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DONATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give to a charity or good cause

Example:

She donates to her favorite charity every month

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "donate" is one way to...):

gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "donate"):

pledge; subscribe (pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

donation (act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity)

donation (a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A stem cell transplant may be autologous (a patient’s own blood cells saved earlier), allogeneic (blood cells donated by someone else), or syngeneic (blood cells donated by an identical twin).

(Peripheral blood stem cell transplant, NCI Dictionary)

In tumor cells, the NO donating moiety may block the cell cycle in the G1 and G2 phases and may induce apoptosis through caspase-mediated mechanisms.

(Nitric oxide-releasing acetylsalicylic acid derivative, NCI Thesaurus)

These enzymes use molecular oxygen catalyze the donation of one oxygen atom to a substrate specific site, while the other atom is donated to the generation of water.

(Mixed Function Oxidase, NCI Thesaurus)

There are also treatments which filter abnormal antibodies from the blood or add healthy antibodies from donated blood.

(Myasthenia Gravis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Traditionally, minor surgery to draw marrow from the hipbones followed by collection of the stems cells from the donated marrow.

(Bone Marrow Donation, NCI Thesaurus)

In some cases, you can donate your own bone marrow stem cells in advance.

(Bone Marrow Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Next, the researchers implanted silicon ions into the diamond, and then heated the diamonds to high temperatures to remove other impurities that could also donate charges.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They then underwent a stem cell transplant, receiving cells donated by a healthy brother or sister.

(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh examined donated ovarian tissue from fourteen female cancer patients, most of whom had Hodgkin lymphoma, and compared it to tissue from healthy women.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)

As pointed out in the study, the brains examined for the research were donated by family members of football players who may have exhibited symptoms of chronic brain injury prior to death.

(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)