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ENROL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: enrolled    , enrolling   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Register formally as a participant or member

Example:

The party recruited many new members

Synonyms:

enrol; enroll; enter; inscribe; recruit

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)

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

draft; enlist; muster in (engage somebody to enter the army)

unionise; unionize (recruit for a union or organize into a union)

register (enroll to vote)

matriculate (enroll as a student)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

enrolment (the act of enrolling)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A number of subjects that have been enrolled for the participation in a clinical study at a given point in time.

(Clinical Study Actual Accrual Number, NCI Thesaurus)

A number of subjects that have been enrolled for the participation in a study at a given specified point in time (including all ever-enrolled subjects).

(Actual Accrual, NCI Thesaurus)

The team enrolled more than 1,000 ethnically diverse women (75% minority) who were diagnosed with gestational diabetes.

(Breastfeeding may help prevent type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes, NIH)

Their world-first trial has produced promising results for the majority of patients enrolled, they said, including a reduction in fatigue and improvements in mobility and vision.

(Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Developed in Australia Shows Promise, VOA)

The team enrolled 400 infants in eastern Uganda.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

But already we have enrolled certain retainers who may play no small part in what is to come.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Investigators at Stanford University enrolled 120 people aged 7 to 55 with diagnosed peanut allergy in the Peanut Oral Immunotherapy Study: Safety Efficacy and Discovery, or POISED.

(Few people with peanut allergy tolerate peanut after stopping oral immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)

The team sequenced over 18,000 genes from participants of European or African ancestry who were enrolled in 7 large studies, including the Framing­ham Heart Study and the Women’s Health Initiative.

(Rare mutations reduce heart disease risk, NIH)

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine enrolled 48 participants aged 4 to 15 years with confirmed allergy to multiple foods, including milk, egg, wheat, soy, sesame seeds, peanut or tree nuts.

(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)

None of the participants had high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, or cancer when they enrolled, but 37,123 people developed high blood pressure during an average follow-up of 12-16 years.

(High Temp Grilled Meat May Raise Blood Pressure, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)