Eccles

[ ek-uhlz ]

/ ˈɛk əlz /

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noun

Sir John Ca·rew

[kuh-roo], /kəˈru/, 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.

Mar·ri·ner Stod·dard

[mar-uh-ner stod-erd], /ˈmær ə nər ˈstɒd ərd/, 1890–1977, U.S. economist and banker.

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Other definitions for Eccles (2 of 3)

eccles.

or eccl.

abbreviation

ecclesiastic.

ecclesiastical.

Other definitions for Eccles (3 of 3)

Eccles.

or Eccl.

abbreviation Bible.

Ecclesiastes.

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How to use Eccles in a sentence

Ninety-four years of reasonably deliberative history was thus replicated in three fortnights of panic inside the Eccles Building.
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The protest/counter-protest outside the Eccles Theater being just one piece of his elaborate fabric.
Kevin Smith: Indie God or Disappointment?|Nicole LaPorte|January 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Eccles had reached the same conclusion as Keynes, but from personal observation of the 1929 crash.
Stop Trying to Balance Budgets!|Harold Evans|June 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He ignored, too, his chairman of the Federal Reserve, Marriner Eccles, a small, peppery Mormon banker from Utah.
Stop Trying to Balance Budgets!|Harold Evans|June 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST

Eccles stressed to FDR, “the crucial consideration is not the size of the deficit but the level of national income.”
Stop Trying to Balance Budgets!|Harold Evans|June 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
"Makes one feel jolly rotten," remarked Eccles, the "Royal Oak's" gunnery jack.
The Dreadnought of the Air|Percy F. Westerman
Just then Eccles and Plumbly, the assistant paymaster, entered the cabin and expressed their intention of "standing in."
The Dreadnought of the Air|Percy F. Westerman
Robertson did one great thing: he drew the great and vital tragi-comic figure of Eccles.
The English Stage|Augustin Filon
"Poor Bob Eccles didn't want no stiffening when he come down first," Sedgett interjected.
Rhoda Fleming, Complete|George Meredith
At a safe distance, he called: "Bad news that about Bob Eccles swallowing a blow yesterday!"
Rhoda Fleming, Complete|George Meredith

British Dictionary definitions for Eccles (1 of 3)

Eccles¹

/ (ˈɛkəlz) /

noun

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

British Dictionary definitions for Eccles (2 of 3)

Eccles²

/ (ˈɛkəlz) /

noun

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

British Dictionary definitions for Eccles (3 of 3)

Eccles.

Eccl.

/ Bible /

abbreviation for

Ecclesiastes

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