Wolff

[ vawlf; English woolf ]

noun

1. Chris·ti·an von [kris, -tee-ahn f, uh, n], Baron. Also 1679–1754, German philosopher and mathematician.
2. Kas·par Frie·drich [kahs, -pah, r, , free, -d, r, i, kh], 1733–94, German anatomist and physiologist.

Other Words From

• Wolffi·an adjective

Example Sentences

That name, a reference to devices used to develop film, also is the title of the group show with which Wolff bids farewell to Photoworks after 47 years.

From Washington Post

Wolff and his colleagues, meanwhile, found that boredom-prone people ranked social distancing as more difficult than others had.

From Science News For Students

Wolff suggests people take small steps to make it easier to follow such forced changes to their routine.

From Science News For Students

Wolff instead suggests that people reduce the need for self-control by creating backup plans.

From Science News For Students

Training people to have more self-control may be difficult though, Wolff says.

From Science News

Kilmer plays shy Teddy, and Nat Wolff his out-of-control friend, Fred.

From The Daily Beast

And he rejected the notion that Wolff Samson helped to bring the project to completion.

From The Daily Beast

Wolff, added on his Twitter account: "I'm hearing the WHY, the big reveal, the scandal details, could come tomorrow."

From The Daily Beast

The Duke of Deception By Geoffrey Wolff In his portrait of a con-man father, Wolff writes a memoir of perfect integrity.

From The Daily Beast

Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair columnist and founder of Newser, and Jonathan Alter, senior editor of Newsweek, were bickering.

From The Daily Beast

In the old days every great man kept a toad-eater; sometimes his functions were highly paid—Wolff's are, I fancy.

From Project Gutenberg

"The place seems quite dull without them, Wolff," he remarked.

From Project Gutenberg

For several weeks he and Dr. Wolff had pottered about the set of rooms that were to be graced by Georgie's presence.

From Project Gutenberg

Wolff has illustrated this point by a series of experiments on the sunflower, of which we shall quote one.

From Project Gutenberg

The faithful Wolff too, as a graduate of a German university, had been a fighter of duels in his youth.

From Project Gutenberg