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How to pronounce whitney
IPA transcription: ['wɪtni]
Pronunciation variants: ['wɪtni][h'wɪtni]
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Noun
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United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)
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the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high)
Usage examples
- Chauncey Whitney, a deputy to Kingsbury, took over following Sheriff Kingsbury's departure.
- Her brother was John Hay Whitney.
- Vanderbilt lost custody of her daughter to her sister-in-law Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
- Other members of the corporation included Boeing, United Airlines, Sikorsky, and Pratt and Whitney.
- United Aircraft entered both industries, via Pratt and Whitney and Sikorsky, respectively.
- book spot for victoria mendoza and whitney mendoza at a pub in Callicoon in fifteen hours
- Henry Austin Whitney was the president of the railroad at the time.
- "Whitney Field" polo field near Saratoga Springs, New York is named for him.
- Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasp Junior.
- The famous Whitney family owned property by the mill and built a mansion.