ALLEN

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

1. United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964)

2. United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)

3. a soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British (1738-1789)

  Familiarity information: ALLEN used as a noun is uncommon.

• ALLEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Allen; Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen; Gracie; Gracie Allen

Instance hypernyms:

comedienne (a female comedian)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Allen; Allen Stewart Konigsberg; Woody Allen

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British (1738-1789)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Allen; Ethan Allen

Instance hypernyms:

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

 Context examples 

Led by Dr. Ed Lein at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, researchers studied 4 donated, intact human prenatal brains—2 from 15–16 weeks and 2 from 21 weeks post-conception.

(An Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, NIH)

Mrs. Allen was quite struck by his genius.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"At best, adult frogs normally grow back only a featureless, thin, cartilaginous spike," says senior author Michael Levin, developmental biologist at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

BB: The development of lymphocytic thyroiditis is not affected by iodine treatment according to Allen (1992), though Ebner et al (1992) found the opposite.

(BB, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

By comparing the energies of the particles, it is possible to distinguish the fission-generated particles and those naturally occurring in the Van Allen belts.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

Earth's dual radiation belts, known as the Van Allen belts, are layers of energetic particles held in place by the planet's magnetic field.

(Six-decade-old space mystery solved with shoebox-sized satellite called a CubeSat, National Science Foundation)

Late on Jan. 20, 2016, the Van Allen Probes observed chorus waves from its lofty vantage point and immediately after, FIREBIRD II saw microbursts.

(FIREBIRD II and NASA Mission Locate Whistling Space Electrons’ Origins, NASA)

"But Mr. Allen says, 'Leave out the explanations, make it brief and dramatic, and let the characters tell the story'," interrupted Jo, turning to the publisher's note.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At one end was the forge of Champion Harrison, with his house behind it, and at the other was Mr. Allen’s school.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Allen says the document "scrambles the names of the signers" and "they are no longer grouped by state."

(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)