darwin
IPA: dˈɑrwɪn
Root Word: Darwin
noun
- A surname, especially referring to Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist and founder of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
- A municipality of Río Negro province, Argentina.
- The capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.
- A ghost town in Tasmania, Australia.
- A settlement on the peninsula of Lafonia, East Falkland island, Falkland Islands.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Inyo County, California.
- A ghost town in Fresno County, California.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Clark County, Illinois.
- A township and minor city in Meeker County, Minnesota.
- A small unincorporated community in Bedford Township, Meigs County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.
- A ghost town in Webb County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, deriving from the Old English name Dēorwine and revived through the surname.
- (computing) An open-source Unix operating system first released by Apple.
- A unit of evolutionary change in evolutionary biology.
- (Cambridge University, informal) Ellipsis of Darwin College, Cambridge..
- Alternative form of Derwent (English locative name) [A river in Derbyshire, England, which flows into the River Trent.]
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Examples of "darwin" in Sentences
- There's an article on Darwinism.
- Darwin was at the level of the organism.
- Not on darwin, and not in making fun of darwin.
- Darwinism is scientific and refers to adaptability.
- It directed me to drive a circuitous route to Darwin.
- Darwin's spirits were again downcast when Lyell's wife died.
- Huxley was certainly not slavish in his dealings with Darwin.
- '' 'edits and updates fields' '' if sys. platform = = 'darwin':
- Anguished, Darwin begins to suffer from a mysterious, fatiguing illness.
- Darwin noted the immense number of organisms dependent on the kelp forests.
- Popu Jeez, the militant darwin differently closed save the youthful talking.
- She is the daughter of Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell.
- I've often dreamed about forming an association for every person with the online handle "darwin" ...
- You know if darwin is right, then your ‘bible’ is all just lying mythology – hadn’t thought about that cognitive disconnect had you?
- I met up with a number of people that I went to highschool with in darwin, and it was good to see them, speak to them, see them alive and well and getting on with their lives … it felt comforting that we’d all come together to say goodbye to Joel, in not a small number of cases, the one who’d brought us together …
- Well, I possibly should have done this the other night when i was online, but it was after 2. 30am and i thought sleep would be a good idea ... hmmmm updating updating ... being in darwin again is wonderful - i've missed the place, and yes, even the weather - which by the way is absolutely amazingly stupendously GORGEOUS!!!!!
- The first one is the def insert_data (self, values_list, insert_string): '' 'inserts data in the database' '' if sys. platform = = 'darwin': (cursor, database) = link_db (self. db_path) else: (cursor, database) = link_db () cursor. execute (insert_string \% self. table_name, values_list) database. commit () database. close ()
- K is in darwin, and given the silence of not hearing from him much i would say he's enjoying himself: P I DID hear that at the wedding he caught the garter - but that's it: P lol hoping that he's really enjoying himself, he hasn't been on a holiday in all the 6 years ive known him so i KNOW he deserves it ... still, i miss him like crazy, especially when waking up in the morning, so looking forwards to wednesday when he gets back. my step brother Damian is in hospital in darwin from an industrial accident at his work - his legs were crushed, 25mm lower and they would have amputated, 25mm higher and he never would have walked again, so he's very lucky.