graham

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A male given name, transferred from the surname
A Scottish surname and clan name
flour made by grinding the wheat berry including the bran
American dancer and choreographer. A central figure in modern dance, she founded the Dance Repertory Theatre in New York City in 1930. Her works include Appalachian Spring (1944) and Clytemnestra (1958). American religious leader who has conducted evangelical tours worldwide. Florence Nightingale Graham Ballard James Graham Bell Alexander Graham Graham Billy Graham Jorie Graham Katharine Graham Martha Graham Otto Everett Jr. Greene Henry Graham Montrose James Graham 5th earl and 1st marquess of Sutherland Graham Vivian
transferred use of the surname
{i} male first name; family name; Martha Graham (1894-1991), American dancer and choreographer
United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918)
United States dancer and choreographer whose work was noted for its austerity and technical rigor (1893-1991)
flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage)
United States dancer and choreographer whose work was noted for its austerity and technical rigor (1893-1991) United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918)
Graham biscuit
Bread made of unbolted wheat flour. Common spelling: Graham cracker
Graham biscuits
plural form of Graham biscuit
Graham bread
Bread made of unsifted wheat flour; a Graham cracker
Graham breads
plural form of Graham bread
Graham cracker
Alternative spelling of graham cracker
graham cracker
A type of cracker, usually made of graham flour, sweetened (usually with honey inter alia), forming a rectangle of about 2.5 inches by five inches, and perforated down the middle
graham cracker
A specific cracker made of graham flour, developed in the nineteenth century
graham crackers
plural form of graham cracker
Graham Bell
{i} Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), American scientist and inventor, inventor of the telephone
Graham Greene
a British writer of novels and plays, one of the most respected British writers of the 20th century. His books include Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory, and the characters in his stories often have to make difficult moral decisions (1904-91). born Oct. 2, 1904, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, Eng. died April 3, 1991, Vevey, Switz. British author. After studying at the University of Oxford, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1926. Beginning 1930 he worked principally as a freelance journalist for several decades, during which he traveled widely. Stamboul Train (1932; also titled Orient Express; film, 1934) was the first of his "entertainments," thrillers with considerable moral complexity and depth; others included A Gun for Sale (1936; also titled This Gun for Hire; film, 1942), The Confidential Agent (1939; film, 1945), and The Third Man (1949; film, 1949). His finest novels Brighton Rock (1938; film, 1948), The Power and the Glory (1940; film, 1962), The Heart of the Matter (1948; film, 1954), and The End of the Affair (1951; film, 1999) all have distinctly religious themes. Several of his novels set in "third-world" nations on the brink of political upheaval were also adapted as films
Graham Greene
{i} (1904-1991) British novelist and playwright
Graham Island
An island off western British Columbia, Canada, in the Pacific Ocean. It is the largest and northernmost of the Queen Charlotte Islands
Graham Land
A region of Antarctica near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Part of the British Antarctic Territory, it is also claimed by Argentina and Chile
Graham Nash
{i} (born 1942) British-born American singer and guitarist, member of the folk rock group "Crosby Stills and Nash
Graham Sutherland
a British artist, famous especially for his picture of Winston Churchill, which Lady Churchill (Churchill's wife) later burned because she did not like it (1903-80). born Aug. 24, 1903, London, Eng. died Feb. 17, 1980, London British painter. After studying art in London, he taught and practiced printmaking (1926-40) at the Chelsea School of Art. His early work was characterized by an exacting representationalism that evolved into Surrealism. He turned primarily to painting 1935 and served as official war artist 1940-45; his war paintings are an evocative record of desolation. His "thorn period" began with his Crucifixion (1946), considered to be one of the most important religious paintings of the 20th century. In such late works he incorporated anthropomorphic insect and plant forms, particularly thorns, which he transformed into powerful, frightening totemic images. Sutherland was known, too, for his expressionistic, penetrating portraits. He also designed the enormous tapestry ( 1955-61) for the new Coventry Cathedral
Graham Vivian Sutherland
v. born Aug. 24, 1903, London, Eng. died Feb. 17, 1980, London British painter. After studying art in London, he taught and practiced printmaking (1926-40) at the Chelsea School of Art. His early work was characterized by an exacting representationalism that evolved into Surrealism. He turned primarily to painting 1935 and served as official war artist 1940-45; his war paintings are an evocative record of desolation. His "thorn period" began with his Crucifixion (1946), considered to be one of the most important religious paintings of the 20th century. In such late works he incorporated anthropomorphic insect and plant forms, particularly thorns, which he transformed into powerful, frightening totemic images. Sutherland was known, too, for his expressionistic, penetrating portraits. He also designed the enormous tapestry ( 1955-61) for the new Coventry Cathedral
graham bread
bread made of graham (whole wheat) flour
graham bread
Bread made of unbolted wheat flour
graham cracker
semisweet whole-wheat cracker
graham cracker
{i} slightly sweet crackers that are made out of graham flour
graham flour
A slightly sweet, usually rectangular cracker made with whole-wheat flour
graham flour
flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage)
graham flour
{i} flour that is made out of whole wheat kernels and has not been sifted to remove the bran
Alexander Graham Bell
a Scottish scientist and inventor who lived in the US. He invented the telephone in 1876 (1847-1922). born March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, Scot. died Aug. 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Can. Scottish-born U.S. audiologist and inventor. He moved to the U.S. in 1871 to teach the visible-speech system developed by his father, Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905). He opened his own school in Boston for training teachers of the deaf (1872) and was influential in disseminating these methods. In 1876 he became the first person to transmit intelligible words through electric wire ("Watson, come here, I want you," spoken to his assistant Thomas Watson). He patented the telephone the same year, and in 1877 he cofounded Bell Telephone Co. With the proceeds from France's Volta Prize, he founded Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C., in 1880. His experiments there led to the invention of the photophone (which transmitted speech by light rays), the audiometer (which measured acuteness of hearing), the Graphophone (an early practical sound recorder), and working wax recording media, both flat and cylindrical, for the Graphophone. He was chiefly responsible for founding the journal Science, founded the American Association to Promote Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1890), and continued his significant research on deafness throughout his life
Alexander Graham Bell
{i} (1847-1922) American scientist (born in Scotland) who invented the telephone
Billy Graham
in full William Franklin Graham, Jr. born Nov. 7, 1918, Charlotte, N.C., U.S. U.S. Christian evangelist. The son of a dairy farmer, he underwent a conversion experience at age 16 during a revival. After attending Bob Jones College and the Florida Bible Institute, he was ordained a Southern Baptist clergyman in 1940. He later earned a degree in anthropology from Wheaton College. He won numerous converts with his tent revivals and radio broadcasts, and by 1950 he had become fundamentalism's leading spokesman. He led a series of widely televised international revival crusades through the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Minneapolis, Minn., and he enjoyed close associations with a series of U.S. presidents. Graham and his wife, Ruth, were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1996
Billy Graham
(born 1918) American Southern Baptist preacher and evangelist, co-founder of the magazine "Christianity Today", producer of television and radio programs related to Christianity
Florence Nightingale Graham
{i} birth name of Elizabeth Arden (1891-1966), Canadian-born woman who became famous for building a large cosmetics corporation in the United States and marketed her cosmetics products internationally
Henry Graham Greene
born Oct. 2, 1904, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, Eng. died April 3, 1991, Vevey, Switz. British author. After studying at the University of Oxford, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1926. Beginning 1930 he worked principally as a freelance journalist for several decades, during which he traveled widely. Stamboul Train (1932; also titled Orient Express; film, 1934) was the first of his "entertainments," thrillers with considerable moral complexity and depth; others included A Gun for Sale (1936; also titled This Gun for Hire; film, 1942), The Confidential Agent (1939; film, 1945), and The Third Man (1949; film, 1949). His finest novels Brighton Rock (1938; film, 1948), The Power and the Glory (1940; film, 1962), The Heart of the Matter (1948; film, 1954), and The End of the Affair (1951; film, 1999) all have distinctly religious themes. Several of his novels set in "third-world" nations on the brink of political upheaval were also adapted as films
James Graham 5th earl and 1st marquess of Montrose
born 1612 died May 21, 1650, Edinburgh, Scot. Scottish general in the English Civil Wars. He served in the Covenanter army that invaded northern England (1640) but remained a royalist. Appointed lieutenant-general by Charles I (1644), he led his royalist army of Highlanders and Irish to victories in major battles in Scotland. After Charles's defeat in 1645, Montrose fled to the European continent. He returned to Scotland in 1650 with 1,200 men, but he was defeated, captured, and hanged
James Graham Ballard
born Nov. 15, 1930, Shanghai, China British writer. Ballard spent four years of his childhood in a Japanese prison camp, an experience he described in Empire of the Sun (1984; film, 1987). His science fiction is often set in ecologically unbalanced landscapes caused by decadent technological excess. His apocalyptic novels, often shockingly violent, include Crash (1973; film, 1996), Concrete Island (1974), and High Rise (1975). His later works include the short-story collection War Fever (1990) and the novels The Kindness of Women (1991) and Cocaine Nights (1998)
Jorie Graham
born May 9, 1951, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. poet. She studied at New York University and the University of Iowa, where she later taught. Her abstract, intellectual verse is known for its visual imagery, complex metaphors, and philosophical content. Her first volume of verse, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (1980), contains compact, intricate poems that explore death, beauty, and change. Later volumes include The End of Beauty (1987), Region of Unlikeness (1991), The Dream of the Unified Field (1995, Pulitzer Prize), The Errancy (1997), and Swarm (2000)
Jr. William Franklin Graham
in full William Franklin Graham, Jr. born Nov. 7, 1918, Charlotte, N.C., U.S. U.S. Christian evangelist. The son of a dairy farmer, he underwent a conversion experience at age 16 during a revival. After attending Bob Jones College and the Florida Bible Institute, he was ordained a Southern Baptist clergyman in 1940. He later earned a degree in anthropology from Wheaton College. He won numerous converts with his tent revivals and radio broadcasts, and by 1950 he had become fundamentalism's leading spokesman. He led a series of widely televised international revival crusades through the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Minneapolis, Minn., and he enjoyed close associations with a series of U.S. presidents. Graham and his wife, Ruth, were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1996
Katharine Graham
orig. Katharine Meyer born July 16, 1917, New York, N.Y., U.S. died July 17, 2001, Boise, Idaho U.S. owner and publisher of news publications. The daughter of Eugene Meyer (1875-1959), owner and publisher of The Washington Post (1933-46), she studied at Vassar College and the University of Chicago. In 1940 she married Philip Graham, who later became the Post's publisher. The Grahams acquired the paper from Meyer in 1948. After her husband's suicide in 1963, she stepped in as head of the Washington Post Co. (which had purchased Newsweek in 1961). Under her leadership, and through the editorial direction of Ben Bradlee, the Post became one of the nation's most powerful newspapers, particularly with its coverage of the Watergate scandal. Her best-selling autobiography, Personal History, earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1997
Martha Graham
{i} (1893-1991) American dancer and choreographer, one of the founders of modern dance
Martha Graham
a US dancer and choreographer (=someone who decides what movements dancers will do during a performance) , who had an important influence on the development of modern dance (1894-1991). born May 11, 1894, Allegheny county, Penn., U.S. died April 1, 1991, New York, N.Y. U.S. dancer, teacher, choreographer, and foremost exponent of modern dance. She studied from 1916 with Ted Shawn at the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, then left in 1923 for New York, where she founded her own school in 1927 and a performing company in 1929. She choreographed more than 160 works, creating unique "dance plays" and using a variety of themes to express emotion and conflict. Many are based on American themes, including Appalachian Spring (1944); other works include Primitive Mysteries (1931), El Penitente (1940), Letter to the World (1940), Cave of the Heart (1946), Clytemnestra (1958), Phaedra (1962), and Frescoes (1978). She collaborated for many years with Louis Horst, her musical director, and with Isamu Noguchi, who designed many of her sets. She retired from dancing in 1970 but continued to teach and choreograph. Her technique became the first significant alternative to classical ballet, and her influence extended worldwide through her choreography and her students
Otto Everett Jr. Graham
born Dec. 6, 1921, Waukegan, Ill., U.S. U.S. gridiron football player and coach. He was a star tailback at Northwestern University, but he is best remembered as quarterback of the Cleveland Browns during a 10-year period (1946-55) in which they won 105 games, lost 17, and tied 5 in regular season play and won 7 of 10 championship games. Graham's career average yardage per pass (8.63) was not surpassed until the 1980s. His coaching career was mainly with the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1959-66) and the Washington Redskins (1966-68)
Otto Graham
born Dec. 6, 1921, Waukegan, Ill., U.S. U.S. gridiron football player and coach. He was a star tailback at Northwestern University, but he is best remembered as quarterback of the Cleveland Browns during a 10-year period (1946-55) in which they won 105 games, lost 17, and tied 5 in regular season play and won 7 of 10 championship games. Graham's career average yardage per pass (8.63) was not surpassed until the 1980s. His coaching career was mainly with the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1959-66) and the Washington Redskins (1966-68)
Sylvester Graham
(1794-1851) American Presbyterian minister, advocate of healthy eating and vegetarianism, inventor of graham crackers
graham

    Hyphenation

    Gra·ham

    Turkish pronunciation

    greyım

    Synonyms

    graham flour

    Pronunciation

    /ˈgrāəm/ /ˈɡreɪəm/

    Etymology

    [ 'gram-, 'grA-&m- ] (noun.) 1882. Named after Sylvester Graham.
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