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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Professor (informally also known as full professor ) is the highest academic rank at universities and other institutions of higher education in parts of the world. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A teacher or faculty member at a college or university. 2 A higher ranking for a teacher or faculty member at a college or university. Abbreviated Prof. 3 An honorific title for a higher ranking teacher. (Capitalised) 4 (context archaic English) One ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "one who teaches a branch of knowledge," from Old French professeur (14c.) and directly from Latin professor "person who professes to be an expert in some art or science; teacher of highest rank," agent noun from profiteri "lay claim to, declare ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a university lecturer/professor ▪ Her father was a university lecturer and her mother a teacher. assistant professor associate professor full professor/member/colonel etc ▪ Only full members have the right to vote. visiting ...
Usage examples of professor.
However, Professor Schleiermacher was a specimen of that noble type of scientific men to whom gold was merely the rare metal Au, and diamonds merely the element C in the scarcest of its manifold allotropic embodiments.
Guy Patin, Dean of the Faculty of Paris, Professor at the Royal College, Author of the Antimonial Martyrology, a wit and a man of sense and learning, who died almost two hundred years ago, had come to the same conclusion, though the chemists of his time boasted of their remedies.
Gallagher, the surgeon for the appendectomy, had a firmer grip on his emotions than the medical-school professor had.
I still wish I knew why Professor Rossi was compelled to write to me that he did not know about our archive here, which seems a lie, does it not?
Professor Helman at the university is working on a bacteriophage which could provide the answer.
Bean sleeping bag 4,000 feet up in a frosty meadow thirty miles south of Lake Tahoe wrapped around a skinny naked thirty-something beardy professor of mathematics from a fairly undistinguished new university who has always been a hell of a lot luckier at cards than at love?
And I am asked to lend my chaise and the cattle I have hired to a bedlamite Scotch professor to go seeking a fantastic name through the length of England!
A tincture of allied berries was used of old by ladies of fashion in the land of the Pharaohs, as discovered among the mummy graves by Professor Baeyer, of Munich.
The world knows your phenomenal skill in billiards, Professor, a talent second only to your amazing aptitude in theoretical physics.
Nathan Twining of the AAF and then USAF Air Material Command Professor Donald Menzel, Harvard astronomer and Naval Intelligence cryptography expert Vannevar Bush, Joint Research and Development Board Chairman Detlev Bronk, Chairman of the National Research Council and biologist who would ultimately be named to the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.
It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet.
She was a friend of Gene Tunney, Grover Whalen, Dwight Fiske, the Duke of Westminster, Heywood Broun, Professor Millikan and Representative Sol Bloom.
In the International Journal of Ethics for April, 1904, there appeared an article in defence of animal experimentation by Professor Charles S.
America raised, not in condemnation of all experimentation upon animals, but solely in protest against its cruelty and secrecy, and in appeal for its reform, was that of the leading American surgeon of his time, Professor Henry J.
Yet another was the little black Hydrops ferox, as the Professor named him.