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bacon |?b?k?n|
noun
cured meat from the back or sides of a pig.
PHRASES
bring home the bacon informal 1 supply material provision or support; earn a living. 2 achieve success.
save someone's bacon see save 1 .
ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French, from a Germanic word meaning ‘ham, flitch’ ; related to back .
Bacon 1 |?b?k?n|
Bacon, Francis, Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans (1561–1626), English statesman and philosopher. As a scientist he advocated the inductive method. Notable works: The Advancement of Learning (1605) and Novum Organum (1620).
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Bacon, Francis (1909–92), Irish painter. His work chiefly depicts human figures in grotesquely distorted postures, their features blurred or erased.
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Bacon, Roger ( c. 1214–94), English philosopher, scientist, and Franciscan monk. Most notable for his work in the field of optics, he emphasized the need for an empirical approach to scientific study.
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