WALTER

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

1. German conductor (1876-1962)

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

• WALTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German conductor (1876-1962)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bruno Walter; Walter

Instance hypernyms:

conductor; director; music director (the person who leads a musical group)

 Context examples 

“What’s the matter, Walters?” asked Baynes sharply.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This friend, and Sir Walter, did not marry, whatever might have been anticipated on that head by their acquaintance.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But there are many faces here which are new to me, though others have been before me since first I waited upon my dear master, Sir Walter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Created and published by the ADC Clinical Task Force (John C. Morris, MD, Chair) and the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (Walter A. Kukull, PhD, Director).

(Modified Hachinski Ischemic Scale-NACC Version Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Until now, we've only thought of thermokarst lakes as positive contributors to climate warming, said lead researcher Katey Walter Anthony, associate research professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

After decades of uncertainty about how to manage blood sugar in acute stroke patients we finally have strong clinical evidence that aggressive lowering does not improve patient outcome, said Walter Koroshetz, M.D., National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) director.

(Researchers get a handle on how to control blood sugar after stroke, National Institutes of Health)

Lead researcher Justin Boddey from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and University of Melbourne says, We have built on our previous studies, where we identified in the P. falciparum parasite an enzyme called plasmepsin V, an enzyme essential for the parasite to grow inside red blood cells.

(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)

A research team led by ecologists Sunita Shah Walter of the University of Delaware and Peter Girguis of Harvard University has shown that underground aquifers near the undersea Mid-Atlantic Ridge act like natural biological reactors, pulling in cold, oxygenated seawater, and allowing microbes to consume more refractory carbon than scientists believed.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)

The younger brother of the late Sir James Walter, the head of the Submarine Department.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Put on your cloak, then, and come, for Sir Walter Hewett and Sir Robert Briquet, with one or two others, are awaiting us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)