herb robert | (n) a sticky low herb with small reddish-purple flowers; widespread in the northern hemisphere, Syn. herb roberts, Geranium robertianum, herbs robert |
robert | (n) United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923), Syn. Henry M. Robert, Henry Martyn Robert |
robert e lee's birthday | (n) celebrated in southern United States, Syn. January 19, Lee's Birthday, Robert E Lee Day |
roberts | (n) United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943), Syn. Richard John Roberts, Richard J. Roberts |
roberts | (n) United States evangelist (born 1918), Syn. Oral Roberts |
roberts | (n) United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957), Syn. Kenneth Roberts |
roberts | (n) a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722), Syn. Bartholomew Roberts |
robertson | (n) United States basketball guard (born in 1938), Syn. Oscar Robertson, Oscar Palmer Robertson |
robert's rules of order | (n) a book of rules for presiding over a meeting; written by Henry M. Martin in 1876 and subsequently updated through many editions |
adam | (n) Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792), Syn. Robert Adam |
ashe | (n) United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993), Syn. Arthur Robert Ashe, Arthur Ashe |
barany | (n) Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936), Syn. Robert Barany |
bartlett | (n) United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946), Syn. Robert Abram Bartlett, Captain Bob, Robert Bartlett |
bellarmine | (n) Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621), Syn. Cardinal Bellarmine, Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine, Bellarmino |
benchley | (n) United States humorist (1889-1945), Syn. Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley |
boyle | (n) Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691), Syn. Robert Boyle |
brown | (n) Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858), Syn. Robert Brown |
browning | (n) English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889), Syn. Robert Browning |
bruce | (n) king of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329), Syn. Robert the Bruce, Robert I |
bunsen | (n) German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899), Syn. Robert Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen |
burns | (n) celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796), Syn. Robert Burns |
clive | (n) British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774), Syn. Baron Clive, Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey |
curl | (n) American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933), Syn. Robert Floyd Curl Jr., Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl |
darwin | (n) English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882), Syn. Charles Darwin, Charles Robert Darwin |
de niro | (n) United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943), Syn. Robert De Niro |
fischer | (n) United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943), Syn. Robert James Fischer, Bobby Fischer |
frisch | (n) British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979), Syn. Otto Robert Frisch, Otto Frisch |
frost | (n) United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963), Syn. Robert Lee Frost, Robert Frost |
fulton | (n) American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815), Syn. Robert Fulton |
goddard | (n) United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945), Syn. Robert Hutchings Goddard |
graves | (n) English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985), Syn. Robert Graves, Robert Ranke Graves |
gray | (n) American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806), Syn. Robert Gray |
heinlein | (n) United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988), Syn. Robert Anson Heinlein, Robert A. Heinlein |
herrick | (n) English lyric poet (1591-1674), Syn. Robert Herrick |
hooke | (n) English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703), Syn. Robert Hooke |
hutchins | (n) United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977), Syn. Robert Maynard Hutchins |
indiana | (n) United States pop artist (born 1928), Syn. Robert Indiana |
joffrey | (n) United States choreographer (1930-1988), Syn. Robert Joffrey |
jones | (n) United States golfer (1902-1971), Syn. Bobby Jones, Robert Tyre Jones |
kirchhoff | (n) German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887), Syn. G. R. Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff |
koch | (n) German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910), Syn. Robert Koch |
lasalle | (n) French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687), Syn. Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle |
lee | (n) American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870), Syn. Robert Edward Lee, Robert E. Lee |
limestone fern | (n) yellow-green fern of rocky areas of northern hemisphere, Syn. northern oak fern, Gymnocarpium robertianum |
livingston | (n) American Revolutionary leader who served in the Continental Congress and as minister to France (1746-1813), Syn. Robert R. Livingston |
lowell | (n) United States poet (1917-1977), Syn. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr., Robert Lowell |
macgregor | (n) Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734), Syn. Rob Roy, Robert MacGregor |
malthus | (n) an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834), Syn. Thomas Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus |
marley | (n) Jamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981), Syn. Bob Marley, Robert Nesta Marley |
marquis | (n) humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937), Syn. Donald Robert Perry Marquis, Don Marquis |
盖茨 | [Gài cí, ㄍㄞˋ ㄘˊ, 盖 茨 / 蓋 茨] Gates (name); Bill Gates (1955-), chairman of Microsoft; Robert Gates (1943-), US Secretary of Defense since 2006 #18,010 [Add to Longdo] |
罗伯特 | [Luó bó tè, ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄅㄛˊ ㄊㄜˋ, 罗 伯 特 / 羅 伯 特] Robert (name) #23,370 [Add to Longdo] |
赫德 | [Hè dé, ㄏㄜˋ ㄉㄜˊ, 赫 德] Hart or Herd (name); Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served fifty years in Qing customs office #26,134 [Add to Longdo] |
舒曼 | [Shū màn, ㄕㄨ ㄇㄢˋ, 舒 曼] Schumann (name); Robert Schumann (1810-1856), romantic composer #62,864 [Add to Longdo] |
胡克 | [Hú kè, ㄏㄨˊ ㄎㄜˋ, 胡 克] Hook or Hooke (name); Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor #63,949 [Add to Longdo] |
鲁宾 | [Lǔ bīn, ㄌㄨˇ ㄅㄧㄣ, 鲁 宾 / 魯 賓] Rubin (name); Robert E. Rubin (1938-), US Treasury Secretary 1995-1999 under President Clinton #77,575 [Add to Longdo] |
穆加贝 | [Mù jiā bèi, ㄇㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄅㄟˋ, 穆 加 贝 / 穆 加 貝] Robert Mugabe (1924-), Zimbabwean ZANU-PF politician, President of Zimbabwe 1980-2008 #83,835 [Add to Longdo] |
玻意耳 | [Bō yì ěr, ㄅㄛ ㄧˋ ㄦˇ, 玻 意 耳] Robert Boyle (1627-1691), English chemist [Add to Longdo] |