willard

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Definition of willard in English English dictionary

A male given name of mostly American usage. Partly transferred back from the surname

The date on the document corresponded to Bill's date of birth, which Scott had seen many times on records and forms, and the name of the child was Willard Skansey Jr. - - - A bank robber's name. Or a tough welterweight of the 1930s with his hair parted in the middle. A bank robber lying low between jobs.

A patronymic surname

{i} family name; male first name; Emma Hart Willard (1787-1870), American educator and poet; Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839-1898), American reformer, advocate of temperance and women's suffrage; Jess Willard (1881-1968), American heavyweight boxer

American reformer. An ardent advocate of temperance and women's suffrage, she was the national president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1879-1898). Allport Gordon Willard Gibbs Josiah Willard Libby Willard Frank Marriott John Willard Quine Willard Van Orman

of mostly American usage

United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870)

United States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898)

United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870) United States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898)

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Willard Frank Libby

born Dec. 17, 1908, Grand Valley, Colo., U.S. died Sept. 8, 1980, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. chemist. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley and later taught there and at the University of Chicago and UCLA. With the Manhattan Project, he helped develop a method for separating uranium isotopes and showed that tritium is a product of cosmic radiation. In 1947 he and his students developed carbon-14 dating, which proved to be an extremely valuable tool for archaeology, anthropology, and earth science and earned him a 1960 Nobel Prize

Willard Libby

born Dec. 17, 1908, Grand Valley, Colo., U.S. died Sept. 8, 1980, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. chemist. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley and later taught there and at the University of Chicago and UCLA. With the Manhattan Project, he helped develop a method for separating uranium isotopes and showed that tritium is a product of cosmic radiation. In 1947 he and his students developed carbon-14 dating, which proved to be an extremely valuable tool for archaeology, anthropology, and earth science and earned him a 1960 Nobel Prize

Willard Van Orman Quine

v. born June 25, 1908, Akron, Ohio, U.S. died Dec. 25, 2000, Boston, Mass. U.S. logician and philosopher. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1932 and joined the faculty there in 1936. From 1942 to 1945 he served as a naval intelligence officer in Washington, D.C. Promoted to full professor at Harvard in 1948, he remained there until 1978, when he retired. He produced highly original and important work in several areas of philosophy, including epistemology, logic, ontology, and the philosophy of language. He was known for rejecting epistemological foundationalism in favour of what he called "naturalized epistemology," whose modest task is merely to give a psychological account of how scientific knowledge is obtained. Though influenced by the logical positivism of Rudolf Carnap and other members of the Vienna Circle, he famously rejected one of their cardinal doctrines, the analytic-synthetic distinction. In ontology he rejected the existence of properties, propositions, and meanings as ill-defined or scientifically useless. He was also known for his behaviourist account of language learning and for his thesis of the "indeterminacy of translation," according to which there can be no "fact of the matter" about which of indefinitely many possible translations of one language into another is correct. His many books include Word and Object (1960), The Roots of Reference (1974), and an autobiography, The Time of My Life (1985)

Emma Hart Willard

{i} (1787-1870) American educator and poet

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard

{i} Frances Willard (1839-1898), American reformer and suffragist, advocate of temperance and women's suffrage

Frances Willard

{i} Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839-1898), American reformer, advocate of temperance and women's suffrage

Gordon Willard Allport

born Nov. 11, 1897, Montezuma, Ind., U.S. died Oct. 9, 1967, Cambridge, Mass. U.S. psychologist. He taught at Harvard University (1930-67), becoming noted for his theory of personality, which focused on the adult self rather than on childhood or infantile emotions and experiences, set forth in books such as Personality (1937). In The Nature of Prejudice (1954) he made important contributions to the analysis of prejudice

J Willard Gibbs

born , Feb. 11, 1839, New Haven, Conn., U.S. died April 28, 1903, New Haven U.S. theoretical physicist and chemist. He became the first person to earn an engineering doctorate from Yale University, where he taught from 1871 until his death. He began his career in engineering but turned to theory, analyzing the equilibrium of James Watt's steam-engine governor. His major works were on fluid thermodynamics and the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances, and he developed statistical mechanics. Gibbs was the first to expound with mathematical rigour the "relation between chemical, electrical, and thermal energy and capacity for work." Though little of his work was appreciated during his lifetime, his application of thermodynamic theory to chemical reactions converted much of physical chemistry from an empirical to a deductive science, and he is regarded as one of the greatest U.S. scientists of the 19th century

J Willard Marriott

born , Sept. 17, 1900, Marriott, Utah, U.S. died Aug. 13, 1985, Wolfeboro, N.H. U.S. businessman who founded one of the largest U.S. hotel and restaurant organizations. The son of a Mormon rancher, he opened a rootbeer and barbecue stand in Washington, D.C., in 1927. By the end of World War II his chain of Hot Shoppe family restaurants extended over the entire East Coast, and in 1957 he opened his first hotel. His son J. Willard Marriott, Jr., succeeded him as president of the Marriott Corp. in 1964. At the time of the elder Marriott's death, the Marriott Corp. had 140,000 employees in 26 countries and total annual sales of $3.5 billion. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988

Jess Willard

{i} (1881-1968) American heavyweight boxer

John Willard Marriott

born , Sept. 17, 1900, Marriott, Utah, U.S. died Aug. 13, 1985, Wolfeboro, N.H. U.S. businessman who founded one of the largest U.S. hotel and restaurant organizations. The son of a Mormon rancher, he opened a rootbeer and barbecue stand in Washington, D.C., in 1927. By the end of World War II his chain of Hot Shoppe family restaurants extended over the entire East Coast, and in 1957 he opened his first hotel. His son J. Willard Marriott, Jr., succeeded him as president of the Marriott Corp. in 1964. At the time of the elder Marriott's death, the Marriott Corp. had 140,000 employees in 26 countries and total annual sales of $3.5 billion. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988

Josiah Willard Gibbs

born , Feb. 11, 1839, New Haven, Conn., U.S. died April 28, 1903, New Haven U.S. theoretical physicist and chemist. He became the first person to earn an engineering doctorate from Yale University, where he taught from 1871 until his death. He began his career in engineering but turned to theory, analyzing the equilibrium of James Watt's steam-engine governor. His major works were on fluid thermodynamics and the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances, and he developed statistical mechanics. Gibbs was the first to expound with mathematical rigour the "relation between chemical, electrical, and thermal energy and capacity for work." Though little of his work was appreciated during his lifetime, his application of thermodynamic theory to chemical reactions converted much of physical chemistry from an empirical to a deductive science, and he is regarded as one of the greatest U.S. scientists of the 19th century

Hyphenation

Wil·lard

Turkish pronunciation

wîlırd

Pronunciation

/ˈwələrd/ /ˈwɪlɜrd/

Etymology

() Old English wil (“will”) + heard (“brave, strong”).