BRUCE

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

1. Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)

2. king of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)

  Familiarity information: BRUCE used as a noun is rare.

• BRUCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bruce; David Bruce; Sir David Bruce

Instance hypernyms:

bacteriologist (a biologist who studies bacteria)

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

Sense 2

Meaning:

King of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bruce; Robert I; Robert the Bruce

Instance hypernyms:

king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)

 Context examples 

He said J Bruce Ismay, President of the firm behind construction of RMS Titanic, ordered the twelve men tasked to attempting to control the fire to avoid informing passengers.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

A second group of BIR-domain-containing proteins (BIRPs) include mammalian Bruce and Survivin proteins, as well as BIR-containing proteins in yeasts and C. elegans.

(BIR Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

As for Cartwright Bruce, Martin knew that he was the one critic for whose opinions Brissenden had any respect.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Merlin Burrows CEO Bruce Blackburn says his company used satellite data to comb an area that the group believed may have been the location of the thriving city.

(Researchers Claim to Have Found Mythical City of Atlantis in Spain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Zealandia was first named in 1995 by American scientist Bruce Luyendyk.

(Researchers Argue for Eighth Continent: Zealandia, VOA)

After I had graduated I continued to devote myself to research, occupying a minor position in King’s College Hospital, and I was fortunate enough to excite considerable interest by my research into the pathology of catalepsy, and finally to win the Bruce Pinkerton prize and medal by the monograph on nervous lesions to which your friend has just alluded.

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

Cartwright Bruce was described as the greatest critic in America, and he was quoted as saying that "Ephemera" was the greatest poem ever written in America.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There's Bruce, and Virginia Spring, and Sedgwick.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We have submitted the poem to Mr. Cartwright Bruce, the editor went on to say, and he has reported so favorably upon it that we cannot let it go.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)