Sentence examples for professor means from inspiring English sources

Being a literature professor means, in effect, the government pays me to read books; and, taking my job seriously, I read a lot, in and out of genre.

Reminding us that "professor" means someone professing a faith, Delbanco exhorts us to keep the etymology alive: "Surely this meaning is one to which we would still wish to lay claim, since the true teacher must always be a professor in the root sense of the word — a person undaunted by the incremental fatigue of repetitive work, who remains ardent, even fanatic, in the service of his calling".

(Recall David Hyde Pierce's line in Wet Hot American Summer when a kid asks him what Associate Professor means. Pierce pauses sadly, then says, "It means … less than").

This is usually what your professor means by "textual evidence".

His slate not surprisingly seemed ill-suited to govern Yahoo for the long-term, but the inclusion of Lucian Bebchuk, the Harvard professor, meant that a short-term flip would require some hard thinking and diligence by any new board.

Once, being a professor meant (among other things) possessing, by dint of years immersed in library mine-shafts, refinements on knowledge that were effectively inaccessible to the unlearned person.

Saying he'd been God-damned grateful to be accepted into the seminar with a world-famous professor, meant so much to him he'd (almost) gotten down on his knees and gave thanks—like you'd reached out and touched his bare, beating heart.

Getting better, to Miller and many other professors, means getting more selective.

More tuba professors meant more tuba students.

By "practical wisdom," the authors, a pair of Swarthmore College professors, mean applied or situational wisdom, which might have made better titles.

4. Cf.: "In the second place it is clear what those professors mean who say that there are three sorts of universals, namely, before the individual thing, as an idea, in the thing, as a form communicated to many things, and after the thing, as the species or sign of the former".