SCRIPPS

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

1. United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926)

2. United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908)

  Familiarity information: SCRIPPS used as a noun is rare.

• SCRIPPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward Wyllis Scripps; Scripps

Instance hypernyms:

newspaper publisher; publisher (the proprietor of a newspaper)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Edmund Scripps; Scripps

Instance hypernyms:

newspaper publisher; publisher (the proprietor of a newspaper)

 Context examples 

A new study by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests there could be a million times more pieces of plastic in the ocean than previously estimated.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

A team led by Dr. Floyd E. Romesberg of the Scripps Research Institute aimed to expand the genetic code itself, thereby enabling greater flexibility toward creating new biomaterials.

(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)

A research team led by Dr. Min Guo of the Scripps Research Institute investigated how borrelidin interferes with threonyl-tRNA synthetase.

(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)

The new map is twice as accurate as the previous version produced nearly 20 years ago, say the researchers, who are affiliated with California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and other institutions.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)

James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D., of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, and Ian A. Wilson, D. Phil., of The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California, led the team.

(Human antibody reveals hidden vulnerability in influenza virus, National Institutes of Health)

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have found that low oxygen levels in seawater could blind some marine invertebrates.

(Low ocean oxygen levels can blind sea creatures, National Science Foundation)

New research lends credence to an unorthodox retelling of the story of early Earth that was first proposed by a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)

We suspect that previous studies have overlooked the emergence of this shallow horizon by averaging data from different models rather than looking at individual models, said co-author Gabriela Negrete-Garcia of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)

To answer that question, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) Assistant Professor Supriya Srinivasan, senior author of the new study and her colleagues experimented with roundworms called C. elegans, which are often used as model organisms in biology.

(Scientists Find Brain Hormone That Triggers Fat Burning, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The new findings, by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California, San Diego, moved the research team a step closer to unraveling the mysteries of this powerful group of chemical compounds, known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).

(Bacteria living in marine sponge produce toxic compounds found in man-made products, NSF)