bacon

Definition of Bacon in English :

Noun

1. bacon

back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried

English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)

roger bacon

3. 1st baron verulam, bacon, baron verulam, francis bacon, sir francis bacon, viscount st. albans

English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bacon

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noun

1.

meat from the back and sides of a pig, dried, salted, and usually smoked

2. bring home the bacon

3. save someone's bacon

noun

1.

Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans. 1561–1626, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist; described the inductive method of reasoning: his works include Essays (1625), The Advancement of Learning (1605), and Novum Organum (1620)

2.

Francis. 1909–92, British painter, born in Dublin, noted for his distorted, richly coloured human figures, dogs, and carcasses

3.

Roger. ?1214–92, English Franciscan monk, scholar, and scientist: stressed the importance of experiment, demonstrated that air is required for combustion, and first used lenses to correct vision. His Opus Majus (1266) is a compendium of all the sciences of his age

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FrancisBaron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans 1561-1626; Eng. philosopher, essayist, & statesman

2.

Francis1909-92; Brit. painter, born in Ireland

3.

Nathaniel1647-76; Am. colonist born in England: leader of a rebellion (1676) which sought social reform

4.

Roger1214?-94; Eng. philosopher & scientist

noun

salted and smoked meat from the back or sides of a hog

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English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.

Irish-born British painter best known for his portraits in which subjects are distorted and invested with feelings of terror.

English friar, scientist, and philosopher whose Opus Majus (1267) argued that Christian studies should encompass the sciences.

English-born American colonist who led Bacon's Rebellion (1676), in which a group of frontiersmen captured and burned Jamestown in an attempt to gain reforms and greater participation in the government of Virginia.

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The salted and smoked meat from the back and sides of a pig.

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