WELLS

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

1. prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)

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

• WELLS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

H. G. Wells; Herbert George Wells; Wells

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

For my part I walked ten miles, got a train at Tunbridge Wells, and so reached London, and no one the wiser.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, there are no established standards for private wells, from which millions of people get their drinking water.

(Low doses of arsenic cause cancer in male mice, NIH)

A flat dish type device with multiple wells for testing cellular material.

(Microwell Plate, NCI Thesaurus)

Titan has a global circulation pattern in which warm air in the summer hemisphere wells up from the surface and enters the stratosphere, slowly making its way to the winter pole.

(NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan's Stratosphere, NASA)

Mutation of the gene is associated with familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome, Muckle-Wells syndrome, and chronic infantile neurological cutaneous and articular syndrome.

(NLRP3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

To rescue the conversation from one of the wells of silence into which it kept falling, Jo said hastily, "Now you must have a good long holiday!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Though fossil waters—common in wells deeper than 250 metres—are found in major aquifers, their global extent and depth are not clearly understood.

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)

A standardized rating scale developed by Mahler and Wells in 1988, which is a general scale used to measure the rating of dyspnea or breathlessness.

(Modified Medical Research Council Dyspnea Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A flat dish with multiple individual wells that are arrayed in a standardized number, size, and arrangement.

(Microplate, NCI Thesaurus)

They drilled a series of wells and collected water samples to identify which microbes call the aquifer home and whether they're capable of consuming carbon.

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