Baltimore

¹ American

[bawl-tuh-mawr, -mohr] / ˈbɔl təˌmɔr, -ˌmoʊr /

noun

a black nymphalid butterfly, Melitaea phaeton, characterized by orange-red, yellow, and white markings, common in those areas of the northeastern U.S. where turtlehead, the food plant of its larvae, is found.

Baltimore ² American

[bawl-tuh-mawr, -mohr] / ˈbɔl təˌmɔr, -ˌmoʊr /

noun

David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
Lord. Sir George Calvert.
a seaport in N Maryland, on an estuary near the Chesapeake Bay.

Baltimore ¹ British

/ ˈbɔːltɪˌmɔː /

noun

a port in N Maryland, on Chesapeake Bay. Pop: Pop: 628 670 (2003 est)

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Baltimore ² British

/ ˈbɔːltɪˌmɔː /

noun

David . born 1938, US molecular biologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1975) for his discovery of reverse transcriptase
Lord . See Calvert

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Baltimore Scientific

/ bôl′tə-môr′ /

American microbiologist who discovered the enzyme reverse transcriptase, which is capable of passing information from RNA to DNA. Prior to this discovery, it was assumed that information could flow only from DNA to RNA. He won a 1975 Nobel Prize for his research into the connection between viruses and cancer.

Baltimore Cultural

Largest city in Maryland.

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Named after Lord Baltimore, founder of the colony of Maryland. The city is a major industrial center and port.

Etymology

Origin of Baltimore

Baltimore oriole

Example Sentences

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Numerous testimonies, as well as reporting by the Baltimore newspaper the Afro-American, detail the terrible conditions in which these children were incarcerated and made to work in fields.

From Barron's

Samuel Morse changed the news business forever when he electronically transmitted the results of a congressional vote in Washington, DC, to a newspaper in Baltimore across a copper wire back in 1844.

From Literature

In 1975 he bounced the Baltimore Orioles manager from both games of a doubleheader, the second time coming before the game started.

From The Wall Street Journal

Plans had been made to transfer him to the United States for further treatment at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital.

From BBC

The I-95 corridor from north of Baltimore to Boston is expected to see “impossible travel” conditions, the weather service warned.

From The Wall Street Journal

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