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Dale

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Dale  (dl), Sir Henry Hallett 1875-1968.
British physiologist. He shared a 1936 Nobel Prize for work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

Dale, Sir Thomas Died 1619.
English-born naval commander and colonial administrator noted for his strict rule of Virginia from 1611 to 1616.

dale  (dl)
n.
A valley: galloped over hill and dale.

[Middle English, from Old English dæl.]

dale [deɪl]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) an open valley, usually in an area of low hills
[Old English dæl; related to Old Frisian del, Old Norse dalr, Old High German tal valley]

Dale [deɪl]
n
(Biographies / Dale, Sir Henry Hallet (1875-1968) M, English, SCIENCE: physiologist) Sir Henry Hallet. 1875-1968, English physiologist: shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1936 with Otto Loewi for their work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses
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Noun1.Daledale - an open river valley (in a hilly area)
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
vale, valley - a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

dale
noun valley, glen, vale, dell, dingle, strath (Scot.), coomb farmhouses all across the dale
Translations
dale [deɪl] Nvalle m
the (Yorkshire) Daleslos valles de Yorkshire
dale [ˈdeɪl] nvallon m
dale
n (N Engl liter) → Tal nt
dale [deɪl] n (in North of England, also) (liter) → valle f
dale [deɪl] n (in North of England, also) (liter) → valle f


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Dale, Spiggot, and Dale, of Threadneedle Street, indeed), who, having had dealings with the old man, and kindnesses from him in days when he was kind to everybody with whom he dealt, sent this little spar out of the wreck with their love to good Mrs.
Burges, Duer and Mackenzie, 1843; The French Governess; or, The Embroidered Handkerchief, 1843; Richard Dale, 1843; Wyandotte, 1843; Ned Myers, or Life before the Mast, 1843; Afloat and Ashore (Miles Wallingford, Lucy Hardinge), two series, 1844; Proceedings of the Naval Court-Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, etc.
He took to flight, and they followed him over hill and dale, with the eagerness and per-severance of starving men.
 
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