Word Finder - pioneer

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One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.

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A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.

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Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform.

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A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.

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A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.

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A child of 10–16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming a member of the Communist Party.

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To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.

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The young doctor pioneered a new life-saving surgical technique.

He was the pioneer of British canoeing.

Atlanta owes its origin to the development of pioneer railroads of Georgia.

For Dr. Howe is the great pioneer on whose work that of Miss Sullivan and other teachers of the deaf-blind immediately depends.

At Allahabad is published the Pioneer, perhaps the best known English paper in India.

In science, on the other hand, he was a pioneer, working wholly for the future, and in great part alone.

He was a pioneer in the fields of patrology and of biblical archaeology.

James calls his work the "last word" of the earlier stage of psychology, but he was in reality the pioneer of the new.

He was specially noted for his discovery of the electrical conductivity of bismuth and other metals, and for his pioneer work in wireless telegraphy.

Now that the controversy has cleared away, we see that in spite of Buckle's too confident formulation of his laws, his pioneer work in a great field marks him out as the Augustine of the scientific age.

The home mission as the pioneer in opening up new fields of labour, and the endowment scheme which renders permanent the religious centres that the mission has founded, are both traceable to Dr Chalmers.

Henceforth he appears more in the character of an explorer, but it must be remembered that he regarded himself to the last as a pioneer missionary, whose work was to open up the country to others.

These and numerous other works and editions of the Bible are known only to students, but as a pioneer in a branch of Biblical study which received a wide development in the 19th century, Calmet is worthy of remembrance.

In church history Semler did the work of a pioneer in many periods and in several departments.

After the war he engaged in the manufacture of gold and silver ware, and became a pioneer in the production in America of copper plating and copper spikes for ships.

The great pioneer in this field was Omar Khayyam, who flourished in the 11 th century.

The mercantile interests of Venice made it the pioneer in this direction, though its representatives abroad were at first commercial rather than diplomatic agents.

Till 1889 they maintained two theological chairs in Belfast, where John Scott Porter (1801-1880) was a pioneer in biblical criticism; they now send their students to England for their theological education, though in certain respects their views and practices are more conservative than those of their English brethren.

There he met the younger Lewis Hallam (1738-1808), a pioneer American theatrical manager and actor, who induced him to remove to the United States, and in 1783 he settled in Philadelphia, where he at once took the oath of allegiance to the United States, was admitted to practise law in 1785, and rapidly attained a prominent position at the bar.

Much admired as he was by his contemporaries, his fame as a scholar therefore soon declined, but his reputation as a pioneer in Latin scholarship in England and as a teacher remains.

Most of his stories portray the pioneer manners and dialect of the Central West, and the Hoosier Schoolmaster was one of the first examples of American local realistic fiction; it was very popular, and was translated into French, German and Danish.

Our pioneer product was the first aluminum alloy wheelchair ever made in Taiwan.

A pioneer in the study of hospital cross-infection, he was the first to use the term antiseptic in its modern sense.

The seaside resort is now awash with young Navy recruits and members of the Pioneer Corps.

Students at the Pioneer Cadet School wore silver colored braid.

A new community of plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms has largely replaced the earliest pioneer species which first colonized the bare ground.

We also delve into the world of Adelaide Herrmann, Alexander's wife, now considered one of the great pioneer female conjurers.

Cambridgeâs CDT, for example, is recognized as a pioneer in polymer organic light-emitting diodes (P-OLEDs ).

Meanwhile, Baird asked the American pioneer Philo Farnsworth to come over to Britain to demonstrate his image dissector camera.

He performed pioneer work in the early days of the management of tracheo-oesophageal fistula in neonates.

It was the extraordinary variety of rocks which brought the early pioneer geologists here.

Dornoch Firth and Morrich More Highland Dornoch Firth and Morrich More has the most extensive area of pioneer glasswort Salicornia spp. saltmarsh in Scotland.

A durable pioneer homestead constructed of double-wall plastic to survive years on the backyard frontier.

Also, during the 1940s, flying pioneer Sir Alan Cobham helped develop in-flight refueling here.

After weaning, pigs are fed using Pioneer feeders for 13 days, then move straight onto the home produced liquid weaner diet.

To be recognized as a civic pioneer, a local authority need not take on new responsibilities.

Lots had to be drawn for the pioneer, and so the first TV advert in the UK was for Gibbs sr toothpaste.

The Center will pioneer an emerging field that brings together statistics and the recent extensive advances in theoretically well-founded machine learning.

Lemstrom (88), who was a pioneer in this department, found an electric field highly beneficial in some but not in all cases.

This treatise must not be confused with the Natural History of Religion, in which Hume acts as a pioneer for comparative religion, with its study of facts.

Catherine Beecher, who was eager to establish what should be in effect a pioneer college for women, accompanied him; and with her went Harriet as an assistant, taking an active part in the literary and school life, contributing stories and sketches to local journals and compiling a school geography.

Our knowledge of the chemical constitutions of the nucleus is due to the pioneer researches of Sir Lauder Brunton, Plosz, Miescher, Kossel and a host of more recent investigators.

Frankfort (said to have been named after Stephen Frank, one of an early pioneer party ambushed here by Indians) was founded in 1786 by General James Wilkinson, then deeply interested in trade with the Spanish at New Orleans, and in the midst of his Spanish intrigues.

The first Portuguese pioneer was Pedro de Sintra, who discovered and noted in 1461 the remarkable promontory of Cape Mount, Cape Mesurado (where the capital, Monrovia, is now situated) and the mouth of the Junk river.

Here they are in line with non-Christian writers or culture-mockers like Lucian of Samosata; or graver spirits like Porphyry, who champions Neo-Platonism as a rival to Christianity, and does pioneer work in criticism by attacks on some of the Old Testament books.

Benedict Spinoza, the eminent Jewish pantheist (1632-1677), to whom miracle is impossible, revelation a phrase, and who renews pioneer work in Old Testament criticism, finds at least a fair measure of liberty and comfort in Holland (his birth-land).

All the pioneer work has been done in America; in fact, until the South-Eastern Agricultural College undertook the elucidation of this subject, little was known of it in England except by a few growers.

Ohio was the pioneer state of the old North-West Territory, which embraced also what are now the states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, and the N.E.

Welcker was a pioneer in the field of archaeology, and was one of the first to insist, in opposition to the narrow methods of the older Hellenists, on the necessity of co-ordinating the study of Greek art and religion with philology.

He is famous as a pioneer in the exploration of the monuments of Greece, travelling there in1675-1676with the Englishman (Sir) George Wheler (1650-1723), whose collection of antiquities was afterwards bequeathed to Oxford University.

Boston was the pioneer municipality of the country in the establishment of open-air gymnasiums. A great improvement, planned for many years, was brought nearer by the completion of the new Cambridge Bridge.