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name
A Scottish habitational surname from Old English from a place where there was once a settlement in the Scottish borders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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name
A suburb of Newcastle in the Maitland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
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name
A neighbourhood in south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Napa County, California.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Bergen County, New Jersey.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.
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noun
An obsolete unit of radioactivity (symbol: rd), defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nuclei decay per second.
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British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford of Nelson
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Broader terms: physicist
noun
British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Daniel Rutherford
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Broader terms: chemist
noun
a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second
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Broader terms: radioactivity unit
History
From Old English hryþer (“cattle”) + ford (“ford”). The first element is from Proto-Germanic *hrunþaz.
After Ernest Rutherford.
