Julius

[ jool-yuhs ]

/ ˈdʒul yəs /

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noun

a male given name: a Roman family name.

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Words nearby Julius

Julian of Norwich, Julie, julienne, Juliet, Juliet cap, Julius, Julius Caesar, Julius I, Julius II, Julius III, Jullundur

How to use Julius in a sentence

Julius works at the University of California, San Francisco.
A 2021 Nobel goes for discovering how our body reads touch sensations|Freda Kreier|October 5, 2021|Science News For Students
Julius used another natural compound, the winter-fresh menthol, to tease out a cold-sensing receptor.
A 2021 Nobel goes for discovering how our body reads touch sensations|Freda Kreier|October 5, 2021|Science News For Students
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.
Discovering how we sense temperature and touch wins the 2021 medicine Nobel Prize|Freda Kreier|October 4, 2021|Science News
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.
Discovering how we sense temperature and touch wins the 2021 medicine Nobel Prize|Freda Kreier|October 4, 2021|Science News

Julius and Patapoutian discovered receptors that play a key role in identifying these sensations.
Nobel Prize awarded to researchers who parsed how we feel temperature and touch|Claire Maldarelli|October 4, 2021|Popular-Science
We do have the writings of Sextus Julius Frontinus—but what he wrote was a treatise on aqueducts.
So-Called ‘Biblical Scholar’ Says Jesus A Made-Up Myth|Candida Moss, Joel Baden|October 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Inside was Mandelbaum, her twenty-four-year-old son Julius, and her most trusted confidant, Herman Stoude.
Meet 'The Queen of Thieves' Marm Mandelbaum, New York City's First Mob Boss|J. North Conway|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One of the few Americans to respond was Charlton Heston, with whom she had starred in Julius Caesar in 1970.
Diana Rigg: GOT's Queen of Thorns Speaks|Nico Hines|August 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The second is the first generation born in America: people like Julius Shulman, Paul Rand, Alex Steinweiss, and Alvin Lustig.
How Jews Created American Modernism|Andrew Romano|August 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When Julius reports that the day after the Mahler benefited from “some new intensity,” we identify.
Teju Cole’s Keen Eye Spares No One—Himself Included|Benjamin Lytal|July 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He passed his life in severe study, and wrote an ecclesiastical history from Julius Csar to his own age.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
From the time of Julius Caesar they were allowed to build synagogues and granted many other privileges.
Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward
Could all the wise men of Rome have explained to Julius Caesar the following dispatch, if given in prophetic vision?
Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward
What sincerity was there in Julius Caesar when he discharged the duties of high-priest of the Republic?
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
His chief guide is Julius Cæsar, whom he frequently quotes verbatim.
The Geography of Strabo, Volume III (of 3)|Strabo