Beadle

Bea·dle  (bdl), George Wells 1903-1989.

American biologist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for discovering how genes transmit hereditary characteristics.

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bea·dle  (bdl)

n.

A minor parish official formerly employed in an English church to usher and keep order during services.

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[Middle English bedel, herald (from Old English bydel) and from Old French bedel (from Medieval Latin bedellus, from Old High German butil; see bheudh- in Indo-European roots).]

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beadle [ˈbiːd^əl]

n

1. (Christianity / Anglicanism) (formerly, in the Church of England) a minor parish official who acted as an usher and kept order

2. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) (in Scotland) a church official attending on the minister

3. (Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) Judaism a synagogue attendant See also shammes

4. (Social Science / Education) an official in certain British universities and other institutions

[Old English bydel; related to Old High German butil bailiff]

beadleship  n

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Beadle [ˈbiːd^əl]

n

(Biographies / Beadle, George Wells (1903-1989) M, US, SCIENCE: biologist) George Wells. 1903-89, US biologist, who shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1958 for his work in genetics

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	beadle - a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
	2.	Beadle - United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989) George Beadle, George Wells Beadle

Translations

beadle [ˈbiːdl] N

1. (Brit) (Univ) → bedel m

2. (Rel) → pertiguero m

beadle

n (old Eccl) → Kirchendiener m; (Univ) Angestellter, der bei Prozessionen den Amtsstab trägt