TAYLOR

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

1. United States composer and music critic (1885-1966)

2. United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932)

3. 12th President of the United States; died in office (1784-1850)

  Familiarity information: TAYLOR used as a noun is uncommon.

• TAYLOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States composer and music critic (1885-1966)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Deems Taylor; Joseph Deems Taylor; Taylor

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

music critic (a critic of musical performances)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Elizabeth Taylor; Taylor

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

12th President of the United States; died in office (1784-1850)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

President Taylor; Taylor; Zachary Taylor

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

 Context examples 

Miss Taylor has been used to have two persons to please; she will now have but one.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This was in part due to Edgar Taylor, who made the first English translation in 1823, selecting about fifty stories “with the amusement of some young friends principally in view.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Based on finding two cores in the galaxy, instead of one, Taylor and his collaborators concluded in 2006 that it contained a pair of supermassive black holes.

(First-Ever Black-Hole 'Visual Binary' Revealed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"Our new technique could prove to be a game-changer for many types of cellular research," says Taylor.

(Cell chemistry illuminated by laser light, National Science Foundation)

If your biologic age is younger than your chronologic age, you may have decreased risk of developing breast cancer, said corresponding author Jack Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., head of the NIEHS Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology Group.

(Older biologic age linked to elevated breast cancer risk, National Institutes of Health)

But by this time we had all long ceased to pay any particular notice to the song; it was new, that night, to nobody but Dr. Livesey, and on him I observed it did not produce an agreeable effect, for he looked up for a moment quite angrily before he went on with his talk to old Taylor, the gardener, on a new cure for the rheumatics.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mrs. Taylor told me of it half an hour ago, and she was told it by a particular friend of Miss Grey herself, else I am sure I should not have believed it; and I was almost ready to sink as it was.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Thorpe, however, had one great advantage as a talker, over Mrs. Allen, in a family of children; and when she expatiated on the talents of her sons, and the beauty of her daughters, when she related their different situations and views—that John was at Oxford, Edward at Merchant Taylors', and William at sea—and all of them more beloved and respected in their different station than any other three beings ever were, Mrs. Allen had no similar information to give, no similar triumphs to press on the unwilling and unbelieving ear of her friend, and was forced to sit and appear to listen to all these maternal effusions, consoling herself, however, with the discovery, which her keen eye soon made, that the lace on Mrs. Thorpe's pelisse was not half so handsome as that on her own.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Poor Mr. and Miss Woodhouse, if you please; but I cannot possibly say 'poor Miss Taylor.'

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Now, Gordon Taylor of Stony Brook University and colleagues have devised a photochemical technique that suppresses fluorescence in sample preparation.

(Cell chemistry illuminated by laser light, National Science Foundation)