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Klein   /klaɪn/   Listen
Klein

noun
1.
German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925).  Synonym: Felix Klein.
2.
United States psychoanalyst (born in Austria) who was the first to specialize in the psychoanalysis of small children (1882-1960).  Synonym: Melanie Klein.
3.
United States fashion designer noted for understated fashions (born in 1942).  Synonyms: Calvin Klein, Calvin Richard Klein.



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"Klein" Quotes from Famous Books



... a pleasant journey, and the train arrived on time at the Klein-Tantow station, from which a turnpike led to Kessin, ten miles away. In the summer time, especially during the tourist season, travelers were accustomed to avoid the turnpike and take the water route, going by an old sidewheel steamer down the Kessine, the river from which Kessin derived its ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... bad, and only two companies reached Schoonora that night. The remainder of the battalion, which was rear-guard to the column, bivouacked with the baggage three miles out of camp near a branch of the Klein Oliphants River, and joined up with the column next morning. The following day Mooiplaats was reached, when a large number of cattle and ...
— The Record of a Regiment of the Line • M. Jacson

... commander Wollebrand Geleynszoon De Jongh and skipper Pieter Dircksz, on her voyage from the Netherlands to the East Indies (1635) XXV. New discoveries on the North-coast of Australia, by the ships Klein-Amsterdam and Wesel, commanded by (Gerrit Thomaszoon Pool and) Pieter Pieterszoon (1636) XXVI. Discovery of Tasmania (Van Diemensland), New Zealand (Statenland), islands of the Tonga- and Fiji-groups, etc. by the ships Heemskerk and de Zeehaen, under the command of Abel Janszoon Tasman, Frans ...
— The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 • J. E. Heeres

... A story of American Life. By Charles Klein, and Arthur Hornblow. With illustrations by Stuart Travis, ...
— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan

... his buckwheat on promise of pay in paper dollars, and we milled it and barreled it, and made a deposit in Klein's sugar-bush. ...
— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... recommendation to the librarian, M. KLEIN, I delivered it to the porter—and in a few seconds observed two short monks uncovered, advancing towards me. M. Klein spoke French—after a certain fashion—which however made us understand one another well enough; and on walking along the cloisters, he took me by the arm to conduct me to ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... being all right again, I thought it high time to push on to Kronstadt, which is nearly ninety miles from Herrmannstadt by road. There is railway communication, but not direct; you have to get on the main line at the junction of Klein Koepisch—in Hungarian, Kis Kapus—and hence to Kronstadt, called Brasso by the non-Germans. This confusion of names is very difficult for a foreigner when consulting the railway tables. I have often seen the names ...
— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse

... Geburt des Mensehen. Berlin 1830. Klein ber Irrtum bei Kindesmord, Harles Jahrbuch, Vol. 3. Burdach Gerichtsrtztliche Arbeiten. ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... the shore. One detachment lay in some rifle-pits by the mouth of the Fuisa. They were commanded by Seumanu; and with his party, probably as the most contiguous to Apia, was the war-correspondent, John Klein. Of English birth, but naturalised American, this gentleman had been for some time representing the New York World in a very effective manner, always in the front, living in the field with the Samoans, and in all vicissitudes of weather, toiling to and ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... of the Cunarder's destruction were some of the best known personages of the Western Hemisphere. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, multimillionaire; Charles Frohman, noted theatrical manager; Charles Klein, dramatist, who wrote "The Lion and the Mouse;" Justus Miles Forman, author, and Elbert Hubbard, known as Fra Elbertus, widely read ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish

... Thaewitzer, the Hamburgh consul, where I live, very agreeably, but do not much advance the object which brought me here. I shall, in the course of the month, undertake a short journey with some Dutch boers to Klein Williams; and I fear that this will form the beginning and the end of my travels ...
— A Woman's Journey Round the World • Ida Pfeiffer



Words linked to "Klein" :   couturier, fashion designer, Klein bottle, mathematician, designer, clothes designer, psychoanalyst, analyst, Calvin Richard Klein, Calvin Klein



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