Used in a Sentence

crosby

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for crosby.

Editorial note

From his Wikipedia page: Crosby exerted an important influence on the development of the postwar recording industry.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3198).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of crosby gathered in one view.

noun

A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3198).

noun

A northern English and Scottish habitational surname from Old Norse.

noun

A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa; named for mine operator J. H. Crosby.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crosby.

noun

A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3198).

noun

A northern English and Scottish habitational surname from Old Norse.

noun

A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa; named for mine operator J. H. Crosby.

noun

A locale in England:

Example sentences

1

From his Wikipedia page: Crosby exerted an important influence on the development of the postwar recording industry.

2

Had a Canadian team won the lottery the year Crosby was drafted, maybe that changes things.

3

Zombie Bing Crosby crawls out of his grave and eats the brains of Google engineers.

4

MHD made their name playing a residency at the The Crosby in Santa Ana, which was co-owned by Chris Alfaro a.k.a.

5

But hey, there's always Bing Crosby this time of year to evoke an America that was more than a place to make money.

6

In his study of meaninglessness, Donald Crosby writes that the source of modern nihilism paradoxically stems from a commitment to honest intellectual openness.

7

When sincere inquiry is extended to moral convictions and social consensus, it can prove deadly, Crosby continues, promoting forces that ultimately destroy civilizations.

8

And even better, the Crosby article on optimizing timing attacks.

9

I just wonder what the family of Bing Crosby thinks about all this.

10

Again, you should read the Crosby et al.

11

Through the aegis of recording, Crosby developed the techniques of constructing his broadcast radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) that occurred in a theatrical motion picture production.

12

In 1947, he invested $50,000 in the Ampex company, which developed North America's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder, and Crosby became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings on magnetic tape.

Quote examples

1

Didn't Crosby, Stills and Nash get it with, "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"?

2

Read Crosby and Wallach's "Opportunities and Limits" paper; the shorthand result of the paper is that across Ethernet you have a window of 100ns, and across an IP network something closer to 30us.

3

That's below the noise floor even on a LAN.† Even for signals above the noise floor, ie, higher than the "WAN" threshold Crosby and Wallach worked out, actually performing these attacks is very difficult.

4

In a blogpost freelance technology journalist Hanno Boeck explained: "A quick analysis shows that it doesn't have the same flaw as Superfish, but it has another one which arguably is even bigger." "PrivDog is in every sense as malicious as Superfish," added Simon Crosby, co-founder of security firm Bromium.

Proper noun examples

1

The article isn't really about Bing Crosby, but the guy is on the short list of history's most important technology VCs.

2

Graham Nash was the lead singer of the Hollies and a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

3

Quoth Phil Crosby, quality is free, it's the screw-ups that are expensive.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use crosby in a sentence?

From his Wikipedia page: Crosby exerted an important influence on the development of the postwar recording industry.

What does crosby mean?

A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3198).

What part of speech is crosby?

crosby is commonly used as noun.