Eccles

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[ ek-uhlz ]

noun

1. Sir John Ca·rew [k, uh, -, roo], 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
2. Mar·ri·ner Stod·dard [mar, -, uh, -ner , stod, -erd], 1890–1977, U.S. economist and banker.

eccles.

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or eccl.

abbreviation for

1. ecclesiastic.
2. ecclesiastical.

Eccles.

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or Eccl.

abbreviation for

, Bible.

1. Ecclesiastes.

Eccles.

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abbreviation for

1. Ecclesiastes

Eccles

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/ ˈɛkəlz /

noun

1. a town in NW England, in Salford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 36 610 (2001)

Eccles

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/ ˈɛkəlz /

noun

1. EcclesSir John Carew19031997MAustralianSCIENCE: physiologist Sir John Carew. 1903–97, Australian physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology (1963) with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley for their work on conduction of nervous impulses

Example Sentences

Ninety-four years of reasonably deliberative history was thus replicated in three fortnights of panic inside the Eccles Building.

From The Daily Beast

The protest/counter-protest outside the Eccles Theater being just one piece of his elaborate fabric.

From The Daily Beast

Eccles had reached the same conclusion as Keynes, but from personal observation of the 1929 crash.

From The Daily Beast

He ignored, too, his chairman of the Federal Reserve, Marriner Eccles, a small, peppery Mormon banker from Utah.

From The Daily Beast

Eccles stressed to FDR, “the crucial consideration is not the size of the deficit but the level of national income.”

From The Daily Beast

"Makes one feel jolly rotten," remarked Eccles, the "Royal Oak's" gunnery jack.

From Project Gutenberg

Just then Eccles and Plumbly, the assistant paymaster, entered the cabin and expressed their intention of "standing in."

From Project Gutenberg

Robertson did one great thing: he drew the great and vital tragi-comic figure of Eccles.

From Project Gutenberg

"Poor Bob Eccles didn't want no stiffening when he come down first," Sedgett interjected.

From Project Gutenberg

At a safe distance, he called: "Bad news that about Bob Eccles swallowing a blow yesterday!"

From Project Gutenberg