DAVIS

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• DAVIS (noun)
  The noun DAVIS has 6 senses:

1. English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)

2. United States painter who developed an American version of cubism (1894-1964)

3. United States jazz musician; noted for his trumpet style (1926-1991)

4. American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1808-1889)

5. United States tennis player who donated the Davis Cup for international team tennis competition (1879-1945)

6. United States film actress (1908-1989)

  Familiarity information: DAVIS used as a noun is common.

• DAVIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Davis; Davys; John Davis; John Davys

Instance hypernyms:

navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States painter who developed an American version of cubism (1894-1964)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Davis; Stuart Davis

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States jazz musician; noted for his trumpet style (1926-1991)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Davis; Miles Davis; Miles Dewey Davis Jr.

Instance hypernyms:

jazz musician; jazzman (a musician who plays or composes jazz music)

Sense 4

Meaning:

American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1808-1889)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Davis; Jefferson Davis

Instance hypernyms:

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States tennis player who donated the Davis Cup for international team tennis competition (1879-1945)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Davis; Dwight Davis; Dwight Filley Davis

Instance hypernyms:

tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)

Sense 6

Meaning:

United States film actress (1908-1989)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bette Davis; Davis

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

 Context examples 

Added lead author Eric Post, a UC Davis ecologist, Many of the changes over the past decade are so dramatic they make you wonder what the next decade of warming will bring.

(Warming at the poles will have global consequences, National Science Foundation)

The air was dark with Davises, and many Joneses gamboled like a flock of young giraffes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But we really don't know why, said Charles B. Stephensen, research leader of the Immunity and Disease Prevention Research Unit at the ARS Western Regional Human Nutrition Center in Davis, California.

(Gut Bacteria from Breastfeeding Linked to Improved Infant Response to Vaccines, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

"We show that the paradox of nitrogen is literally 'written in stone,'" said co-author Scott Morford of UC Davis.

(New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth’s bedrock, National Science Foundation)

“Davis was a man too, by all accounts,” said Silver.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Rosen WG, Mohs RC, Davis KL. A new rating scale for Alzheimer's disease.

(Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive CDISC Version Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists from the University of Bristol and UC Davis say zebras may have gotten their stripes to confuse ectoparasites, such as flies.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

Plant biologists at University of California, Davis have discovered how sunflowers use their internal circadian "clocks," acting on growth hormones, to follow the sun during the day as they grow.

(Sunflowers move from east to west, and back, by the clock, NSF)

No two were exactly the same, explained molecular biologist Danielle G. Lemay at the ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center in Davis, California.

(Humans More Unique than Expected When It Comes to Digesting Fatty Meals, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The last two days he was always by the side of Charlotte Davis: I pitied his taste, but took no notice of him.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)