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cochrane

Word definitions for cochrane in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cochrane is a surname with multiple independent origins, two Scottish and one Irish. One of the Scottish names derives from a place in Scotland; the Irish surname and the other Scottish surname are both anglicisations of Gaelic language surnames.

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 435 Housing Units (2000): 197 Land area (2000): 0.720932 sq. miles (1.867205 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.720932 sq. miles (1.867205 sq. km) FIPS code: 16025 Located within: Wisconsin ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (surname) 2 A town in Alberta, Canada 3 A town and river in Chile 4 A town in Ontario, Canada 5 A village in Wisconsin

Usage examples of cochrane.

Nile, and that the tall, thin, foxy-haired man opposite was Lord Cochrane, the most dashing frigate captain in the Service.

Lord Cochrane seemed to be expressing the views of all, for a murmur of assent, with a mutter of hearty, deep-sea curses, ran round the circle.

Zephram Cochrane, the father of warp drive, giving a speech in front of a throng of scientists, including Henry Archer, a long time ago.

Zefram Cochrane in the twenty-first century and we saw Earth in a very distraught state.

It appeared near Cochrane, shimmering, resplendent with a dozen beautiful colors, to the sound of faint bells.

Companion was moving away from Cochrane, who was slowly returning to normal.

The Companion faded away, and Cochrane shook his head and looked about as if to get his bearings.

Companion was back, looking much the same as usual, but Cochrane was standing away from it, barely controlling himself, icily furious.

My father whispered in my ear that his neighbour was Captain Foley, of the Goliath, who led the van at the Nile, and that the tall, thin, foxy-haired man opposite was Lord Cochrane, the most dashing frigate captain in the Service.

Cochrane went on, "you smoke out its bilges, you put rat poison down, you know the ship's clean when you launch it, but your first night out you hear the scratch of claws and you know the little bastards are there!

Zefram Cochrane was aware only of the low whisper of the shuttlecrafi's air circulators, the soft hum of her engines, the warmth of the Companion's hand in his.

There followed at least twenty mysterious names and acts, among them,"THE COCHRANE FAMILY, Five in Number, comprising Sarah, Nellie, Maggie, Butch, and Bill, in their American Songs and Dances," "ROBB WILTON, who will open his New Budget of Comicalities, including his Impersonation of the Midland Railway Guard," "THE FLYING PONGO, Daredevil Aerialist," "YOUNG & DEAN, the Eminent Negro Entertainers," "The World-Renowned BOSQUET TROUPE in The Wild West," "BELLA BIJOU & LILY GRAY, Sensational Duetists," and so on.

Captain-General Bautista was a man of limited military imagination, but his one certainty was that artillery won wars, and by trying to sail the Espiritu Santo and the O'Higgins into Puerto Crucero's harbor, Cochrane was playing right into Bautista's unimaginative trap.

And all it would take for all those things to happen-for Vivar to die, for Bautista to triumph, for Cochrane to be humiliated, for Spain to win this war and for the whole history of the world to be nudged into a new course-was three companies of infantry.

And if Cochrane allowed his little army to spend too much time in Washington, the risk would grow by the hour that they might be cut off and captured by American forces coming to the capital city from the surrounding area.