name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Albert Sabin, medical researcher
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Standard Lemma guide
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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈseɪbɪn/
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CMU ARPABET: S EY1 B IH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A male given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Sabin Figaro, Final Fantasy character
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name
Meaning 3
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Clay County, Minnesota, named after Dwight M. Sabin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 4
A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 5
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Sylvan, Richland County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: acoustics
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noun
Meaning 7
United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Albert Sabin, Albert Bruce Sabin
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Broader terms: microbiologist
noun
Meaning 8
a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: absorption unit
History
Etymology
* As an English and French surname, from a personal name derived from Latin Sabinus. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Sabháin (“descendant of Sabhán”), from sabh (“cub”). Also found as Savage.
From Wallace Clement Sabine (1868-1919), US physicist.