ROGERS

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• ROGERS (noun)
  The noun ROGERS has 3 senses:

1. United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935)

2. United States dancer and film actress who partnered with Fred Astaire (1911-1995)

3. United States psychologist who developed client-centered therapy (1902-1987)

  Familiarity information: ROGERS used as a noun is uncommon.

• ROGERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Rogers; Will Rogers; William Penn Adair Rogers

Instance hypernyms:

humorist; humourist (someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States dancer and film actress who partnered with Fred Astaire (1911-1995)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ginger Rogers; Rogers; Virginia Katherine McMath; Virginia McMath

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

dancer; professional dancer; terpsichorean (a performer who dances professionally)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States psychologist who developed client-centered therapy (1902-1987)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Carl Rogers; Rogers

Instance hypernyms:

psychologist (a scientist trained in psychology)

 Context examples 

“With only two specimens to look at, these mathematical models were important to show that the differences between the two mammoths are too extreme to be explained by other factors,” Rogers said.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)

"We can't be 100 percent sure that everybody is accounted for... but each one of those homes that have been affected by fire will need to be looked at and just confirm that," NSW Rural Fire Service Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He saw himself, stripped to the waist, with naked fists, fighting his great fight with Liverpool Red in the forecastle of the Susquehanna; and he saw the bloody deck of the John Rogers, that gray morning of attempted mutiny, the mate kicking in death- throes on the main-hatch, the revolver in the old man's hand spitting fire and smoke, the men with passion-wrenched faces, of brutes screaming vile blasphemies and falling about him—and then he returned to the central scene, calm and clean in the steadfast light, where Ruth sat and talked with him amid books and paintings; and he saw the grand piano upon which she would later play to him; and he heard the echoes of his own selected and correct words, But then, may I not be peculiarly constituted to write?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“We found an excess of what looked like bad mutations in the mammoth from Wrangel Island,” Rogers said.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)

Here we got a rare chance to look at snapshots of genomes ‘before’ and ‘after’ a population decline in a single species, said Rebekah Rogers, who led the work as a postdoctoral scholar at Berkeley and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)