joseph : Idioms & Phrases

• noun English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980)
  Hitchcock; Alfred Hitchcock; Sir Alfred Hitchcock.
  

WordNet

• noun English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)
  Arnold Toynbee; Toynbee.
  

WordNet

• noun French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830)
  Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier; Fourier.
  

WordNet

• noun French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970)
  Charles de Gaulle; de Gaulle; General de Gaulle; General Charles de Gaulle.
  

WordNet

• noun Canadian politician who served as prime minister (1939-)
  Joe Clark; Clark.
  

WordNet

• noun leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops (1840-1904)
  Joseph.
  

WordNet

• noun United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941)
  Morton; Jelly Roll Morton.
  

WordNet

• noun emperor of Austria and king of Hungary; was defeated by Napoleon III at the battle of Magenta (1830-1916)
  Francis Joseph; Franz Josef I; Francis Joseph I.
  

WordNet

• noun emperor of Austria and king of Hungary; was defeated by Napoleon III at the battle of Magenta (1830-1916)
  Francis Joseph; Franz Josef I; Francis Joseph I.
  

WordNet

• noun emperor of Austria and king of Hungary; was defeated by Napoleon III at the battle of Magenta (1830-1916)
  Francis Joseph; Franz Josef I; Francis Joseph I.
  

WordNet

• noun prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809)
  Franz Joseph Haydn; Haydn.
  

WordNet

• noun United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962)
  Franz Kline; Kline.
  

WordNet

• noun French writer (born in Belgium) best known for his detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret (1903-1989)
  Georges Simenon; Simenon.
  

WordNet

• noun United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
  Muller.
  

WordNet

• noun United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978)
  Tunney; Gene Tunney.
  

WordNet

• noun French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830)
  Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier; Fourier.
  

WordNet

• noun United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934)
  McGraw; John McGraw.
  

WordNet

• noun United States general who commanded the American forces in Europe during World War I (1860-1948)
  Pershing; Black Jack Pershing.
  

WordNet

• noun United States economist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1883-1950)
  Joseph Alois Schumpeter; Schumpeter.
  

WordNet

• noun United States parapsychologist (1895-1980)
  J. B. Rhine; Rhine.
  

WordNet

• noun Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)
  Flavius Josephus; Josephus.
  

WordNet

• noun British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
  Black.
  

WordNet

• noun United States mythologist (1904-1987)
  Campbell.
  

WordNet

• noun English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924)
  Conrad; Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski.
  

WordNet

• noun United States composer and music critic (1885-1966)
  Deems Taylor; Taylor.
  

WordNet

• noun Confederate general in the American Civil War; led the Confederate troops in the West (1807-1891)
  Johnston; J. E. Johnston.
  

WordNet

• noun United States lexicographer who was accused of plagiarism by Noah Webster (1784-1865)
  Worcester.
  

WordNet

• noun United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966)
  Keaton; Buster Keaton.
  

WordNet

• noun German propaganda minister in Nazi Germany who persecuted the Jews (1897-1945)
  Goebbels; Joseph Goebbels.
  

WordNet

• noun United States linguist who studied the historical relations among 5,000 languages (1916-2001)
  Greenberg.
  

WordNet

• noun prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809)
  Franz Joseph Haydn; Haydn.
  

WordNet

• noun United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999)
  Heller.
  

WordNet

• noun United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)
  Henry.
  

WordNet

• noun English author (born in France) remembered especially for his verse for children (1870-1953)
  Hilaire Belloc; Belloc.
  

WordNet

• noun United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)
  Hooker; Fighting Joe Hooker.
  

WordNet

• noun French field marshal who commanded the Allied armies in France during World War II (1852-1931)
  Joffre.
  

WordNet

• noun Hungarian violinist and composer (1831-1907)
  Joachim.
  

WordNet

• noun English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)
  Joseph John Thomson; Thomson.
  

WordNet

• noun United States journalist whose exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936)
  Steffens; Lincoln Steffens.
  

WordNet

• noun English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912)
  Baron Lister; Lister.
  

WordNet

• noun United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981)
  Louis; Joe Louis.
  

WordNet

• noun French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850)
  Gay-Lussac.
  

WordNet

• noun French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
  Jacquard; Joseph M. Jacquard.
  

WordNet

• noun English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)
  Turner.
  

WordNet

• noun French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
  Jacquard; Joseph M. Jacquard.
  

WordNet

• noun United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)
  Joseph McCarthy; McCarthy.
  

WordNet

• noun United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
  Oliver; King Oliver.
  

WordNet

• noun United States professional baseball player noted for his batting ability (1914-1999)
  Joe DiMaggio; DiMaggio.
  

WordNet

• noun English architect (1801-1865)
  Paxton; Joseph Paxton.
  

WordNet

• noun English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804)
  Priestley.
  

WordNet

• noun United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911)
  Pulitzer.
  

WordNet

• noun United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)
  Joseph McCarthy; McCarthy.
  

WordNet

• noun English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)
  Kipling; Rudyard Kipling.
  

WordNet

• noun United States economist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1883-1950)
  Joseph Alois Schumpeter; Schumpeter.
  

WordNet

• noun religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844)
  Smith.
  

WordNet

• noun Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
  Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; Stalin.
  

WordNet

• noun United States general who commanded the Allied forces in China and Burma and India during World War II (1883-1946)
  Stilwell; Uncle Joe; Vinegar Joe Stilwell.
  

WordNet

• noun perennial aromatic herb of southeastern Asia having large usually bright-colored or blotched leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Solenostemon
  Solenostemon blumei; Coleus blumei; painted nettle; Solenostemon scutellarioides.
  

WordNet

Jo"seph's flow"er

Definitions

1. (Bot.) A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify.

Webster 1913

• noun French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)
  La Fayette; Marquis de Lafayette; Lafayette.
  

WordNet

• noun German propaganda minister in Nazi Germany who persecuted the Jews (1897-1945)
  Goebbels; Joseph Goebbels.
  

WordNet

• noun French socialist who argued that property is theft (1809-1865)
  Proudhon.
  

WordNet

• noun English aeronautical engineer (1895-1937)
  R. J. Mitchell; Mitchell.
  

WordNet

• noun a Christian holy day
  Saint Joseph; March 19.
  
• noun a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express
  Saint Joseph.
  

WordNet

• noun English conductor (1869-1944)
  Sir Henry Wood; Wood.
  

WordNet

• noun English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
  Banks.
  

WordNet

• noun English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)
  Joseph John Thomson; Thomson.
  

WordNet

• noun English architect (1801-1865)
  Paxton; Joseph Paxton.
  

WordNet

• noun English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
  Lodge; Sir Oliver Lodge.
  

WordNet

• noun a Christian holy day
  Saint Joseph; March 19.
  

WordNet

• noun a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express
  Saint Joseph.
  
• noun the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets
  acetylsalicylic acid; Empirin; Bayer; aspirin.
  

WordNet