Alex

English - English

Definition of Alex in English English dictionary: A male given name, shortened form of Alexander; A female given name, short form of Alexandra or the female name Alexis, or a spelling variant of Alix
'Oh, yes, she's changed again,' Alice said. 'I never got used to Alexandra, either. It never occurred to me that Sandra was short for Alexandra - anyway, she's Sandra on her birth certificate.'.; short form of Alexander, rarely an English form of Alexius; short form of Alexandra or the female name Alexis, or a spelling variant of Alix; {i} male first name (form of Alexander); female first name (form of Alexandra); Fictitious WLiiA contestant, used to identify imposters and freaks in #wliia IRC chat; A young, nomadic bard on the Major Continent Born in Lux His full name is Alexander Jovan Cantare One of the Chosen; abbr External Alarm Set; Acronym for AIDJEX Lead Experiment, which took place Feb 23 through Apr 10, 1974 and investigated small-scale meteorological and oceanographic processes associated with leads in pack ice near Barrow, Alaska The experiment plan called for rapid deployment of five instrumental huts, measuring equipment and personnel by helicopeters and fixed-wing aircraft The processes of primary interest were sensible, latent, and radiant heat loss to the atmosphere as well as the sinking of convective plumes of saline water formed by freezing and brine rejection at the surface Logistical problems limited the success of the experiment, with the helicopter range limiting deployment to within 30 miles of Barrow and a dearth of suitable leads in that area See SMith et al (1990); wrote on 08 4 2002 at 22: 22All - I am trying now to make a version of this dictionary for download Hopefully it will be ready soon
Alex Haley: born Aug. 11, 1921, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S. died Feb. 10, 1992, Seattle, Wash. U.S. writer. He was raised in North Carolina, served in the Coast Guard (1939-59), and later became a journalist. An interview with Malcolm X led to the best-selling Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965; film, 1992). His greatest success, however, was Roots (1976, special Pulitzer Prize), a history of seven generations of his ancestors beginning with their enslavement. Adapted for television, it became one of the most popular American television shows ever and spurred great interest in genealogy, though Haley later admitted that the saga was partly fictional
Alex North: born Dec. 4, 1910, Chester, Pa., U.S. died Sept. 8, 1991, Pacific Palisades, Calif. U.S. film composer and conductor. North studied at the Curtis Institute and Juilliard. In the early 1930s he traveled to Moscow and became the sole American member of the Union of Soviet Composers. He composed ballet scores for Martha Graham and others and later studied and conducted in Mexico City. North's score for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), the first jazz-based film score, brought him to prominence. His dozens of films over 30 years include Spartacus (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), and Prizzi's Honor (1985)
alex boncayao brigade: an urban hit squad and guerrila group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s
K. Alex Müller: {i} Karl Alexander Müller (born 1927), Swiss physicist, 1987 Nobel Prize winner for Physics (together with J. Georg Bednorz) for his research and discovery of superconductivity

Alex

Hyphenation

Al·ex

Turkish pronunciation

älıks

Pronunciation

/ˈaləks/ /ˈæləks/

Etymology

() Short form of Alexander, from Latin Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros) 'he who wards off men', i.e. protector, possibly of Hittite origin; and from Alexius, from the same Ancient Greek root, alexios "helping, defending". These two origins of Alex are indistinguishable in most languages.