Used in a Sentence

roscoe

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

Editorial note

An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A hamlet and census-designated place in Sullivan County, New York, United States, named after Senator Roscoe Conkling.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A hamlet and census-designated place in Sullivan County, New York, United States, named after Senator Roscoe Conkling.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname.

noun

A surname from Old Norse.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for roscoe.

noun

A hamlet and census-designated place in Sullivan County, New York, United States, named after Senator Roscoe Conkling.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname.

noun

A surname from Old Norse.

noun

(US, slang) A handgun, particularly a revolver.

Example sentences

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An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm.

2

However, the dean relented after a call from Roscoe Pound, the former dean of Harvard Law and a Munger family friend.

3

I noticed also that Roscoe Bartlett, the rep running that hearing, moved entirely off the grid after retirement.

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I had an advisor in undergrad in plasma physics named Roscoe White who was also quite humble and brilliant.

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The name of the terminal program was Roscoe - pretty much un-PC.

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I listened to this 2021 talk from Timothy Roscoe and I believe it was interesting.

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Where you'd probably actually buy, with $800k burning a hole in your pocket, is Wicker/Bucktown, Lakeview, Hyde Park or Roscoe Village.

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A few months ago in Minneapolis I saw Jack DeJohnette ‘Made in Chicago’ featuring Muhal Richard Abrams, Larry Gray, Henry Threadgill & Roscoe Mitchell.

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When the federal government set limits on crop production with the Constitution's Interstate Commerce Clause as its justification, Roscoe Filburn was simply growing wheat over the limit to feed his farm animals.

10

While Roscoe could argue that it's in a company's interest to invest in operating system infrastructure that is better-equipped to deal with modern systems, it may be cheaper for the company, at least in the short term, to just modify Linux and call it a day.

Quote examples

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Just this morning I was listening to the tale of woe regarding Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle on the Dana Gould podcast[1].

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BUT, search for "Roscoe, NY", and then search for "Agloe, NY", and it finds the place just fine.

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"Dave Starr", "Susan Thunder", and "Roscoe Dupran" tangled with each other through almost any format available to them.

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A favorite related to talk is Roscoe's keynote titled "It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware" [1] in which he discusses some of the outcomes/consequences of kernels (like Linux) largely sticking their heads in the sand on the issue of these massively heterogeneous SoCs.

Proper noun examples

1

Here's a Usenix presentation by the last author, Timothy Roscoe, from August, 2021 on YouTube.

2

They didn't test stereotypically low class white names like Wilbur, Billy Bob, Roscoe, Harlan etc.

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Mothy Roscoe, the Barrelfish PI, gave a really great talk at ATC 2021 [0].

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use roscoe in a sentence?

An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm.

What does roscoe mean?

A hamlet and census-designated place in Sullivan County, New York, United States, named after Senator Roscoe Conkling.

What part of speech is roscoe?

roscoe is commonly used as noun.