ANDERSON

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• ANDERSON (noun)
  The noun ANDERSON has 5 senses:

1. United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941)

2. United States physicist who studied the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1923-)

3. United States dramatist (1888-1959)

4. United States contralto noted for her performance of spirituals (1902-1993)

5. United States physicist who discovered antimatter in the form of an antielectron that is called the positron (1905-1991)

  Familiarity information: ANDERSON used as a noun is common.

• ANDERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anderson; Sherwood Anderson

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States physicist who studied the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1923-)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anderson; Phil Anderson; Philip Anderson; Philip Warren Anderson

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States dramatist (1888-1959)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anderson; Maxwell Anderson

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States contralto noted for her performance of spirituals (1902-1993)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anderson; Marian Anderson

Instance hypernyms:

contralto (a woman singer having a contralto voice)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States physicist who discovered antimatter in the form of an antielectron that is called the positron (1905-1991)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anderson; Carl Anderson; Carl David Anderson

Instance hypernyms:

nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)

 Context examples 

We struck the enclosure about the middle of the south side, and almost at the same time, seven mutineers—Job Anderson, the boatswain, at their head—appeared in full cry at the southwestern corner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You are quizzing me and Miss Anderson.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A team of scientists lead by Dr. Raghu Kalluri of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center searched for biomarkers on tiny, fluid-filled sacs called exosomes.

(Method for Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer, NIH)

There are also plans to test the technology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

"Hail - particularly large hail - can have significant economic impacts on agriculture and property," said Nick Anderson, a program officer in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences.

(Facial recognition technique could improve hail forecasts, National Science Foundation)

When team members analyzed those lab products, they detected spectral features that matched up well with the distinctive signature that had been extracted from the Titan data by Carrie Anderson, a Cassini participating scientist at Goddard and a co-author on this study.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

He spoke so kindly, and opened Hans Anderson's fairy tales so invitingly before me, that I was more ashamed than ever, and went at my lesson in a neck-or-nothing style that seemed to amuse him immensely.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Anderson was in command of my boat, and instead of keeping the crew in order, he grumbled as loud as the worst.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Edmund, you have heard me mention Charles Anderson.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The head of Job Anderson, the boatswain, appeared at the middle loophole.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)