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gilbert

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1. gilbert - Noun

2. Gilbert - Proper noun

Meaning

United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)

a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns

English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)

English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)

a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. Jack Adams

No money, no grovel! (Actually an ad-lib introduced by Rutland Barrington when playing the rôle of Pooh-Bah, to the annoyance of Gilbert.) W. S. Gilbert

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. Christopher Morley

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray. James Meade

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890? Stephen Sondheim

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. Jack Adams

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