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[ahy-zuh k] /ˈaɪ zək/ (Show IPA), 1593–1683, English writer.
3.
Samuel Moore ("Sam")1918–92, U.S. business executive and founder of Wal-Mart Stores.
4.
Sir William (Turner) 1902–83, English composer.
Related forms
Waltonian
[wawl-toh-nee-uh n] /wɔlˈtoʊ ni ən/ (Show IPA), noun, adjective
Ervin
[ur-vin] /ˈɜr vɪn/
noun
1.
Samuel James, Jr ("Sam")1896–1985, U.S. jurist and politician: senator 1954–74.
2.
a male given name.
Examples from the web for Sam
Furious and panicked, he knocks Sam unconscious and races to the house.
However, Sam tricks yama and escapes, promising to return with new weapons.
Major characters Sam is one of the original colonists of the planet.
As Sam warns yama, who loves her, she loves only those who bring her gifts of chaos.
However, he helps Sam mostly because of that connection between them.
Sam encounters him in exile while still contemplating his own rebellion.
Sam feeds max and offers advice, though he steals his astrogation manuals.
Max learns that Sam had tried to claim the deposit for himself.
The slug escapes by transferring to another person, and eventually to Sam himself.
Thoroughly disgusted by the treatment he has received, Sam is ready to quit.
British Dictionary definitions for Sam
sam
/sæm/
verb (transitive) sams, samming, sammed
1.
(Northern English, dialect) sam hold of, to collect; gather up
SAM
/sæm/
noun acronym
1.
surface-to-air missile
Peckinpah
/ˈpɛkɪnˌpɑː/
noun
1.
Sam(uel David). 1926–84, US film director, esp of Westerns, such as The Wild Bunch (1969). Among his other films are Straw Dogs (1971), Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), and Cross of Iron (1977)
Sam.
abbreviation
1.
Samuel
Walton
/ˈwɔːltən/
noun
1.
Ernest Thomas Sinton. 1903–95, Irish physicist. He succeeded in producing the first artificial transmutation of an atomic nucleus (1932) with Sir John Cockcroft, with whom he shared the Nobel prize for physics 1951
2.
Izaak (ˈaɪzək). 1593–1683, English writer, best known for The Compleat Angler (1653; enlarged 1676)
3.
Sir William (Turner). 1902–83, English composer. His works include Façade (1923), a setting of satirical verses by Edith Sitwell, the Viola Concerto (1929), and the oratorio Belshazzar's Feast (1931)
Word Origin and History for Sam
SAM
1958, acronym for surface to air missile.
Sam in Science
Walton
(wôl'tən) Irish physicist who, with John Cockcroft, was the first to successfully split an atom using a particle accelerator in 1932. For this work they shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for physics.