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ACTIVATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(military) set up and placed on active assignment
Example:
a newly activated unit
Classified under:
Similar:
active (engaged in full-time work)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive
Classified under:
Similar:
active (exerting influence or producing a change or effect)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive
Synonyms:
activated; excited
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
reactive (participating readily in reactions)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
treated (subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb activate
Context examples:
This part of your chart, so activated by Mars, also rules humanitarian causes and charities, so you may be involved in working for a cause you believe in.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A measurement of the resistance in the anticoagulation response to activated protein C in a biological specimen.
(Activated Protein C Resistance Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)
A cell that acts in a similar manner to a cytotoxic T cell and must be activated like a cytotoxic T cell.
(Activated Natural Killer Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
A white blood cell, differentiated in the thymus, activated by an antigen that causes the cell to preferentially migrate to the skin.
(Activated Skin-Homing T-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
Platelets adhere to exposed collagen and are activated at the site of endothelial damage in the blood vessel.
(Acute Myocardial Infarction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This allele, which encodes beta-adrenergic receptor kinase 2 protein, is involved in the phosphorylation of the activated form of the beta-adrenergic and related G-protein-coupled receptors.
(ADRBK2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes beta-adrenergic receptor kinase 1 protein, plays a role in the phosphorylation of the activated form of the beta-adrenergic and related G-protein-coupled receptors.
(ADRBK1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
An orally available small molecule mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MAP2K, MAPK/ERK kinase, or MEK) inhibitor, with potential antineoplastic activity.
(MEK Inhibitor WX-554, NCI Thesaurus)
A synthetic, fungal metabolite analogue inhibitor of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1 (MEK-1) and mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 1 (MEKK-1) with potential antipsoriatic and antineoplastic activities.
(MEK-1/MEKK-1 Inhibitor E6201, NCI Thesaurus)
Bax, another Bcl-2 family member, is activated by this pathway to localize to the mitochondrial membrane and increase its permeability, releasing cytochrome c and other mitochondrial proteins.
(Mitochondria in Apoptotic Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
