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COLLABORATOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest
Example:
sexual partners
Synonyms:
collaborator; cooperator; pardner; partner
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("collaborator" is a kind of...):
associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collaborator"):
bridge partner (one of a pair of bridge players who are on the same side of the game)
dancing partner (one of a pair of people who dance together)
Derivation:
collaborate (work together on a common enterprise of project)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
Synonyms:
collaborationist; collaborator; quisling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("collaborator" is a kind of...):
traitor; treasonist (someone who betrays his country by committing treason)
Derivation:
collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Someone who assists in a plot
Synonyms:
collaborator; confederate; henchman; partner in crime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("collaborator" is a kind of...):
accessary; accessory (someone who helps another person commit a crime)
Context examples:
Researchers from the Cambridge Graphene Centre, together with industrial and academic collaborators within the European Graphene Flagship project, showed that integrated graphene-based photonic devices offer a solution for the next generation of optical communications.
(Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications, University of Cambridge)
Pine Island Glacier is one of the most inhospitable and remote areas of Antarctica, so to get all the equipment needed to hot-water drill through the ice shelf required a major effort from our collaborators at the U.S. Antarctic Program, said James Smith, a marine geologist with BAS.
(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)
It is remarkable only for the fact that amid a perfect jungle of possibilities we, with our worthy collaborator, the inspector, have kept our close hold on the essentials and so been guided along the crooked and winding path.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Features of the IRA program include the following: Only Principal Investigators (PIs) are eligible to receive an IRA, although scientific collaborators may include non-PIs; Priority will be given to collaborative projects that are innovative and have potential for significant scientific or public health impact, including development of resources to facilitate population-based research (e.g., creation of a novel database or research model).
(Intramural Research Award, NCI Thesaurus)
With assistance from collaborators at Tennessee State University and in Geneva, Switzerland, they were able to measure the star around which the planet orbits to gain a clearer picture of whether life could exist there.
(Searching for Life on Wolf 1061 Exoplanet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Dr. Lo and his collaborators at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai also studied human beta cells in their laboratories and determined that adipsin activates a molecule called C3a, which protects and supports beta cell function.
(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Investigators at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, and their collaborators discovered a subtype of T cell (link is external)s—called T follicular helper cell 13, or Tfh13 cells — in laboratory mice bred to have a rare genetic immune disease called DOCK8 immunodeficiency syndrome.
(Scientists discover immune cell subtype in mice that drives allergic reactions, National Institutes of Health)
About 10 percent of all kids ages 2 to 17 with asthma might have avoided the illness by maintaining a healthy weight, according to researchers at Duke University and collaborators with the National Pediatric Learning Health System (PEDSnet).
(Obesity May Be to Blame for Quarter of Asthma Cases in Children, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Now researchers at Georgia Tech and their collaborators are investigating the shape with an eye toward leveraging its structural properties, hoping to find ways to harness its bistability to build multifunctional devices or metamaterials.
(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)
Improved pest resistance and drought tolerance are among potential benefits of an international effort in which Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their collaborators have produced the clearest picture yet of the complex genomic history of the cultivated peanut.
(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
