WALTON

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

1. English composer (1902-1983)

2. English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683)

3. Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)

  Familiarity information: WALTON used as a noun is uncommon.

• WALTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English composer (1902-1983)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Sir William Turner Walton; Sir William Walton; Walton; William Walton

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Izaak Walton; Walton

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

E. T. S. Walton; Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton; Ernest Walton; Walton

Instance hypernyms:

nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)

 Context examples 

If I do, swear to me, Walton, that he shall not escape, that you will seek him and satisfy my vengeance in his death.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Clinical manifestations include fever, headache, alterations of mentation, focal neurologic deficits, and COMA. (From Clin Microbiol Rev 1994 Jan;7(1):89-116; Walton, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, 10th ed, p321)

(Epidemic Encephalitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Yesterday the stranger said to me, You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Farewell, Walton!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I thank you, Walton, he said, for your kind intentions towards so miserable a wretch; but when you speak of new ties and fresh affections, think you that any can replace those who are gone?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Think not, Walton, that in the last moments of my existence I feel that burning hatred and ardent desire of revenge I once expressed; but I feel myself justified in desiring the death of my adversary.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)