Mitchell

[ mich-uhl ]

noun

Arthur, 1934–2018, U.S. ballet dancer, choreographer, and ballet company director.
John, 1870–1919, U.S. labor leader.

Margaret, 1900–49, U.S. novelist.
Maria, 1818–89, U.S. astronomer.
Peter, 1920–92, British biochemist: Nobel Prize 1978.
Silas Weir [weer], /wɪər/, 1829–1914, U.S. physician and novelist.
William, 1879–1936, U.S. general: pioneer in the field of aviation.
Mount, a mountain in western North Carolina: highest peak in the eastern United States, 6,684 feet (2,037 meters).
a city in southeastern South Dakota.
a male given name, form of Michael.

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How to use Mitchell in a sentence

Out-of-state plumbers such as Mitchell and Pinnock are more than welcome to travel to Texas to assist, said Frank Denton, chairman of the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners.
Texas is in desperate need of plumbers. Two brothers-in-law drove more than 20 hours straight to help. | Lateshia Beachum | February 26, 2021 | Washington Post
Mitchell is just entering his prime and building on his explosive performance in last year’s playoffs.
The Utah Jazz Ran It Back — And Got Way Better | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | February 24, 2021 | FiveThirtyEight
Mitchell then returns to play a few minutes without his point guard and center, who rejoin him on the floor to end the half.
How The Best NBA Teams Juggle Their Lineups | Jared Dubin | February 23, 2021 | FiveThirtyEight
Mitchell, the former ambassador, said it was hard to gauge how much support the United States would get from its allies on sanctions.
In Myanmar coup, Suu Kyi’s ouster heralds return to military rule | Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin | February 1, 2021 | Washington Post
Police said Mitchell fatally shot the driver before fleeing.
Shootings leave 3 dead in Prince William, Fauquier counties | Dana Hedgpeth | January 7, 2021 | Washington Post

Mitchell has been reported saying that he grew up poor in Florida.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
“We are proud of the work we have done for our country,” Mitchell and Jessen have said in a joint statement.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Then, not a month after Mitchell left the Air Force, came the 9/11 attacks.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The psychologists who served there included two officers, James Elmer Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
David Mitchell, a major-general in the war of the American revolution, died, aged 77.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel Munsell
Mitchell, a North Carolina geologist, was killed by a fall into the Caney river, while engaged alone in scientific explorations.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel Munsell
John Mitchell was another remarkable member of this fraternity.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
Mr. Mitchell was nominally a Unitarian in his religious creed, but he held very lax notions of this theology, and verged to Deism.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
The church was a plain wooden building, erected by order of General Mitchell for an African church.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.

British Dictionary definitions for Mitchell

Mitchell

/ (ˈmɪtʃəl) /

noun

Joni, original name Roberta Joan Anderson. born 1943, Canadian folk-rock singer and songwriter. Her albums include Blue (1971), Court and Spark (1974), Mingus (1979), Turbulent Indigo (1994), and Shine (2007)
Margaret. 1900–49, US novelist; author of Gone with the Wind (1936)

Reginald Joseph. 1895–1937, British aeronautical engineer; designer of the Spitfire fighter
Sir Thomas Livingstone, known as Major Mitchell. 1792–1855, Australian explorer born in Scotland

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Scientific definitions for Mitchell

Mitchell

[ mĭch′əl ]

American astronomer and educator noted for her study of sunspots and nebulae and for her 1847 discovery of a comet.

biography For Mitchell

Maria Mitchell, the first acknowledged woman astronomer in the United States, was born in 1818, in an era when women were discouraged from pursuing scientific careers. It was her good fortune to have a father who himself was an astronomer and who delighted in fostering his daughter's abilities in mathematics and astronomy. Already assisting her father's research by age twelve and becoming an apprentice schoolteacher at sixteen, Mitchell went on to gain immediate worldwide fame in 1847 when she became the first person to discover a comet using a telescope and established its orbit. For this she was awarded a medal by the King of Denmark, and in 1848 she became the first woman admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the ensuing decades, she made many discoveries about nebulae, double stars, the paths taken by meteors, the surface features of the bodies of the solar system, and many other celestial phenomena. She was a pathbreaker in telescope photography, and made pioneering daily photographs of sunspots, which she demonstrated were cavities in the sun's surface rather than clouds as had previously been thought. In 1865 she became a professor of astronomy at Vassar College, director of its observatory, and its most distinguished faculty member. Her accomplishments and brilliance as a teacher were inspirational to many other women. An outspoken supporter of women's education, Mitchell was able to break numerous barriers to women in the sciences, cofounding the Association for the Advancement of Women in 1873.

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