(n.) One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.
(n.) One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
(2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(3) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(4) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
(5) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
(6) Harvey Whiteford, Kratzmann professor of psychiatry and population health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said depression was very common and was the second leading cause of health-related disability.
(7) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(8) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
(9) Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the numbers inevitably underrepresented the demand.
(10) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
(11) In the 17 student groups (nine in the morning shift, eight on the evening schedule), significant differences were found in the biochemical subjects under study (p = 0), among the nine individual professors (p = 0), between the morning vs. evening shift students (p = 0.014) and between the 17 student groups (p = 0.04).
(12) Professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School.
(13) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(14) The scale of fees that potentially are there in the Italian banking market – from restructurings and consolidation – are substantial,” said Peter Hahn, professor of banking at the London Institute of Banking & Finance.
(15) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
(16) "The more I've worked on data protection over the past 20 years, the more I've realised that at the heart of this, what matters as much as the privacy aspect is the issue of human decision-making," said Mayer-Schönberger, professor of internet governance at the Oxford Internet Institute.
(17) Professor Joseph Pearlman City University, London • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
(18) He was supported by Professor John Appleby, chief economist at the King's Fund, who calculated that the NHS would have £910m less to spend over that period.
(19) This paper argues that although this is true of some types of obligation, including the ones discussed by Professor Kluge, it is by no means true of all.
(20) This judgement is particularly significant for the UK as it was the testimony of two leading experts, Professor Nicholas J. Wald and Sir Richard Doll, whose evidence helped convince the Judge about the harmful health effects of passive smoke.
Professorship
Definition:
(n.) The office or position of a professor, or public teacher.
Example Sentences:
(1) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(2) Gillard revealed she would be taking up a role as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, working on global education issues as well as her professorship at the University of Adelaide.
(3) Thirty-six surgical repairs done during visiting professorships by American gynecologists between the years 1978-1987 are documented.
(4) There is also a Betamax videotape recording of him receiving an honorary professorship at the Modern Academy of the Humanities, an obscure Moscow university that offers distance learning.
(5) On Monday, former NSA officer and conservative pundit John Schindler was reportedly placed on leave from his professorship at the Naval War College when a text message exchange that included a picture of his penis was posted to Twitter and re-published on Gawker (that link is rather obviously NSFW).
(6) Funds should also be allocated for professorships in this field.
(7) "And then three days ago we received a written confirmation that he would accept the professorship, not from him directly but from an intermediary."
(8) It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema and the day I die is the day I graduate.
(9) After Bouchard attained professorship, his relationship with Charcot gradually deteriorated.
(10) So it is perhaps little surprise that Burns, 63, will retire as Scotland's chief medical officer next month to take up a senior professorship in global public health at Strathclyde University.
(11) Besides her Harley Street practice and her senior appointment at Moorfields (The Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital), she prevented its closure to ophthalmic patients and chaired the Hospital Management Committee; she investigated the pathology of mustard gas keratitis and formed a Chemical Defence Research Team to study ocular effects of warfare chemicals; she was appointed Margaret Ogilvie Reader in Ophthalmology and senior surgeon to the Oxford Eye Hospital; she established the Nuffield Research Laboratory and was awarded a personal professorship, the first in ophthalmology in Britain, the first professorship given to a woman and the only one in ophthalmology by the University of Oxford.
(12) Ai, who has endured what he described as "extreme conditions" and an 81-day detention in his home country, said on Thursday he was happy to take the offer of a professorship in Germany and that he would continue to focus on freedom of expression in his art.
(13) Orac points out that, just because the senior author of the Nature paper, Stephen Scherer, has a professorship that is endowed by the drug company GlaxoSmithKline, it does not automatically imply a conflict of interest or bias in his research.
(14) Then, in 1988, he was appointed to a professorship at New York University, which was his home for the rest of his life.
(15) The Ministery of Cult and Education in Vienna, and especially Karl Rokitansky, who was the adviser for medical education, in 1867 created a new professorship and Institute for Physiology, beside Purkinje and his Institute.
(16) Professorships in Lusaka, Zambia, and Wyoming in the US followed, as well as a spell at Warsaw University.
(17) In 1989, Hull became professor of religious education at Birmingham, the first full professorship in the subject at a UK university, and also served as dean of the faculty of education and continuing studies.
(18) The granting of faculty status to Nigerian unviersity librarians should go the whole way and let the principle of multiple professorships be applied to the staff structure of unviersity libraries.
(19) It is necessary to take the whole education system into consideration: college up to professorship, as they are linked together.
(20) If we observe how the specialty is distributed, we can see that there are many paediatric services and professorships which do not send their patients to a P.S.