GILBERT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gilbert mean? 

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

1. a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns

2. a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

3. English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)

4. English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)

5. United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)

  Familiarity information: GILBERT used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GILBERT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

Gb; Gi; gilbert

Hypernyms ("gilbert" is a kind of...):

magnetomotive force unit (a unit of measurement of magnetomotive force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gilbert; Sir William Gilbert; William Gilbert; William S. Gilbert; William Schwenk Gilbert

Instance hypernyms:

librettist (author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

Gilbertian (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gilbert; William Gilbert

Instance hypernyms:

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

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 4

Meaning:

English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gilbert; Humphrey Gilbert; Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cass Gilbert; Gilbert

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

 Context examples 

Mrs. Gilbert does not mean to dance, but there is a young lady disengaged whom I should be very glad to see dancing—Miss Smith.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Also called: Alagille Syndrome, Hepatic Diseases, Gilbert Disease

(Liver Diseases, NIH)

"My dear," said he to his lady, "it is very provoking that we should be so few. Why did not you ask the Gilberts to come to us today?"

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Representative examples of this condition include Gilbert syndrome and Crigler-Najjar syndrome.

(Hereditary Hyperbilirubinemia, NCI Thesaurus)

When we corrected the star's parameters, the sizes of its planets dropped, and we realized the outermost one was about the size of Earth and in the habitable zone, said Emily Gilbert, a graduate student at the University of Chicago.

(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)

Gilbert would have danced the other evening, if she had been asked.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Somebody said that Miss Gilbert was expected at her brother's, and must be invited with the rest.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And there will be the two Gilberts, young Cox, my father, and myself, besides Mr. Knightley.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

If Mrs. Gilbert wishes to dance, said he, I shall have great pleasure, I am sure—for, though beginning to feel myself rather an old married man, and that my dancing days are over, it would give me very great pleasure at any time to stand up with an old friend like Mrs. Gilbert.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)