Edward Appleton
1: English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966) [syn: {Appleton}, {Sir Edward Victor Appleton}]
Edward Benjamin Britten
1: major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976) [syn: {Britten}, {Benjamin Britten}, {Lord Britten of Aldeburgh}]
Edward Bouverie Pusey
1: English theologian who (with John Henry Newman and John Keble) founded the Oxford Movement (1800-1882) [syn: {Pusey}, {Edward Pusey}]
Edward Calvin Kendall
1: United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972) [syn: {Kendall}, {Edward Kendall}]
Edward Estlin Cummings
1: United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962) [syn: {cummings}, {e. e. cummings}]
Edward Fitzgerald
1: English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883) [syn: {Fitzgerald}]
Edward G. Robinson
1: United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973) [syn: {Robinson}, {Edward Goldenberg Robinson}]
Edward Gibbon
1: English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794) [syn: {Gibbon}]
Edward Goldenberg Robinson
1: United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973) [syn: {Robinson}, {Edward G. Robinson}]
Edward I
1: King of England from 1272 to 1307; conquered Wales (1239-1307)
Edward II
1: King of England from 1307 to 1327 and son of Edward I; was defeated at Bannockburn by the Scots led by Robert the Bruce; was deposed and died in prison (1284-1327)
Edward III
1: son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years' War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of ...
Edward IV
1: King of England from 1461 to 1470 and from 1471 to 1483; was dethroned in 1470 but regained the throne in 1471 by his victory at the battle of Tewkesbury (1442-1483)
Edward James Muggeridge
1: United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (1830-1904) [syn: {Muybridge}, {Eadweard Muybridge}]
Edward Jean Steichen
1: United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973) [syn: {Steichen}]
Edward Jenner
1: English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823) [syn: {Jenner}]
Edward Kendall
1: United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972) [syn: {Kendall}, {Edward Calvin Kendall}]
Edward Kennedy Ellington
1: United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader (1899-1974) [syn: {Ellington}, {Duke Ellington}]
Edward Lawrie Tatum
1: United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975) [syn: {Tatum}]
Edward Lear
1: British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888) [syn: {Lear}]
Edward MacDowell
1: United States composer best remembered as a composer of works for the piano (1860-1908) [syn: {MacDowell}]
Edward Morley
1: United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923) [syn: {Morley}, {E. W. Morley}, {Edward Williams Morley}]
Edward Osborne Wilson
1: United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929) [syn: {Wilson}, {E. O. Wilson}]
Edward Pusey
1: English theologian who (with John Henry Newman and John Keble) founded the Oxford Movement (1800-1882) [syn: {Pusey}, {Edward Bouverie Pusey}]
Edward R. Murrow
1: United States broadcast journalist remembered for his reports from London during World War II (1908-1965) [syn: {Murrow}, {Edward Roscoe Murrow}]
Edward Roscoe Murrow
1: United States broadcast journalist remembered for his reports from London during World War II (1908-1965) [syn: {Murrow}, {Edward R. Murrow}]
Edward Sapir
1: anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939) [syn: {Sapir}]
Edward Teach
1: an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) [syn: {Teach}, {Thatch}, {Edward Thatch}, {Blackbeard}]
Edward Teller
1: United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bombs and the first hydrogen bomb (born in 1908) [syn: {Teller}]
Edward Thatch
1: an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) [syn: {Teach}, {Edward Teach}, {Thatch}, {Blackbeard}]
Edward the Confessor
1: son of Ethelred the Unready; King of England from 1042 to 1066; he founded Westminster Abbey where he was eventually buried (1003-1066) [syn: {Saint Edward the Confessor}, {St. Edward the Confessor...
Edward the Elder
1: king of Wessex whose military success against the Danes made it possible for his son Athelstan to become the first king of all England (870-924)
Edward the Martyr
1: King of England who was a son of Edgar; he was challenged for the throne by supporters of his half-brother Ethelred II who eventually murdered him (963-978) [syn: {Saint Edward the Martyr}, {St. Ed...
Edward V
1: King of England who was crowned at the age of 13 on the death of his father Edward IV but was immediately confined to the Tower of London where he and his younger brother were murdered (1470-1483)
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
1: the most decorated United States combat pilot in World War I (1890-1973) [syn: {Rickenbacker}, {Eddie Rickenbacker}]
Edward VI
1: King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553)
Edward VII
1: King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910) [syn: {Albert Edward}]
Edward VIII
1: King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972) [syn: {Duke of Windsor}]
Edward Vincent Sullivan
1: United States host on a well known television variety show (1902-1974) [syn: {Sullivan}, {Ed Sullivan}]
Edward Weston
1: United States photographer(1886-1958) [syn: {Weston}]
Edward Williams Morley
1: United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923) [syn: {Morley}, {E. W. Morley}, {Edward Morley}]
Edward Winslow
1: English colonial administrator who traveled to America on the Mayflower and served as the first governor of the Plymouth Colony (1595-1655) [syn: {Winslow}]
Edward Wyllis Scripps
1: United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926) [syn: {Scripps}]
Edwardian
1: of or relating to or characteristic of the era of Edward VII in England; "Edwardian furniture" n : someone belonging to (or as if belonging to) the era of Edward VII
Edwards
1: American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758) [syn: {Jonathan Edwards}]
Edwin
1: king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)
Edwin Herbert Land
1: United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991) [syn: {Land}, {Din Land}]
Edwin Hubble
1: United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance (1889-1953) [syn: {Hubble}, {Edwin Powell Hubble}]
Edwin Powell Hubble
1: United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance (1889-1953) [syn: {Hubble}, {Edwin Hubble}]
Edwy
1: King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959) [syn: {Eadwig}]
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EE
1: the branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication [syn: {electrical engine...
EEC
1: an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members; "he took Britain into Europe" [syn: {European Unio...
EEG
1: a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph [syn: {electroencephalogram}, {encephalogram}]
eel
1: the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled 2: voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy us...
eelblenny
1: eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters
eelgrass
1: submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts [syn: {grass wrack}, {sea wrack}, {Zostera marina}] 2: submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike lea...
eelgrass family
1: used in some classifications: essentially equivalent to Potamogetonaceae [syn: {Zosteraceae}, {family Zosteraceae}]
eellike
1: resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous
eelpout
1: marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas [syn: {pout}] 2: elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth [syn: {burbot}, ...
eelworm
1: any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms
eerie
1: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu" [syn: {eery}, {spooky}] 2: so strange as to inspire a feeling of fear; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods";...
eerily
1: in an unnatural eery manner; "it was eerily quiet in the chapel" [syn: {spookily}]
eeriness
1: strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear [syn: {ghostliness}]
Eero Saarinen
1: United States architect (born in Finland) (1910-1961) [syn: {Saarinen}]
eery
1: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu" [syn: {eerie}, {spooky}] 2: so strange as to inspire a feeling of fear; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"...
eff
1: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: {roll in the hay}, {love}, {make out}, {make love}, {sl...
efface
1: remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" [syn: {obliterate}] 2: make inconspicuous; "efface onself" 3: remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "P...
effaceable
1: capable of being effaced; "the fire's worst scars were effaceable by a comprehensive program of reforestation"; "a signal too loud to be erasable in a single pass through the erase head" [syn: {er...
effacement
1: shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor 2: withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous [syn: {self-effacement}]
effect
1: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acte...
effected
1: settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact" [syn: {accomplished}, {established}]
effecter
1: one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose [syn: {effector}]
effective
1: producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumf...
effectively
1: in an effective manner; "these are real problems that can be dealt with most effectively by rational discussion" [syn: {efficaciously}] [ant: {inefficaciously}, {inefficaciously}] 2: in actuality o...
effectiveness
1: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect [syn: {effectivity}, {effectualness}, {effectuality}] [ant: {ineffectiveness}] 2: capacity to produce strong physiological ...
effectivity
1: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect [syn: {effectiveness}, {effectualness}, {effectuality}] [ant: {ineffectiveness}]
effector
1: one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose [syn: {effecter}] 2: a nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion 3: an organ (a...
effects
1: property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business; "she left some of her personal effects in the house"; "I watched over their effects until they returned" [syn: {personal ...
effectual
1: sufficient to produce a result; "a man to whom painting was but another and less effectual way of writing dramas or novels or history" [ant: {ineffectual}] 2: producing or capable of producing an i...
effectuality
1: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect [syn: {effectiveness}, {effectivity}, {effectualness}] [ant: {ineffectiveness}]
effectually
1: in an effectual manner; "Bismarck was constantly criticised by the more liberal newspapers, and he retaliated by passing an emergency decree that effectually muzzled the press" [ant: {ineffectually...
effectualness
1: power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect [syn: {effectiveness}, {effectivity}, {effectuality}] [ant: {ineffectiveness}]
effectuate
1: produce; "The scientists set up a shockwave" [syn: {effect}, {bring about}, {set up}]
effectuation
1: the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect [syn: {implementation}]
effeminacy
1: the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) [syn: {effeminateness}, {sissiness}, {womanishness}, {unmanliness}]
effeminate
1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: {emasculate}, {epicene}, {cissy}, {sissified}, {sissyish}, {sissy}] 2: characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence; "an effeminate civilization...
effeminateness
1: the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) [syn: {effeminacy}, {sissiness}, {womanishness}, {unmanliness}]
effeminize
1: to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; "This hairdo feminizes the man" [syn: {feminize}, {feminise}, {erreminise}, {womanize}]
effendi
1: a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials
efferent
1: of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS; "efferent nerves and impulses" [syn: {motorial}] [ant: {afferent}]
efferent neuron
1: a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord [syn: {motor neuron}, {motor nerve fiber}, {motoneuron}]
effervesce
1: form bubbles; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn: {foam}, {froth}, {fizz}, {sparkle}]
effervescence
1: the process of bubbling as gas escapes 2: the property of giving off bubbles [syn: {bubbliness}, {frothiness}]
effervescent
1: used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide; "sparkling wines"; "sparkling water" [syn: {sparkling}] [ant: {still}] 2: (of a liquid) giving off bubbles [ant: {no...
effervescing
1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: {bubbling}, {bubbly}, {foaming}, {foamy}, {frothy}]
effete
1: marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals" [syn: {decadent}]
efficacious
1: marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficaci...
efficaciously
1: in an effective manner; "these are real problems that can be dealt with most effectively by rational discussion" [syn: {effectively}] [ant: {inefficaciously}, {inefficaciously}]
efficaciousness
1: capacity or power to produce a desired effect; "concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine" [syn: {efficacy}] [ant: {inefficacy}]
efficacy
1: capacity or power to produce a desired effect; "concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine" [syn: {efficaciousness}] [ant: {inefficacy}]
efficiency
1: the ratio of the output to the input of any system 2: skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort; "she did the work with great efficiency" [ant: {inefficiency}]
efficiency engineer
1: an expert in increasing the efficient use of machines and personnel [syn: {efficiency expert}]
efficiency expert
1: an expert in increasing the efficient use of machines and personnel [syn: {efficiency engineer}]
efficient
1: being effective without wasting time or effort or expense; "an efficient production manager"; "efficient engines save gas" [ant: {inefficient}] 2: able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectiv...
efficiently
1: in an efficient manner; "he functions efficiently" [syn: {expeditiously}, {with efficiency}] [ant: {inefficiently}]
effigy
1: a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" [syn: {image}, {simulacrum}]
effleurage
1: a rhythmic stroking; "effleurage of the abdomen is used in the Lamaze method of childbirth"
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