A placename:
scott
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for scott.
Editorial note
This book by James Scott has a very interesting perspective on the mapping of unmapped cities.
Quick take
A placename:
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of scott gathered in one view.
A municipality of La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
A town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake, No. 380, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for scott.
noun
A placename:
noun
A municipality of La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
noun
A town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake, No. 380, Saskatchewan, Canada.
noun
A number of places in the United States:
Example sentences
This book by James Scott has a very interesting perspective on the mapping of unmapped cities.
Most people do:) Take a look at Scott Adams' post on dual areas of expertise.
I.e., the same analysis as was done on Scott Alexander's post (see my link), but with the opposite result.
Brendan Eich, Orson Scott Card, Matt Taylor, Tim Hunt - among the most high profile victims, with countless numbers under the radar.
Another great Scott Sumner prediction: fiscal austerity hurts if you lack an independent central bank, but not if you don't (directly contradicting new style Keynesians, e.g.
Our investors include a16z, Eric Schmidt, Blue Run Ventures, Max Levchin, Scott Banister, and Alex Payne.
If you still have trouble after ensuring that JS and Flash are both available, drop me an e-mail at scott@weareinstrument.com and we'll look into it right away.
> Here is Scott Alexander doing some pretty good regressions (r=-0.82, p=0.0003).
> Although NYT shouldn't get off scott-free Legals aside, ultimately you're (where 'you' == 'the company') responsible for what ends up on your website.
Although NYT shouldn't get off scott-free, I think it's worth pointing out that they probably had very little to do with this and more than likely had no idea about it.
Quote examples
"There is a reason for everything" Scott Meyers, talking of the various… quirks of C++.
Scott Aaronson showed that "Post-BQP" (BQP with postselection allowed) equals the complexity class PP, which contains NP and is equivalent to the counting class #P, so there is no surprise here.
You might think that singling out software is uninteresting from a statistical perspective, as in Scott Alexander's regression it was just a single (outlier) data point, but in fact, the software industry is larger than all "heavy math content" professions combined, and holds more power in today's society.
Proper noun examples
Scott, employees generally are only able to use their home Internet connections to violate confidentiality because their work computers and connections are poorly policed.
At GitHub, some of use use Textmate, others use vim or emacs, and I think Scott's been using gedit recently.
Scott Sumner predicted the former as did most of the market monetarists.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use scott in a sentence?
This book by James Scott has a very interesting perspective on the mapping of unmapped cities.
What does scott mean?
A placename:
What part of speech is scott?
scott is commonly used as noun.