Julius

[ jool-yuhs ]

noun

1. a male given name: a Roman family name.

Example Sentences

Julius used another natural compound, the winter-fresh menthol, to tease out a cold-sensing receptor.

From Science News For Students

Julius works at the University of California, San Francisco.

From Science News For Students

Julius, a biochemist and molecular physiologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute trustee, used capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their heat, to discover receptor proteins that allow people to feel chili’s burn.

From Science News

Exactly how small changes in the protein’s shape allow it to communicate to the brain small differences in temperature, such as sensing when a room gets a few degrees warmer than usual, is still a mystery that Julius hopes to solve, he said.

From Science News

Julius and Patapoutian discovered receptors that play a key role in identifying these sensations.

From Popular-Science

We do have the writings of Sextus Julius Frontinus—but what he wrote was a treatise on aqueducts.

From The Daily Beast

Inside was Mandelbaum, her twenty-four-year-old son Julius, and her most trusted confidant, Herman Stoude.

From The Daily Beast

One of the few Americans to respond was Charlton Heston, with whom she had starred in Julius Caesar in 1970.

From The Daily Beast

The second is the first generation born in America: people like Julius Shulman, Paul Rand, Alex Steinweiss, and Alvin Lustig.

From The Daily Beast

When Julius reports that the day after the Mahler benefited from “some new intensity,” we identify.

From The Daily Beast

He passed his life in severe study, and wrote an ecclesiastical history from Julius Csar to his own age.

From Project Gutenberg

From the time of Julius Caesar they were allowed to build synagogues and granted many other privileges.

From Project Gutenberg

Could all the wise men of Rome have explained to Julius Caesar the following dispatch, if given in prophetic vision?

From Project Gutenberg

What sincerity was there in Julius Caesar when he discharged the duties of high-priest of the Republic?

From Project Gutenberg

His chief guide is Julius Cæsar, whom he frequently quotes verbatim.

From Project Gutenberg