MICHAEL

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• MICHAEL (noun)
  The noun MICHAEL has 1 sense:

1. (Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews

  Familiarity information: MICHAEL used as a noun is very rare.

• MICHAEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

archangel (an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

 Context examples 

Thus did Michael Dennin, under sentence of death, make public confession of his crime.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The Ad Hoc Working Group was headed by J. Michael Bishop and Paul Calabresi.

(Bishop-Calabresi Report, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, lack-a-day! did God ever put breath into such a fool as Michael Easover of Romsey?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The most commonly consumed vitamin and mineral supplements provide no consistent health benefit or harm, suggests a new study led by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto.

(Most Popular Supplements Provide No Health Benefit, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Without enough sharks, the grazers could devour the underwater grass beds, Michael Heithaus of Florida International University (FIU) has found.

(Sharks, the seagrass protectors, National Science Foundation)

It is a consortium made up of Baylor College of Medicine and its three primary teaching hospital affiliates: Ben Taub Hospital, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Texas Children's Hospital.

(Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

This previously unknown effect of nitrate, a common pollutant, shows how complex ecosystem interactions could result in reducing the carbon-holding ability of salt marshes said Michael Sieracki, program director for Biological Oceanography.

(Salt marshes' capacity to store carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution, National Science Foundation)

"At best, adult frogs normally grow back only a featureless, thin, cartilaginous spike," says senior author Michael Levin, developmental biologist at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dr Michael Price of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory measured the distance that the photo-exited states travelled, which reached distances of 200 nanometres – 20 times further than was previously possible.

(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)

Instead of building a telescope so big that it would probably collapse under its own weight, we combined eight observatories like the pieces of a giant mirror, said Michael Bremer, an astronomer at the International Research Institute for Radio Astronomy (IRAM) and a project manager for the Event Horizon Telescope.

(Astronomers Piece Together First Image of Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)