Cohn


Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Wikipedia.
Related to Cohn: Ferdinand Cohn

Cohn

 (kōn), Ferdinand Julius 1828-1898.
German botanist who pioneered the study of bacteria and developed a system for classifying them.

Cohn

, Roy Marcus 1927-1986.
American lawyer who gained notoriety as Joseph McCarthy's assistant during the Communist scare of the 1950s. Shortly before his death he was disbarred in New York for unethical practices.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Cohn

(koʊn)

n.
Ferdinand Julius, 1828–98, German botanist and bacteriologist.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Cohn - German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
Cohn will report to Christine Kalla, executive vice president, general counsel and chief ethics and compliance officer.
Travelers Adds Chief Sustainability Officer to Executive Ranks
has created a new position of chief sustainability officer and named Yafit Cohn to fill the post.
Travelers Names Cohn to New Chief Sustainability Officer Post
Tegeler, Cohn was sentenced to jail, probation, ordered to attend a victim impact panel, undergo alcohol treatment and pay $1,520 in court fines, records show.
McHenry man pleads guilty to stealing BMW, leading Elgin police on chase
The local partner of Burson Cohn and Wolfe, a New York based communications and public relations firm, is among local agencies that will be feted in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 16.
PR firm scoops five awards at African fete
In this respect, the portrayal of Robert Cohn as a dominant/mature boxer while at the same time a submissive/immature man comes to signify his masochistic self, leading the reader to uncover the social conditions and cultural politics that existed in the 1920s.
Toward the Mastery of Submission: Robert Cohn's Problem with Masochism in The Sun Also Rises
Cohn joined Stephenson Cancer Center from Battelle Memorial Institute in Arlington, Virginia, where she served as a senior research scientist.
Tobacco regulatory scientist joins Stephenson
"We've really completed our transformation from being a magazine, which we have been for 161 years, to really being a multiplatform media company," Cohn tells Adweek.
Bob Cohn: PRESIDENT / THE ATLANTIC: The publisher is having one of its strongest years ever: revenue is up, the newsroom is growing and its platforms are expanding
That is until July of 2015, when, according to Cohn, he was essentially forced by his bank, Bank of the West, to sell his estate--and name --to Vintage Wine Estates group to pay off $24 million debt.
Bruce Cohn's Second Wine Act
The ironyand the clue that signaled Hemingway's punchwas that The Sun Also Rises depicts Robert Cohn as an expert boxer, a former champion at Princeton who took up the sport to counteract his Jewish self-consciousness.
Harold Loeb, Hemingway's Schlemiel
Trump has been considering a potential replacement for Cohn as director of the National Economic Council.
Trump considers TV commentator as possible economic adviser
Cohn, President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, said on Tuesday that he would resign, becoming the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the Trump administration.
Trump's top economic aide to resign after tariff dispute
The departure of Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, was expected to be finalized in a few weeks and will blow a hole in Trump's already depleted advisory team at a time when the economy is growing but markets are volatile.
Gary Cohn, Trump top adviser quits on aluminium import tarrif plans

Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?