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elgin

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

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Just happened to be waiting for a Elgin 883 movement to finish drying from a clean/rinse cycle.

Examples19
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A surname.

noun

A placename

noun

A town in Moray council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, the original place from which the others were named.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for elgin.

noun

A surname.

noun

A placename

noun

A town in Moray council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, the original place from which the others were named.

noun

A large valley southeast of Cape Town, South Africa.

Example sentences

1

Just happened to be waiting for a Elgin 883 movement to finish drying from a clean/rinse cycle.

2

The counter-response is the Elgin Marbles issue.

3

The Elgin marbles were just flopped around a field and no locals seemed to care at all.

4

Whether Elgin did or did not have permission from the occupying Ottoman forces is of secondary importance.

5

But you can still run your busses out to Plainfield and Elgin (the approximately equivalent commute from SF to MTV).

6

Two brothers, John Francis Dodge and Horace Elgin Dodge, owned 10% of the company, among the largest shareholders next to Ford.

7

A lot of the heat would leave the debate if the blindingly obvious examples looting were resolved - The Elgin Marbles.

8

I have no strong opinions on Elgin Marbles, and I haven't been following any debate around that one.

9

Linguistics professor and writer Suzette Haden Elgin has a few theories about this.

10

Even a couple of centuries after Elgin did his deed, it matters.

11

My classes were at Elgin Community College (I was living in Saint Charles at the time).

12

It looks a bit like the Elgin Marbles story, only messier.

Quote examples

1

If you're interested in issues like this, you should look into why Elgin Air Force Base is the "most Reddit addicted city".

2

I haven't read them all, but I highly recommend the Haden Elgin "Gentle Art" series.

3

First, if you want to define "sprawl" geographically, then the Bay Area and Chicago are almost identical: it's 40.4 miles from the loop to Elgin, and 40.2 miles from the Sunset to Pleasanton.

4

Understanding what's going on there goes a long way towards dealing with the situation, even if your ultimate decision, as an employee, is to go somewhere else, though in fact Elgin describes a technique called "semantic modulation" where you slowly change the metaphor that people are using to communicate.

Proper noun examples

1

I also have a Time Warner fiber service on premise, mainly for one of my employees who lives just outside Elgin, TX.

2

Elgin did not remove all the marbles, but only a portion, so we can easily see what happened to the ones left behind.

3

The Acropolis Museum [1] stores 5 of the 6 Erechtheion caryatids (the 6th is in London), as well as the portions of the Parthenon frieze that weren't removed by Lord Elgin.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use elgin in a sentence?

Just happened to be waiting for a Elgin 883 movement to finish drying from a clean/rinse cycle.

What does elgin mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is elgin?

elgin is commonly used as noun.