Quine

[ kwahyn ]

noun

1. Willard van Or·man [awr, -m, uh, n], 1908–2000, U.S. philosopher and logician.

quine

¹

/ kwəɪn /

noun

1. a variant of quean

Quine

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/ kwaɪn /

noun

1. QuineWillard van Orman19082000MUSPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Willard van Orman. 1908–2000, US philosopher. His works include Word and Object (1960), Philosophy of Logic (1970), The Roots of Reference (1973), and The Logic of Sequences (1990)

Example Sentences

This time, Strike is hobbling all over London searching for Owen Quine, an author gone with no warning and no word for 10 days.

From The Daily Beast

More From The Telegraph: Raymond Aubrac Jacques Vergès John Quine This article was first published by The Telegraph.

From The Daily Beast

No; a quine in the lottery, won by Europe, and paid by France; it was hardly worth while erecting a lion for it.

From Project Gutenberg

Matters stood so when one evening Peggy Quine was dressing up her mistress's hair for dinner, and answering the usual question.

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So Peggy Quine is telling me—a little person with a spyglass, and that fond of the mistress you wouldn't think.

From Project Gutenberg

Only the simple drawing, the ambe and the terne to be retained; the quarterne and the quine to be abolished.

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Vive Klindworth, quine mangeait et ne buvait pas, mais qui assistait!

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