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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
Example:
on business in a foreign city
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
adventive (not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized)
alien; exotic (being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
nonnative (of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing)
established; naturalized (introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation)
foreign-born; nonnative (of persons born in another area or country than that lived in)
imported (used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source)
tramontane (being or coming from another country)
unnaturalised; unnaturalized (not having acquired citizenship)
Attribute:
strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)
curiousness; foreignness; strangeness (the quality of being alien or not native)
Antonym:
native (characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
Example:
a foreign office
Classified under:
Similar:
abroad; overseas (in a foreign country)
external; international; outside (from or between other countries)
Also:
international (concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations)
Antonym:
domestic (of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
Example:
jealousy is foreign to her nature
Synonyms:
alien; foreign
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
extrinsic (not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside)
Derivation:
foreignness (the quality of being alien or not native)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
Example:
foreign particles in milk
Synonyms:
extraneous; foreign
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
adulterant; adulterating (making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials)
Context examples:
A key part of the immune system is the production of immunoglobulins (antibodies) by B cells to bind and inactivate specific foreign antigens.
(Antigen Dependent B Cell Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
An antitumor response involves destruction of cancer tumor cells primarily by activated T-cells induced to react to antigens recognized as foreign and expressed by the transformed cells.
(Antitumor Response, NCI Thesaurus)
The blocking of an artery by a clot of foreign material.
(Arterial embolization, NCI Dictionary)
The event of providing fragments of foreign proteins, including viruses and bacteria, to the helper T cells.
(Antigen Presentation, NCI Thesaurus)
A condition in which the body recognizes its own tissues as foreign and directs an immune response against them.
(Autoimmune disease, NCI Dictionary)
A type of immune cell that makes proteins called antibodies, which bind to microorganisms and other foreign substances, and help fight infections.
(B-Lymphocyte, NCI Dictionary)
It may follow inhalation of irritating gases or foreign bodies and it complicates pneumonia.
(Bronchiolitis obliterans, NCI Thesaurus)
They produce and secrete millions of different antibody molecules, each of which recognizes a different (foreign) antigen.
(B Cell Receptor Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
The researchers found that there are many areas of the genome that define each species, and these are maintained by natural selection, which weeds out the foreign genes.
(Butterflies are genetically wired to choose a mate that looks just like them, University of Cambridge)
