HENRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Henry mean? 

• HENRY (noun)
  The noun HENRY has 4 senses:

1. a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second

2. English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)

3. a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)

4. United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)

  Familiarity information: HENRY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HENRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

H; henry

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

inductance unit (a measure of the property of an electric circuit by which an electromotive force is induced in it)

Meronyms (parts of "henry"):

abhenry (a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry)

millihenry (a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry; William Henry

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry; Patrick Henry

Instance hypernyms:

American Revolutionary leader (a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States)

orator; public speaker; rhetorician; speechifier; speechmaker (a person who delivers a speech or oration)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry; Joseph Henry

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

Henry, squatting over the fire and settling the pot of coffee with a piece of ice, nodded.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This was the letter that I read aloud to Tarp Henry, who had come down early to hear the result of my venture.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The latter name made me tremble when pronounced by Henry, and I hastened to quit Matlock, with which that terrible scene was thus associated.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"By Jove, she has taste!" exclaimed Henry Lynn.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was no effort to Catherine to believe that Henry Tilney could never be wrong.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“I suppose, Lanyon,” said he, “you and I must be the two oldest friends that Henry Jekyll has?”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Martin got two tumblers, and fell to reading the book of verse, Henry Vaughn Marlow's latest collection.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“If the husband’s name was James, and the other was Henry, what was this talk about David?”

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

The henry is a large unit; inductances in practical circuits are measured in millihenrys or microhenrys.

(Henry, NCI Thesaurus)