Governor
['gʌv(ə)nə] or ['ɡʌvɚnɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel).
(noun.) the head of a state government.
Typist: Remington--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
(n.) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
(n.) A pilot; a steersman.
(n.) A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ruler, director, manager, comptroller, superintendent, overseer.[2]. Executive, chief magistrate.[3]. Tutor, instructor, guardian.
Editor: Miriam
Examples
- I belong to the shop, only my sister has a theory that our governor must never know it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The governor hisself'll be down here presently. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The T'other Governor he's always joked his jokes agin me, owing, as I believe, to my being a honest man as gets my living by the sweat of my brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Tell your governor that Blathers and Duff is here, will you? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A boss was telling a governor how to extend his power. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Hooroar T'otherest Governor! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Day arter to-morrow, governor. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Governor of North Carolina called for everybody who could stand behind a parapet and shoot a gun, to join them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The revenues of the Governor of Coventry Island are not large. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- My Governor, I am sure, will always be proud to entertain one whom I so much esteem. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Not a inch sooner, governor. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I thought you knowed the man I mean, learned governor. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And you needn't, says Mr. Bucket in a considerate and private voice, you needn't commit yourself to too low a figure, governor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hooroar T'other t'other Governor. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The trouble was with the governors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I ask your pardons, Governors,' replied the ghost, as before, 'but probable you was not aware your door stood open. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I then put up a long shaft, connecting all the governors together, and thought this would certainly cure the trouble; but it didn't. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Besides which, I think the wine of them two Governors was--I will not say a hocussed wine, but fur from a wine as was elthy for the mind. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now there are occasions on which the governors and the governed meet together,--at festivals, on a journey, voyaging or fighting. Plato. The Republic.
- I ask your pardons, Governors,' replied the ghost, in a hoarse double-barrelled whisper, 'but might either on you be Lawyer Lightwood? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now, I'm blest if I understand you, Governors Both,' said the informer, in a creeping manner: propitiating both, though only one had spoken. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- South of these stood Bambyce, with its huge temples and priestly governors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It made also governors of States, members of the cabinet, foreign ministers and other officers of high rank both in state and nation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There's two Governors, ain't there? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yes, I will,' said the man; 'and I don't deceive you, Governors. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The French noblesse chose to have the people '_sans culottes_,' and they had '_sans culotte_' governors to their hearts' content. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There is a similar irony in the argument that the governors of mankind do not like being in office, and that therefore they demand pay. Plato. The Republic.
- The keepers of those houses or castles might be considered as a sort of military governors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Out of a tumultuous medley appeared the common theme of public opinion--that the leaders should lead, that the governors should govern. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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