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oliver

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

Editorial note

The court jesters [1] like Stephen Colbert and John Oliver can make deep cuts while avoiding reprimand.

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Quick take

A male given name from the Germanic languages.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A male given name from the Germanic languages.

noun

A surname originating as a patronymic.

noun

A placename

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for oliver.

noun

A male given name from the Germanic languages.

noun

A surname originating as a patronymic.

noun

A placename

noun

A number of places in Canada:

Example sentences

1

The court jesters [1] like Stephen Colbert and John Oliver can make deep cuts while avoiding reprimand.

2

Like an Oliver Stone movie, this entry is interesting and fun to read despite being entirely wrong in every major respect.

3

The Oliver Hexplane is one of those designs.

4

US[1], in which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

5

The direct answer to your question is, because some antivirus systems want to work with a central server (or, in Oliver Friedrich's Immunet case, with a P2P network of collaborators).

6

I wish Oliver luck, they are technically competitors, but I've always wanted to see online scheduling work for real estate and to date no one has cracked it sufficiently well.

7

There are not multiple GC'ed VMs in Safari sharing the DOM, so I bet Oliver was talking about things like JSC as another way to script Apple stuff than Obj-C (now Swift).

8

A unanimous Supreme Court, in a famous opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., concluded that defendants who distributed leaflets to draft-age men, urging resistance to induction, could be convicted of an attempt to obstruct the draft, a criminal offense.

9

I was going to post a comment about the worth of Oliver Sacks' post, but instead I will thank you for your candidness, send you the best of my will (serving no practical purpose, but I can do no more), and bid you good night as well.

10

His books include Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: the New Global Revolutions ('Compact, urgent, present-tense, declarative and addictive' - Andy Beckett, Guardian); Live Working Die Fighting ('Indispensable, brilliant' - Ken Loach; longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award); and Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed ('Lucid and sharply polemical' - Oliver Kamm, The Times).

Quote examples

1

Oliver Sacks, in his wonderful essay collection "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" [1], describes a similar case of a soldier, "Jimmy G.", who lost his ability to form memories after being wounded in 1945.

2

It's hard not to personalize things like what Oliver Hunt said in [0], "The issue here isn't "can we make multiple vms live in webkit" it's "can we expose multiple languages to the web", to the former i say obviously as we already do, to the latter I say that we don't want to." The general tone Oliver had was akin to saying only little-endian machines should be supported on the Web.

Proper noun examples

1

Or if you really want some outsider perspective listen to John Oliver's comedy routine at The Crunchies, it's pretty cutting.

2

And I'd recommend you watch John Oliver's segment about nuclear launch codes to recalibrate your trust in those officials.

3

John Oliver's interview with Edward Snowden demonstrated that if you frame your coverage of privacy violations properly, you can get people's attention fast.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use oliver in a sentence?

The court jesters [1] like Stephen Colbert and John Oliver can make deep cuts while avoiding reprimand.

What does oliver mean?

A male given name from the Germanic languages.

What part of speech is oliver?

oliver is commonly used as noun.