JOHNS HOPKINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Johns Hopkins mean? 

• JOHNS HOPKINS (noun)
  The noun JOHNS HOPKINS has 2 senses:

1. United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)

2. a university in Baltimore

  Familiarity information: JOHNS HOPKINS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOHNS HOPKINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hopkins; Johns Hopkins

Instance hypernyms:

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A university in Baltimore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Holonyms ("Johns Hopkins" is a part of...):

Baltimore (the largest city in Maryland; a major seaport and industrial center)

 Context examples 

A group led by Dr. Robert Yolken at Johns Hopkins University has been studying the links between viral infections and brain development.

(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)

However, the findings may point to possible treatments for hair loss/graying and skin wounds in people, the team from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said.

(New Experimental Drug Reverses Hair Loss, Skin Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

According to researchers at the Smithsonian Institution and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, rain on Mars once carved river beds and created valleys much like rain on Earth has, and does.

(Heavy Rain May Have Once Fallen on Mars, VOA)

We expected more symmetry between the southern and northern summer, said Elizabeth Turtle of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) team that captured the image.

(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)

Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

The study was conducted by Xiaobing Wang, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, and colleagues.

(Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism, National Institutes of Health)

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, examined high-resolution compositional data from more than 100 gully sites throughout Mars.

(Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA)

Researchers of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore analyzed data on 1,442 mother-child pairs from the Boston Birth Cohort, a large observational study that aims to determine the causes of preterm birth.

(New study suggests high lead levels during pregnancy linked to child obesity, National Institutes of Health)

The team, which includes researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, has used the Hubble telescope over the past six years to refine the measurements of the distances to galaxies.

(Measuring Growth of Universe Reveals a Mystery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In their new study, a team of researchers headed by Drs. Akhilesh Pandey at Johns Hopkins University and Harsha Gowda at the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India, used an advanced form of mass spectrometry to sequence proteins and create a draft map of the human proteome.

(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)