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thurston

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

Editorial note

Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore decided they wanted to start making music, so they recruited Lee Ranaldo and eventually found a drummer.

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Quick take

A surname derived from the Old Norse given name Þorsteinn, brought to England by Vikings.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A surname derived from the Old Norse given name Þorsteinn, brought to England by Vikings.

noun

A male given name from the Germanic languages, occasional transferred use of the surname.

noun

A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9165).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for thurston.

noun

A surname derived from the Old Norse given name Þorsteinn, brought to England by Vikings.

noun

A male given name from the Germanic languages, occasional transferred use of the surname.

noun

A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9165).

noun

A number of places in the United States:

Example sentences

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Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore decided they wanted to start making music, so they recruited Lee Ranaldo and eventually found a drummer.

2

In one of the comments on it, there is a link to a paper[1] by Thurston that is well worth your time.

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Similarly, Nebraska's outlier is Thurston County, home of the Omaha and Winnebago reservations.

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IMO Bill Thurston is saying people are people first and mathematicians second.

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If I was on Baratunde Thurston side of the conversation though, I would be operating on that assumption that he is one.

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Adrian Thurston has done a fantastic job with Ragel.

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Put another way, Thurston Howell doesn't start a summer painting business staffed by college students, or a recruiting business which demands 90 hour weeks for the first ten years of life; instead Frank from Gloucester does because he can't stomach the thought of working for someone else for the next 40 years.

Quote examples

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From the article: "According to Thurston’s own model, Growth Science’s own chance of survival following its current business model is about 69 percent.

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Thomas Thurston in his TechCrunch article "Christensen Vs.

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Thurston 1994, "On proof and progress in mathematics" Gives a good amount of insight into how academia works for mathematics, and gives a good contrast with how CS works.

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+1: Will Thurston's: "On Proof and Progress in Mathematics" is a highly highly recommended read.

Proper noun examples

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The question is how exactly the attacker got into Thurston's email account at Harvard.

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By the way, the author is William Thurston, a renowned mathematician and Fields medalist.

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Proof for the conjecture that William Thurston's earthquake flow on Teichmüller space is ergodic.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use thurston in a sentence?

Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore decided they wanted to start making music, so they recruited Lee Ranaldo and eventually found a drummer.

What does thurston mean?

A surname derived from the Old Norse given name Þorsteinn, brought to England by Vikings.

What part of speech is thurston?

thurston is commonly used as noun.