Fuchs

[ fyooks ]

noun

1. Daniel, 1909–1993, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
2. Klaus Emil Julius [klous], 1911–88, British physicist and atom spy for the Soviet Union, born in Germany.
3. Sir Vivian (Ernest), 1908–1999, British geologist and Antarctic explorer.

Fuchs

/ fʊks; fuːks /

noun

1. FuchsKlaus Emil19111988MBritishGermanSCIENCE: physicist Klaus Emil . (klaus ˈeːmiːl). 1911–88, East German physicist. He was born in Germany, became a British citizen (1942), and was imprisoned (1950–59) for giving secret atomic research information to the Soviet Union
2. FuchsSir Vivian Ernest19081999MEnglishTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorerSCIENCE: geologist Sir Vivian Ernest . 1908–99, English explorer and geologist: led the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–58)

Example Sentences

Fuchs assigned Roullier presnap calls even though he played left guard, not center.

From Washington Post

Fuchs distilled blocking to five components — stance, hand placement, wide base, butt down, head placement — and saw Roullier’s advanced mental acuity, how he could see the edge or spot defenders betraying the scheme.

From Washington Post

Fuchs’s transfer of scientific secrets to the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1943 was one of the most concentrated spy hauls in history, a step-by-step guide to the fast-moving development of the atomic weapon.

From Freakonomics

So Fuchs and colleagues created computer simulations of the experiment.

From Science News

“You have a handful of candidates who are saying you can’t trust it,” Fuchs said, “so you’re seeing a response from those who intended to vote absentee and are now going to vote in person.”

From Washington Post

The next and last speaker was the class valedictorian, Officer James Fuchs.

From The Daily Beast

Take Randi Fuchs, a 22-year-old English major who was accepted to her first-choice college and enrolled there in 2006.

From The Daily Beast

The fuchsia took its name from Leonard Fuchs, a sixteenth-century botanist, the first German who really studied botany.

From Project Gutenberg

He talked of Kaulbach, whom he has known very intimately, being the publisher of the "Reineke Fuchs."

From Project Gutenberg

Kaulbach's great compositions are huge charades; and I have seen nothing of his equal to his own "Reineke Fuchs."

From Project Gutenberg

Fuchs; the ultimate origin is unknown, but a connexion has been suggested with Sanskrit puccha, tail.

From Project Gutenberg

Bald trifft er denn auch seinen Compadre, der soeben ein Tatu ausgegraben und mit seinem Fuchs erschlagen hat.

From Project Gutenberg