robinson

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family name

soyadı

Soyadınızın yazılışı nasıl? - What's the spelling of your family name?

Herhangi biri Tom'un soyadını biliyor mu? - Does anyone know Tom's family name?

before you could say jack robinson

kaşla göz arasında

before you could say jack robinson

göz açıp kapayıncaya kadar

family name

aile adı

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Aile adınızı nasıl hecelersiniz? - How do you spell your family name?

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Definition of robinson in English English dictionary

A male given name transferred from the surname

A patronymic surname derived from the given name Robin

an English surname derived from the given name Robin

Romanian-born American actor known for his portrayal of gangsters in motion pictures, including Little Caesar (1930). American poet whose works include long narratives and character studies of New Englanders, including "Miniver Cheevy" (1910). American baseball player who, during his career with the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles, became the first player named most valuable player of both the National (1961) and American (1966) leagues. American baseball player. The first African-American player in the major leagues in the 20th century, he was a second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1947-1956), had a lifetime batting average of.311, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. American historian who stressed the importance of social and intellectual events on the course of history. He was a founder of the New School for Social Research in New York City (1919). Irish lawyer and politician who served as the first woman president of Ireland (1990-1997). Her administration was marked by a series of controversial changes concerning civil rights and family law. American prizefighter who was world champion six times, once as a welterweight (1946-1951) and five times as a middleweight (1951-1960). Ray Charles Robinson George Geoffrey Robinson Henrietta Howland Robinson Jeffers John Robinson Luce Henry Robinson Robinson Bill Luther Robinson Robinson Edward G. Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson Frank Robinson Henry Peach Robinson Jackie Jack Roosevelt Robinson Robinson James Harvey Robinson Joan Violet Robinson Mary Robinson Smokey William Robinson Robinson Sugar Ray Squibb Edward Robinson

{i} family name

A male given name derived from the surname

United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973) United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935) United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972) United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936) Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958) United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989) English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe. the main character in the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. When Robinson Crusoe's ship sinks, he manages to reach a desert island (=a small tropical island with no people living on it) where he builds a home. Later he meets a black man whom he calls Man Friday, who becomes his servant and friend. They are both finally discovered by a British ship and taken home

Robinson Crusoe

{i} 1719 book by Daniel Defoe about a man who is stranded on a deserted island; hero of Daniel Defoe's book

Robinson Jeffers

born Jan. 10, 1887, Pittsburgh, Penn., U.S. died Jan. 20, 1962, Carmel, Calif., U.S. U.S. poet. Born to a wealthy family, he was educated in literature, medicine, and forestry. His lyrics express contempt for humanity and love of the harsh, eternal beauties of nature, notably the California coast near Carmel, where he moved in 1916. His third book, Tamar and Other Poems (1924), cemented his reputation and revealed the unique style and eccentric ideas he later developed in Cawdor (1928), Thurso's Landing (1932), and Be Angry at the Sun (1941)

robinson crusoe

the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island

Heath Robinson

Used in an attributive manner to describe anything ingenious but absurdly impractical

Mrs. Robinson

An older woman who seduces a younger man

Most women are seeking to be with a man they can trust to do this for them, so, if you want coaching, fess up, tell her you need a Mrs. Robinson, and you might get lucky.

before you can say Jack Robinson

Very quickly. Quicker than you expect

You have to be careful in that area. They'll have your wallet before you can say Jack Robinson.

Bill Robinson

orig. Luther Robinson known as Bojangles born May 25, 1878, Richmond, Va., U.S. died Nov. 25, 1949, New York, N.Y. U.S. tap dancer. He developed extraordinary tap-dancing skills as a child, became the first black performer to appear in white vaudeville shows, and was later the first black in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies. He is best known for his starring roles in films, notably the four he made with Shirley Temple and the all-black musical Stormy Weather (1943). His soft-shoe and tap routines were widely copied by other dancers, but he was unmatched for ingenuity in creating new steps, especially his famous "stair dance." He also was famed for a unique ability to run backward. See also tap dance

Edward G. Robinson

a US film actor who appeared as a gangster (=members of a group of violent criminals) in films such as Little Caesar (1930) and Key Largo (1948) (1893-1973). orig. Emmanuel Goldenberg born Dec. 12, 1893, Bucharest, Rom. died Jan. 26, 1973, Hollywood, Calif., U.S. Romanian-born U.S. film actor. He was raised in New York City's Lower East Side and won a scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Art. He was largely a stage actor until the advent of sound movies. He won fame playing a gangster boss in Little Caesar (1931). Short and chubby, with heavy features and a gruff voice, Robinson was content that his career would consist of rough-and-tumble roles and character parts. His later films include Barbary Coast (1935), Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944), Scarlet Street (1945), All My Sons (1948), Key Largo (1948), and The Cincinnati Kid (1965). In 1973 he was posthumously awarded an honorary Academy Award

Edward Robinson Squibb

born July 4, 1819, Wilmington, Del., U.S. died Oct. 25, 1900, Brooklyn, N.Y. U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer. He earned a medical degree and later worked on U.S. Navy ships; his work alerted him to the poor quality of the medicines supplied to the Navy, which he persuaded to manufacture its own drugs. At the Brooklyn Naval Hospital (from 1851) he devised a safe method for making anesthetic ether and also discovered processes for making chloroform, fluid extracts, and bismuth salts. In 1858 he set up his own Brooklyn laboratory; the Union Army during the Civil War relied heavily on his drugs, and by 1883 he was manufacturing 324 products and selling them around the world. A Quaker idealist, he refused to patent his medicines, and he crusaded for purity in drug manufacture. He did not live to see the culmination of his work: the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1904

Edwin Arlington Robinson

born Dec. 22, 1869, Head Tide, Maine, U.S. died April 6, 1935, New York, N.Y. U.S. poet. He attended Harvard briefly, then he endured years of poverty and obscurity before his poetry began to attract attention. He is best known for short dramatic lyrics about the lives (mostly tragic) of the people in a small New England village; these include "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy." Among his collections are The Children of the Night (1897), The Man Against the Sky (1916), and Collected Poems (1921, Pulitzer Prize). He also wrote long narrative poems, including Merlin (1917), Lancelot (1920), The Man Who Died Twice (1924, Pulitzer Prize), Tristram (1927, Pulitzer Prize), and Amaranth (1934)

Frank Robinson

born Aug. 31, 1935, Beaumont, Tex., U.S. U.S. baseball player and the first black manager in major league baseball. Robinson played principally for the Cincinnati Reds (1956-65) and Baltimore Orioles (1966-71). In 1966 he won the triple crown, leading the league in home runs (49), runs batted in (122), and batting average (.316). He later managed the Cleveland Indians (1975-77), San Francisco Giants (1981-84), Baltimore Orioles (1988-91), and Montreal Expos (since 2002)

Heath Robinson

a Heath Robinson machine, system etc is very complicated in an amusing way but not at all practical (William Heath Robinson (1872-194), English humorous artist who drew pictures of very complicated machines)

Henry Peach Robinson

born July 9, 1830, Ludlow, Shropshire, Eng. died Feb. 21, 1901, Tunbridge Wells British photographer. Tiring of doing portraits, he turned to "high art" photographs, which imitated the anecdotal genre paintings popular at the time, creating them by pasting together parts of several negatives ("combination printing"). His photograph Fading Away (1858), depicting the peaceful death of a young girl surrounded by her grieving family, skillfully combines five different negatives. He used costumed models to shoot bucolic scenes in his studio. His Pictorial Effect in Photography (1869) was for decades the most influential book in English on photographic practice

Henry Robinson Luce

(1898-1967) American journalist and publisher, founder of the magazines "Time" "Life" "Fortune" and "Sports Illustrated

Henry Robinson Luce

born April 3, 1898, Dengzhou, Shandong province, China died Feb. 28, 1967, Phoenix, Ariz., U.S. U.S. magazine publisher. Luce was born to U.S. missionary parents. He graduated from Yale University in 1920. While at Yale he had met Briton Hadden, with whom he launched Time in 1923. He added the business magazine Fortune in 1929 and Life magazine in 1936. Among other Luce magazines were House & Home, established in 1952, and Sports Illustrated, launched in 1954. His publications, founded as means of educating what Luce considered a poorly informed U.S. public, had many imitators, and Luce became one of the most powerful figures in the history of U.S. journalism. Both he and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, had a major influence on the Republican Party and on national affairs

Jack Robinson

before you can say Jack Robinson very quickly or suddenly

Jackie Robinson

a US baseball player who was the first black person to be allowed to play in the Major Leagues (1919-72). in full Jack Roosevelt Robinson born Jan. 31, 1919, Cairo, Ga., U.S. died Oct. 24, 1972, Stamford, Conn. U.S. baseball player, the first black player in the major leagues. Robinson became an outstanding performer in several sports at Pasadena Junior College and UCLA before leaving college to help his mother care for the family. He served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army in World War II. He played baseball with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro leagues before being signed by Branch Rickey to a Brooklyn Dodgers farm team (1945-46). On being advanced to the majors in 1947, he endured with notable dignity the early opposition to his presence, opposition quickly silenced by Robinson's immediate success as he led the league in stolen bases and was chosen Rookie of the Year. In 1949 he won the batting championship with a .342 average and was voted the league's most valuable player. He retired from the Dodgers team in 1956 with a career batting average of .311. In his later years he strongly supported the cause of civil rights for African Americans

James Harvey Robinson

born June 29, 1863, Bloomington, Ill., U.S. died Feb. 16, 1936, New York, N.Y. U.S. historian. Robinson received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg and returned to the U.S. to teach European history, principally at Columbia University (1895-1919). In The New History (1912), he called for the use of the social sciences in historical scholarship and put forth his controversial contention that the study of the past should serve primarily to improve the present. Among his other works are The Mind in the Making (1921) and several influential textbooks, including The Development of Modern Europe (1907-08; with Charles Beard)

Joan Robinson

orig. Joan (Violet) Maurice born Oct. 31, 1903, Camberley, Surrey, Eng. died Aug. 5, 1983, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire British economist. A professor at the University of Cambridge (1931-71), she helped develop Keynesian theory, establishing her reputation in 1933 with The Economics of Imperfect Competition, in which she analyzed distribution and allocation, dealing particularly with the concept of exploitation (see monopolistic competition). In the 1940s she began to incorporate aspects of Marxism into her work. Her unorthodox views and sympathy with noncapitalist systems including China's, on which she wrote three books involved her in controversy throughout her career

Joan Violet Robinson

v. orig. Joan (Violet) Maurice born Oct. 31, 1903, Camberley, Surrey, Eng. died Aug. 5, 1983, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire British economist. A professor at the University of Cambridge (1931-71), she helped develop Keynesian theory, establishing her reputation in 1933 with The Economics of Imperfect Competition, in which she analyzed distribution and allocation, dealing particularly with the concept of exploitation (see monopolistic competition). In the 1940s she began to incorporate aspects of Marxism into her work. Her unorthodox views and sympathy with noncapitalist systems including China's, on which she wrote three books involved her in controversy throughout her career

John Robinson Jeffers

born Jan. 10, 1887, Pittsburgh, Penn., U.S. died Jan. 20, 1962, Carmel, Calif., U.S. U.S. poet. Born to a wealthy family, he was educated in literature, medicine, and forestry. His lyrics express contempt for humanity and love of the harsh, eternal beauties of nature, notably the California coast near Carmel, where he moved in 1916. His third book, Tamar and Other Poems (1924), cemented his reputation and revealed the unique style and eccentric ideas he later developed in Cawdor (1928), Thurso's Landing (1932), and Be Angry at the Sun (1941)

Mary Robinson

orig. Mary Bourke born May 21, 1944, Ballina, County Mayo, Ire. Irish politician, first woman president of Ireland (1990-97). She earned a law degree at the University of Dublin, where she became a professor of law (1969-75). She served in the Irish senate (1969-89) as a Labour Party member. Nominated by the Labour Party and supported by the Green Party and the Workers' Party, she became Ireland's first woman president in 1990 by mobilizing a liberal constituency and merging it with a more conservative constituency opposed to the Fianna Fáil party. In 1997 she left office a few months before her term expired to take up the post of UN high commissioner for human rights

Smokey Robinson

(1940- )a US soul singer and record producer for the record company Motown, of which he later became a director. He started working with his group The Miracles in 1957 and their songs include The Tracks of My Tears, and I Second That Emotion. orig. William Robinson born Feb. 19, 1940, Detroit, Mich., U.S. U.S. singer and songwriter. Robinson formed a group while still in high school. As the Miracles, they released their first single, produced by Berry Gordy, Jr., who shortly thereafter founded the Motown label. Their first Motown hit, "Shop Around" (1961), was followed by "You Really Got a Hold on Me," "I Second That Emotion," and "The Tracks of My Tears"; Robinson also wrote other Motown hits such as the Temptations' "My Girl" and Mary Wells's "My Guy." He became president of Motown in 1972, by which time he was performing as a solo artist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987

Sugar Ray Robinson

His outstanding ability and flamboyant personality made him a hero of boxing fans throughout the world, and he is sometimes considered the best fighter in history

Sugar Ray Robinson

a very successful US boxer who was world champion in the 1940s and 1950s, first as a welterweight (=boxer weighing between 63.5 and 66.5 kilos) , and then as a middleweight (=boxer weighing between 70 and 72.5 kilos) (1921-89). orig. Walker Smith, Jr. born May 3, 1921, Detroit, Mich., U.S. died April 12, 1989, Culver City, Calif. U.S. boxer. Robinson began boxing in high school in New York City and won all of his 89 amateur fights. He was six times a world champion, once (1946-51) as a welterweight (147 lbs) and five times (1951-60) as a middleweight (160 lbs). In 201 professional bouts, he made 109 knockouts. He suffered only 19 defeats, most when he was past

Swiss Family Robinson

a novel for children by the Swiss writer Johann Wyss, about a family who live on a desert island after their ship sinks. It was made into a Walt Disney film in 1960 (1813)

before he could say Jack Robinson

very quickly, before he could react

before one could say Jack Robinson

with great speed

Hyphenation

Rob·in·son

Turkish pronunciation

räbınsın

Pronunciation

/ˈräbənsən/ /ˈrɑːbənsən/

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