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chaplin
/ˈt͡ʃæplɪn/
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What does chaplin mean?
noun
- Any of a class of bacterial proteins that form fibrils instead of a coiled structure.
proper noun
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- A town in Windham County, Connecticut.
More meanings (5)
proper noun
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
- A community in Halifax regional municipality, Nova Scotia.
- A rural municipality in south-central Saskatchewan; in full, the Rural Municipality of Chaplin No. 164.
- A village in the Rural Municipality of Chaplin, Saskatchewan
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈt͡ʃæplɪn/
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Sir Robert Chaplin and Mr. Eyles, attending in their places four days afterwards, were also expelled the House.
"There, but for the Grace of God, goes ----" Because the phrase might as well be used in contemplation of John D. Rockefeller or Augustus John or Charlie Chaplin or a man with a wooden leg.
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The orator has more admirers than the thinker, and this is the curse of politics; the executive has more admirers than the research worker, and this is the bane of industry; the entertainer is more admired than the educator, and that is why Charlie Chaplin makes a million a year and President Eliot received only a few thousand.
Not even Helen had ever been permitted to read it; and she had shrewdly judged that it was not in her line, for though she knew perfectly well where he kept it (together with his life insurance policy, some Liberty Bonds, an autograph letter from Charles Spencer Chaplin, and a snapshot of herself taken on their honeymoon) she had never made any attempt to examine it.