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Hale, George E(llery) (sh) and squat(4) (iou)


Hale, George E(llery) (sh)




born June 29, 1868, Chicago, Ill.
died Feb. 21, 1938, Pasadena, Calif., U.S.

U.S. astronomer.

He studied at Harvard and in Berlin. In 1888 he organized the Kenwood Observatory in Chicago. In 1892 he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago and began organizing the Yerkes Observatory, of which he was director until 1904; there he built the 40-in. (1-m) refracting telescope that remains the largest of its type in the world. He established the Astrophysical Journal in 1895. In 1904 he organized the Mount Wilson Observatory and was its director until 1923. There he built solar apparatus of great power as well as the huge 60-in. (1.5-m) and 100-in. (2.5-m) reflecting telescopes. In 1928 he began work on a 200-in. (5-m) reflecting telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory; completed in 1948, it was named in his honour. As a researcher, he is known particularly for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots.


squat(4) (iou)



squat verb. Infl. -tt-. Pa. t. & pple squatted, squat. ME.
[Old French esquatir, -ter, from es- EX-1 + quatir press down, crouch, hide, from Proto-Romance verb from Latin coactus pa. pple of cogere: see COGENT. See also SWAT verb2.]
I.
verb trans. Dash down or thrust violently or with some force. Long obsolete exc. dial. ME.
verb trans. Crush, flatten, or beat out of shape; smash, squash; bruise severely. Now dial. LME.
verb intrans. Fall violently. LME-L16.
II.
verb intrans. & refl. Of a person: sit with the hams resting on the backs of the heels, or with the knees drawn up and the heels close to or touching the hams; esp. sit on the ground in this way; colloq. sit (down). Also foll. by down. LME.
b. verb intrans. Of an animal: crouch close to the ground, esp. to avoid observation or capture. LME.
c. verb trans. Lower in the act of squatting. Also, (of an animal) let (the tail) droop or fall. E18.
d. verb intrans. & trans. Weightlifting. Perform a squat while holding (a weight). M20.
verb trans. Cause to squat; put into a squatting posture. rare. E17.
verb intrans.
a. Sink in or down. Now rare. M17.
b. (Of a vessel) settle lower in the water at the stern when at speed; (of a motor vehicle) undergo a lowering of the rear when travelling at speed. M20.
verb intrans. Settle on new, uncultivated, or unoccupied land without any legal title and without the payment of rent; live without legal right on land or in premises otherwise unoccupied; live as a squatter. E19.
S. Townsend He was still squatting in the old tyre factory.
b. verb intrans. Take up government land for pasturage as a squatter. Austral. E19.
c. verb trans. Install (a person) as a squatter; occupy as a squatter. L20.
squattage noun (a) a property occupied by a squatter; (b) the occupation of property by squatting: M19.
squa'ttocracy noun (Austral. History) the class of squatters as a body possessing social and political importance M19.