[bish-uh
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noun, verb, -oped, -op⋅ing.| 1. | a person who supervises a number of local churches or a diocese, being in the Greek, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other churches a member of the highest order of the ministry. |
| 2. | a spiritual supervisor, overseer, or the like. |
| 3. | Chess. one of two pieces of the same color that may be moved any unobstructed distance diagonally, one on white squares and the other on black. |
| 4. | a hot drink made of port wine, oranges, cloves, etc. |
| 5. | Also called bishop bird. any of several colorful African weaverbirds of the genus Euplectes, often kept as pets. |
| 6. | to appoint to the office of bishop. |
Bishop Bish·op (bĭsh'əp), J. Michael. Born 1936.
American microbiologist. He shared a 1989 Nobel Prize for discovering a sequence of genes that can cause cancer when mutated.
| Bishop (bĭsh'əp) Pronunciation Key
American molecular biologist who, working with Harold Varmus, discovered oncogenes. For this work, Bishop and Varmus shared the 1989 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. |