LINDSAY

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

1. United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931)

2. United States poet who traveled the country trading his poems for room and board (1879-1931)

  Familiarity information: LINDSAY used as a noun is rare.

• LINDSAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Howard Lindsay; Lindsay

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States poet who traveled the country trading his poems for room and board (1879-1931)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lindsay; Nicholas Vachel Lindsay; Vachel Lindsay

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

Lindsay sees a future where malaria-sniffing dogs greet travelers at ports of entry, helping medical personnel sniff out infected travelers.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

Lindsay says the team from Medical Detection Dogs is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop what he calls an e-nose.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

Lindsay also sees the possibility that dogs like Freya could sniff out a host of other infectious diseases.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

Lindsay points out that dogs are already being used to sniff out diseases like cancers, and Parkinson's disease.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

"If you're trying to find that last few hot spots," Lindsay says, "rather than screening everyone, the dogs might be good enough to go into the villages to find people."

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

Lead investigator Steve Lindsay says he got the idea for training dogs to sniff out malaria after a visit overseas, when he saw dogs sniffing for all kinds of contraband.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

"People with malaria smell differently," Lindsay told VOA, so he thought, why not see if dogs could detect tiny traces of the disease.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

But he says any useful kind of e-nose is at least five to 10 years away, because while Lindsay says the e-noses are about as good as ours, they're not as good as a dog's nose which is anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 times as acute as our own.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)