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Williamsn.1

Brit. /ˈwɪljəmz/, /ˈwɪlɪəmz/, U.S. /ˈwɪljəmz/, /ˈwɪliəmz/
Inflections: Plural unchanged;
Forms: 1800s William's, 1800s Williams', 1800s Williams's, 1800s– William (as modifier), 1900s– Williams.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Williams.
Etymology: < the name of Richard Williams of Turnham Green (fl. 1785–1815), who sold this variety commercially.Compare:1803 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) vii. 147 73. A Seedling Pear (from Williams's Nursery at Turnham-Green), originally from Hampshire. It resembles a Summer Bonchrêtien, but is more juicy.Compare the following earlier example, where William-pears is short for Sweet-William pears (1718), a different variety.1724 P. Miller Gardeners & Florists Dict. II. at Pear-trees He recommends the following Pears as very good, and deserving to be propagated and cultivated: The little Muscat, which is the first ripe;..the William-pears, some of which will continue Part of December.
1. In the genitive or as a modifier: designating a juicy variety of the Bon Chrétien pear, which typically has golden yellow skin with a reddish blush and ripens in September. Also: the variety itself. Also called (in North America) Bartlett.
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honey peara1400
pome-pear1440
pome-wardena1513
choke-pear1530
muscadel1555
worry pear1562
lording1573
bon-chrétienc1575
Burgundian pear1578
king pear1585
pound pear1585
poppering1597
wood of Jerusalem1597
muscadine1598
amiot1600
bergamot1600
butter pear1600
dew-pear1600
greening1600
mollart1600
roset1600
wax pear1600
bottle pear1601
gourd-pear1601
Venerian pear1601
musk pear1611
rose pear1611
pusill1615
Christian1629
nutmeg1629
rolling pear1629
surreine1629
sweater1629
amber pear1638
Venus-pear1648
horse-pear1657
Martin1658
russet1658
rousselet1660
diego1664
frith-pear1664
maudlin1664
Messire Jean1664
primate1664
sovereign1664
spindle-pear1664
stopple-pear1664
sugar-pear1664
virgin1664
Windsor pear1664
violet-pear1666
nonsuch1674
muscat1675
burnt-cat1676
squash pear1676
rose1678
Longueville1681
maiden-heart1685
ambrette1686
vermilion1691
admiral1693
sanguinole1693
satin1693
St. Germain pear1693
pounder pear1697
vine-pear1704
amadot1706
marchioness1706
marquise1706
Margaret1707
short-neck1707
musk1708
burree1719
marquis1728
union pear1728
Doyenne pear1731
Magdalene1731
beurré1736
colmar1736
Monsieur Jean1736
muscadella1736
swan's egg1736
chaumontel1755
St Michael's pear1796
Williams1807
Marie Louise1817
seckel1817
Bartlett1828
vergaloo1828
Passe Colmar1837
glou-morceau1859
London sugar1860
snow-pear1860
Comice1866
Kieffer pear1880
sand pear1880
sandy pear1884
snowy pear1884
1807 ‘A. McDonald’ Compl. Dict. Pract. Gardening at Pyrus The Williams's Seedling Pear, which resembles a Summer Bonchrêtien, but is more juicy, is a great bearer, and ripens in September.
1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. 690 Useful and profitable orchard Pears... Williams's Bon Chretien.
1884 Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 11/1 The..juicy flavour of the famous William Bon Chrétien now in all the shops.
1903 Proc. 2nd Ann. Meeting (N.Y. State Fruit Growers' Assoc.) 144 The principal French varieties are Williams, Duchess, Buerre Hardy and Glou Morceau.
1978 G. E. Russell Plant Breeding for Dis. & Pest Resistance vii. 206 Varietal differences in the resistance of pears to pear decline have been reported.., Williams and Red Bartlett being badly damaged by the disease.
2017 @Haggewoods 20 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Feb. 2021) I wouldn't swear to it, but it looks like Williams Bon Chretien pear, in your garden? A cultivar of Pyrus communis.
2. A pear of this variety. Also as a modifier.
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1871 Florist & Pomologist Nov. 251 The arrivals of early William Pears (Williams' Bon Chrétien)..have been..superabundant, and the fruit remarkably fine, even to the matter of flavour.
1941 H. J. Massingham Fall of Year ii. 109 I have a range of cordon pears that take six months for the picking, and if Williams are picked after the middle of September, even the pigs will leave them till the last.
1973 Times 9 Nov. 4/7 Some pear prices are down..although..Williams are still 15p.
2012 Gay Times May 121/3 How about seared, locally-shot venison loin with pea puree followed by poached William pear with hazelnut brittle, toffee and vanilla custard.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Williamsn.2

Brit. /ˈwɪljəmz/, /ˈwɪlɪəmz/, U.S. /ˈwɪljəmz/, /ˈwɪliəmz/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Williams.
Etymology: < the name of F. C. Williams (1911–77), English electrical engineer, who with T. Kilburn described such a tube in 1948.
Computing (now historical).
As a modifier. Designating a cathode-ray tube used in some early computers to store an array of spots representing bits; (also) designating or relating to computer memory based on such tubes. Esp. in Williams tube.The Williams tube was the first practical kilobit random-access storage device.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > cathode-ray tube
selectron1947
Williams tube1950
1950 W. W. Stifler High-speed Computing Devices (Engin. Res. Associates) x. 202 The proposed machine will have an electrostatic storage system consisting of a bank of Williams tubes.
1953 National Bureau of Standards Techn. News Bull. (U.S. Dept. Commerce) Oct. 147/2 This makes it possible for the calculator to use fully the speed of the Williams-tube memory, doing complete arithmetic operations in a few microseconds.
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing x. 150 The Williams memory had many weaknesses but until the middle fifties it was the only available memory in the microsecond class apart from the expensive flip-flop registers.
1975 R. Malik And Tomorrow..the World iii. 55 By then they had dropped the Williams storage and its regenerative memory and switched to core memory.
2001 Australian (Nexis) 30 Jan. 49 What became known as the Williams Tube was ready to form the nucleus of a digital computer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Williamsn.3

Brit. /ˈwɪljəmz/, /ˈwɪlɪəmz/, U.S. /ˈwɪljəmz/, /ˈwɪliəmz/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Williams.
Etymology: < the name of John Cyprian Phipps Williams (b. 1922), New Zealand physician, who (with B. G. Barratt-Boyes and J. B. Lowe) described the syndrome in 1961 ( Circulation 24 1311).
Medicine.
As a modifier, esp. in Williams syndrome, Williams elfin facies syndrome. Designating a congenital condition characterized by distinctive facial characteristics, some degree of intellectual disability, vascular abnormalities, esp. narrowing of the aorta above the aortic valve, and often hypercalcaemia.Williams syndrome results from deletion of a small part of one copy of chromosome 7, including the elastin gene.
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1967 L. Turano et al. Progress Radiol. Internat. Congr. Series No. 105 I. 153 Two of the 4 cases in the series with supravalvular aortic stenosis had multiple peripheral stenotic lesions of the pulmonary arteries, one with a complete Williams syndrome.
1975 Jrnl. Pediatrics 86 718/1 The purpose of the present report is to present a balanced evaluation of 19 patients with the Williams elfin facies Syndrome (Williams syndrome).
1997 Independent on Sunday 11 May (Review Suppl.) 48/1 In addition to language skills, Williams syndrome children are sociable, with great awareness of body language and emotions.
2019 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 24 Sept. 18 Deborah discovered the rare condition of Williams syndrome, which matched a lot of Martha's traits and was later confirmed by a geneticist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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