Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person having expert knowledge of one or more sciences, especially a natural or physical science.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person versed in or devoted to science; a man of science; a savant.
Wiktionary
- n. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Recent One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
Etymologies
- Latin stem scientia with suffix -ist. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Less weight, in fact, because our scientist is an "expert" and therefore, an "elitist.”
“I'm a little surprised that people react so badly to your job because I think being a scientist is the coolest job in the world!”
“When you think of the word scientist, like most, you might immediately conjure up images of a guy in a laboratory and a white lab coat doing experiments, and it usually has a clinical depiction.”
“The measure of credibility of a scientist is asking questions that are advance their field, no matter what the answer is.”
“Part of being a scientist is about using the scientific method to investigate things and attain new information while correcting the old.”
“Mark Lynas writes on the Guardian blog about how not being a scientist is a help, not a hindrance, in enabling him to communicate science effectively.”
“I know you think your claimed standing as a scientist is a universal trump card around here, but you seriously should consider the possibility that other people around here sometimes have relevant expertise.”
Matthew Yglesias » The Bitter Fruits of a Finance-Oriented Economy
“Being a scientist is a good career for mothers, because you can work at midnight while feeding babies," she said.”
“WASHINGTON (AP) - Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist is theorizing.”
“The life of a scientist is about understanding nature and communicating findings, which should naturally lend itself to engaging the public as well.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scientist’.
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PHIL - vocabulary of thinking
philosophy, Socratic, dialogue, philosopher, Athenian, philosophical, politic, Greek, method, death, ancient, believe and 243 more...
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people (good)
nouns for good people / words that describe good people.
go to the bad people list
( people, character, descriptor, noun )philanthropist, angel, environmentalist, activist, advocate, volunteer, hero, parent, friend, virtuoso, gentleman, helper and 62 more...
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POL - partisan
fraction, internal grumbling, Laborites, party bigwig, party boss, party chief, party line, placeman, rank and file, step out of line, the rank and file..., transnational party and 79 more...
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Open List - Partisan Political Pejora...
A list of pejorative names for "the other" political group(s), from decepticrat to neotard.
neotard, eco-socialist, Red Green, watermelon, libidiot, sheeple, libertard, decepticrat, dummycrat, democrook, republicon, reich wing and 57 more...
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words in quotes
single words to be used in quotations more frequently than not.
( randomness )reality, sleep, science, scientist, art, laws, failure, god, man, mankind, artist
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Whooping Crane
Words for the Whooping Crane Alphabet book
ultralight, patuxent, maryland, wisconsin, florida, people, chick, juvenile, adult, swamp monster, teach, learn and 48 more...
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SCI -words
scintilla is the most favoured one
with 95 listings
ironically more than a scintilla of recognitionsciaenid, sciaenoid, sciamachy, sciarid, sciatic, sciatica, sciatical, science, scienced, scient, scienter, sciental and 70 more...
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identifiers
species, sex, age bracket, occupation, hobby .. etc.
man, woman, human being, student, zombie, artist, octopus, race driver, scientist, algorithmist, mathematician, child and 59 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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boychoir's Words
tantamount, nom de guerre, absurd, dolt, transmute, dichotomy, dandy, schadenfreude, ennui, binary, analog, obfuscate and 93 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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Ideologic
zionist, naxalite, communist, maoist, jihadi, islamist, marxist, tsarist, fascist, capitalist, leftist, nihilist and 34 more...
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Bands that are words...
Those I like and those that are NOT phrases e.g. Air would count but Arcade Fire would not, even if I like both. Also specific groups of words are included such as Iron Maiden (a specific thing) vs...
air, iron maiden, kraftwerk, stereolab, pelican, isis, emperor, enslaved, beefcake, squarepusher, clutch, carcass and 34 more...
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Words that describe Emily Therese
Words that describe me
botanist, policy wonk, summer camp, sunflower, naturalist, copper, ecologist, conservationist, environmentalist, reader, feminist, wolverine and 15 more...
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and you and I
Character sketches: people in words.
bitter, dignity, seventeen, mouth, eccentric, maiden, scientist, daughter, cynic, traveller, rogue, bones and 8 more...
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what should i be when i grow up
janitor, salesperson, advertiser, journalist, seamstress, maid, clerk, author, librarian, scientist, astronaut, politician and 7 more...
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