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Sherlock definition

shûrlŏk
A detective.
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An earlier Macintosh utility starting with Version 8.5 of the operating system that provided a common facility for searching the local hard disk, the local network and the Internet. Sherlock was replaced with Spotlight in Mac OS X Tiger.
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Origin of sherlock

  • After Sherlock Holmes, detective in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sherlock Sentence Examples

  • Thomas Sherlock declared that " Mr Law was a writer so considerable that he knew but one good reason why his lordship did not answer him."

  • Thus it was Bentley versus Collins, Sherlock versus Woolston, Law versus Tindal.

  • Amongst those who replied to him were Richard Bentley, Edward Chandler, bishop of Lichfield, and Thomas Sherlock, afterwards bishop of London, who also attacked Woolston.

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