conjugate
adjective
, -jə-ˌgāt\
Definition of conjugate
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conjugate
verb
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Definition of conjugate (Entry 2 of 3)
conjugate
noun
, -jə-ˌgāt\
Definition of conjugate (Entry 3 of 3)
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Synonyms & Antonyms for conjugate
Synonyms: Verb
associate, coalesce, combine, conjoin, connect, couple, fuse, interfuse, join, link (up), marry, unify, unite
Antonyms: Verb
break up, dissever, part, section, separate, sever, split, sunder, unlink
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Examples of conjugate in a Sentence
Verb
Can you conjugate the verb “to go”? biological cells conjugating under a microscopeRecent Examples on the Web: Adjective
There are two meningococcal vaccines: meningococcal conjugate vaccines (MenACWY) and serogroup B meningococcal vaccines (MenB). — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, "Here Are All the Vaccines You Actually Need as an Adult," 26 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Authentic versions possess more nutrients than the alternative, particularly more vitamin A, D and K2, as well as five times the beneficial fatty acid CLA (conjugated linoleic acid). — Lucinda Scala Quinn, Washington Post, "How to put fancy, high-fat butter to its best use," 21 June 2019 One of the distinguishing fats is conjugated linoleic acid or CLA, which some regard as the clearest indicator of grass-feeding. — Peter Whoriskey, kansascity.com, "Why your milk may not be truly organic," 8 May 2017 Those mind-numbing exercises in high school—factoring polynomials, conjugating verbs, memorizing the periodic table—were possibly the opposite: mind-sensitizing. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, "A.I. versus M.D.," 23 Mar. 2017 For many, decoding Trump is like conjugating irregular verbs in Latin. — William D. Cohan, The Hive, "Wall Street Is Sick of Trump’s Act," 16 May 2017Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The second is cultural: the idea that car travel conjugates American life in its healthiest and most distinctive forms. — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, "Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?," 22 July 2019 This property of conjugates helps us compute the reciprocal of any complex number. — Quanta Magazine, "The (Imaginary) Numbers at the Edge of Reality," 25 Oct. 2018 Among the itineraries will be at least 3 conjugate pairs; additionally, the number of coins in the two groups in each pair must be of different parity. — Nicholas Diaco, Scientific American, "Privacy and Counterfeit Coins," 20 Mar. 2018 Given an itinerary ∂, ‘‘conjugate itinerary’’, denoted by ∂, is the unique itinerary in which all R’s are replaced by L’s, and all L’s are replaced by R’s. — Nicholas Diaco, Scientific American, "Privacy and Counterfeit Coins," 20 Mar. 2018 The drug being tested, known as SC-007, is a type of antibody-drug conjugate, designed to home in on malignant cells while sparing healthy tissues. — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, "Another drug acquired from Peter Thiel-backed biotech appears to have flopped," 30 Apr. 2018 AChE conjugate—if military labs were willing to share samples. — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, "U.K. attack shines spotlight on deadly nerve agent developed by Soviet scientists," 19 Mar. 2018 This means that the fake coins have conjugate itineraries. Because of the aforementioned condition, if there exists a coin with an itinerary ∂ and there are no coins with itinerary , then all the coins in ∂ are necessarily real. — Nicholas Diaco, Scientific American, "Privacy and Counterfeit Coins," 20 Mar. 2018 Now, students entering the 12th grade must receive a second dose of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine, or MCV, to protect against meningitis. — Rita Giordano, Philly.com, "New Pa. health rule: Get your kids vaccinated or they can't go to school," 8 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'conjugate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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