Warren
- n
- United States jurist who served as chief justice of the
United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)
Synonym(s): Warren, Earl Warren
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- earlier
- adv
- earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before";
"as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier"
Synonym(s): earlier, before
- comparatives of `soon' or `early'; "Come a little sooner, if you can"; "came earlier than I expected"
Synonym(s): sooner, earlier
- before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
Synonym(s): in the first place, earlier, in the beginning, to begin with, originally
- adj
- (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than;
most early; "a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"
Synonym(s): earlier, earliest
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- early warning radar
- n
- a radar that is part of an early warning system
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- early warning system
- n
- a network of radar installations designed to detect enemy
missiles or aircraft while there is still time to intercept them
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Early \Ear"ly\, a. [Compar. {Earlier} ([etil]r"l[icr]*[etil]r);
superl. {Earliest}.] [OE. earlich. [root]204. See {Early},
adv.]
1. In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season;
prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to
{late}; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
--Burke.
The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass
springing up about them. --Hawthorne.
2. Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the
first of successive acts, events, etc.
Seen in life's early morning sky. --Keble.
The forms of its earlier manhood. --Longfellow.
The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth
summer. --J. C.
Shairp.
{Early English} (Philol.) See the Note under {English}.
{Early English architecture}, the first of the pointed or
Gothic styles used in England, succeeding the Norman style
in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Syn: Forward; timely; not late; seasonable.
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