ALI

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• ALI (noun)
  The noun ALI has 2 senses:

1. United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)

2. the fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites; he was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad; after his assassination Islam was divided into Shiite and Sunnite sects

  Familiarity information: ALI used as a noun is rare.

• ALI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ali; Cassius Clay; Cassius Marcellus Clay; Muhammad Ali

Instance hypernyms:

gladiator; prizefighter (a professional boxer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites; he was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad; after his assassination Islam was divided into Shiite and Sunnite sects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

calif; caliph; kalif; kaliph; khalif; khalifah (the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth)

 Context examples 

MBL is part of the mannan-binding lectin pathway (also known as the Ali/Krueger pathway), which has similarities to the classical complement pathway in that activation of C4 and C2 produce activated complement proteins further down the complement cascade.

(Mannose-Binding Lectin, NCI Thesaurus)