CORNELL

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

1. United States actress noted for her performances in Broadway plays (1893-1974)

2. United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)

  Familiarity information: CORNELL used as a noun is rare.

• CORNELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States actress noted for her performances in Broadway plays (1893-1974)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cornell; Katherine Cornell

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cornell; Ezra Cornell

Instance hypernyms:

businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)

 Context examples 

“Plastic debris acts like a marine motorhome for microbes,” says Joleah Lamb, research fellow at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and lead author of the study.

(Plastic debris linked to coral disease, death, SciDev.Net)

"We found a new way to make volcanoes," says geologist Esteban Gazel of Cornell University.

(Scientists discover a new way volcanoes form, NSF)

A Cornell University-led team that included Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists found that apple orchards with diverse bee species yield more, high-quality fruit than orchards with fewer, closely related bee species.

(Diverse Bee Communities Best for Apple Orchards, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

"The data suggest that something is not right, so to speak, inside Mimas," said Radwan Tajeddine, a Cassini research associate at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and lead author on the paper.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

"Our research mainly focuses on the acceleration required to get the water out of the ear canal," said Anuj Baskota, Undergraduate Researcher at Cornell University College of Engineering.

(Shaking head to free water in ears could cause brain damage in kids, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But the Cornell scientists are interested in long-term fatigue life, or how many cycles of loading a bone can bear before it breaks.

(Discovery may lead to osteoporosis treatment, National Science Foundation)

"The traditional thinking about these exceptionally preserved fossil sites is wrong," said lead author Drew Muscente of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)

The new paper, led by Alex Hayes at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, finds that Titan's seas follow a constant elevation relative to Titan's gravitational pull — just like Earth's oceans.

(Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth, NASA)

In a study, Cornell University scientists report evidence of metal pollution creating danger for soft coral sea fans.

(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)

"Most people think that fat is associated with something bad, but it's more complicated than that," said Dr. Lo, who is also a member of the Weill Center for Metabolic Health and the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine.

(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)