Otis

[ oh-tis ]

noun

1. Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
2. Harrison Gray, 1837–1917, U.S. army officer and newspaper publisher.
3. James, 1725–83, American lawyer and public official who is supposed to have first used the phrase “Taxation without representation” (brother of Mercy Otis Warren).
4. a male given name.

Example Sentences

Plus, they’re inefficient and not designed to heat a room, Otis says.

From Popular-Science

In recent weeks, in a move that caught many by surprise, the CPSC began to negotiate with Otis on the terms of a voluntary safety recall of its home elevators.

From Washington Post

Attempt to warn public about home elevator dangers sparks CPSC riftFor years, Otis had distinguished itself among elevator companies by issuing warnings about the danger and fixing many of its products.

From Washington Post

Otis is offering to repair for free its Otis or CemcoLift brand elevators from certain years that contain the hazard.

From Washington Post

The Facebook page affiliated with the Wolverines group had around 3,000 likes and was active until at least the end of August, according to the Alethea Group’s Otis.

From Washington Post

Otis, who tells me he was called “Saladin” on the inside, has taken an almost tragically circuitous route in getting here.

From The Daily Beast

Identity issues seem to have dogged Otis since his troubles began.

From The Daily Beast

I meet Otis J. the night he arrives at “The Castle,” a West Harlem halfway house for newly-released convicts.

From The Daily Beast

Otis says he was wearing a tan jacket similar to one described by witnesses.

From The Daily Beast

Otis Moss, Jr., the noted African-American civil rights leader and confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., concurred.

From The Daily Beast

"I wish the old homes of England had electric lights," thought Miss Otis, with a sigh.

From Project Gutenberg

For Isabel Otis the genius loci had a more powerful and enduring magnetism than any man or woman she had ever known.

From Project Gutenberg

Two years before her death Mrs. Otis was glad to bury her mortification and misery in Rosewater.

From Project Gutenberg

James Otis recovered from a temporary fit of insanity only to grow strangely suspicious of Samuel Adams.

From Project Gutenberg

General Otis sent frequent cablegrams to Washington expressing his belief that the war would soon come to an end.

From Project Gutenberg