English noun: Browning |
1. | Browning (person) United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926) |
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| Synonyms | John M. Browning, John Moses Browning |
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| Instance hypernym | artificer, discoverer, inventor |
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2. | Browning (person) English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889) |
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| Synonyms | Robert Browning |
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| Instance hypernym | poet |
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3. | Browning (person) English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861) |
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| Synonyms | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| Instance hypernym | poet |
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4. | browning (act) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill |
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| Samples | Proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread.
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| Synonyms | toasting |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cookery, cooking, preparation |
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