pratt

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Definition von pratt im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Point Refuted A Thousand Times

A surname known in England, Ireland, and Scotland

An English and Irish surname, from the nickname of a trickster

William Henry Pratt Pratt Institute Pratt Edwin John Pratt Francis Ashbury

Relevante Übersetzungen

Pratt Institute

Private institution of higher learning in Brooklyn, New York, New York, U.S. It was founded as a trade school in 1887 by the industrialist Charles Pratt (1830-91). It comprises schools of architecture, art and design (for which it is especially renowned), liberal arts and sciences, professional studies, and information and library science. It has both bachelor's and master's degree programs

E J Pratt

born Feb. 4, 1883, Western Bay, Nfd., Can. died April 26, 1964, Toronto, Ont. Canadian poet. He trained for the ministry and later taught for many years at the University of Toronto. The early collection The Titans (1926) contains his widely read "The Cachalot," an account of a whale hunt. Brébeuf and His Brethren (1940), perhaps his best work, chronicles the martyrdom of Jesuit missionaries. Later collections include Dunkirk (1941), They Are Returning (1945), Behind the Log (1947), and Towards the Last Spike (1952)

Edwin John Pratt

born Feb. 4, 1883, Western Bay, Nfd., Can. died April 26, 1964, Toronto, Ont. Canadian poet. He trained for the ministry and later taught for many years at the University of Toronto. The early collection The Titans (1926) contains his widely read "The Cachalot," an account of a whale hunt. Brébeuf and His Brethren (1940), perhaps his best work, chronicles the martyrdom of Jesuit missionaries. Later collections include Dunkirk (1941), They Are Returning (1945), Behind the Log (1947), and Towards the Last Spike (1952)

Francis Ashbury Pratt

born Feb. 15, 1827, Woodstock, Vt., U.S. died Feb. 10, 1902, Hartford, Conn. U.S. inventor. With Amos Whitney he founded the Pratt & Whitney Co. in Hartford to manufacture machine tools. He was instrumental in bringing about adoption of a standard system of gauges. He also invented a metal-planing machine (1869), a gear cutter (1884), and a milling machine (1885)

Türkische aussprache

prät

Aussprache

/ˈprat/ /ˈpræt/

Etymologie

[ 'prat ] (biographical name.) Probably from French pré (meadow), meaning a meadow dweller; from Old French prat, from Latin pratum. Another proposed source is Old English prætt (trick, cunning, astute).