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TRACY
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• TRACY (noun)
The noun TRACY has 1 sense:
1. United States film actor who appeared in many films with Katharine Hepburn (1900-1967)
Familiarity information: TRACY used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States film actor who appeared in many films with Katharine Hepburn (1900-1967)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Spencer Tracy; Tracy
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
Context examples
"We know warming oceans pose a threat to coral reefs around the world," said Allison Tracy, who conducted the work with marine scientist Drew Harvell.
(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)
All of those things are valuable, in terms of this technology's utility in biomedical or aerospace applications, says Joe Tracy, a professor of materials science and engineering at NC State.
(Technique uses magnets, light to control and reconfigure soft robots, National Science Foundation)
Meg, as the eldest, was Samuel Pickwick, Jo, being of a literary turn, Augustus Snodgrass, Beth, because she was round and rosy, Tracy Tupman, and Amy, who was always trying to do what she couldn't, was Nathaniel Winkle.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In the laboratory, Tracy discovered that sea fans initially launched an immune response to infection at low levels of copper and temperature stress, but when copper concentrations were boosted, the sea fans’ immune response failed.
(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)
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