Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northern California on San Francisco Bay north of Oakland. A branch of the University of California is here (established 1868).
- Busby,American choreographer and film director noted for the lavish, synchronized dance routines he created for Broadway and Hollywood musicals.
- George,Irish prelate and philosopher whose idealist philosophy, directed against the materialism of Thomas Hobbes, is based on the thought that to be is to perceive or to be perceived. His works include Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Bishop George Berkeley; b. 1685, d. 1753.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A habitational
surname from the Old English words beorce léah meaningbirch lea . - proper noun A male
given name transferred from the surname. - proper noun Any of several places, including a city in
California . - proper noun The University of California in Berkeley
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; site of the University of California at Berkeley
- noun Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)
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Examples
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Once a name like berkeley.edu got assigned to the University of California at Berkeley, its local network administrator could independently add computers within the domain, numbering and naming them.
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BERKELEY - Berkeley blogger Jane Stillwater is suing the federal government for the cost of an airplane ticket to Kuwait and the cost of 15 mocha lattes from the airport Starbucks, where she spent two sleepless days because her previously approved embed with the U.S.
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BERKELEY - Human ancestors who roamed the dry and open savannas of Africa about 2 million years ago routinely began to include meat in their diets to compensate for a serious decline in the quality of plant foods, according to a physical anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Latest Articles The Birmingham News 2010
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BERKELEY - Human ancestors who roamed the dry and open savannas of Africa about 2 million years ago routinely began to include meat in their diets to compensate for a serious decline in the quality of plant foods, according to a physical anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Latest Articles The Birmingham News 2010
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BERKELEY - A judge has ruled that University of California, Berkeley police illegally searched the camera of a photojournalist covering a student protest outside the chancellor's home.
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BERKELEY - Officials at the University of California at Berkeley say hackers infiltrated restricted computer databases, and the personal information of up to 160,000 people may be compromised.
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(Media-Newswire. com) - BERKELEY - Two new studies led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, suggest that taking maternity leave before and after the birth of a baby is a good investment in terms of health benefits for both mothers and newborns.
Media Newswire 2009
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BERKELEY - The University of California, Berkeley, announced today (Tuesday, April 7) that it has offered freshman admission for the 2009-2010 school year to almost 13,000 high school students, including several nationally-ranked debaters, a world-champion figure skater, and a set of triplets.
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BERKELEY - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified a gene that plays a critical regulatory role in the process of converting dietary carbohydrates to fat.
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BERKELEY - Most foreign nationals studying at universities in the United States say American higher education is the best in the world, but few plan to remain permanently in this country after graduation to pursue their careers, according to a new study co-authored by a University of California, Berkeley, authority on technology and the global economy.
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