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HOUSEKEEPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The work of cleaning and running a house
Synonyms:
housekeeping; housework
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("housekeeping" is a kind of...):
work (activity directed toward making or doing something)
Derivation:
housekeep (maintain a household; take care of all business related to a household)
Context examples:
“The sweets of housekeeping in a country village!” said Miss Crawford archly.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Elimination of the signal peptide through an alternative translation site may generate a cytosolic housekeeping protein.
(Hypoxia Up-Regulated 1 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
Following amplification of reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay, the quantified amount of the target gene divided by the quantified amount of housekeeping gene.
(Normalized Quotient, NCI Thesaurus)
The inhibition of COX-1 by this agent prevents the normal steady-state production of prostaglandins that play housekeeping roles in the protection of the gastrointestinal tract, the regulation of renal blood flow, and platelet aggregation.
(Ketorolac, NCI Thesaurus)
Since COX-1 is expressed virtually in all tissues, inhibition of COX-1 enzyme by this agent prevents normal state production of prostaglandins, which plays housekeeping roles in the protection of the gastrointestinal tract, regulating renal blood flow, and functioning in platelet aggregation.
(Ketorolac Tromethamine, NCI Thesaurus)
The Mr Musgroves had their own game to guard, and to destroy, their own horses, dogs, and newspapers to engage them, and the females were fully occupied in all the other common subjects of housekeeping, neighbours, dress, dancing, and music.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Astrocytic phagocytosis, mainly of presynaptic elements in large synapses, occurs after both acute and chronic sleep loss, but not after spontaneous wake, suggesting that it may promote the housekeeping and recycling of worn components of heavily used, strong synapses.
(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
However, he said, it's not that we haven't made a beginning towards housekeeping.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
However, the resulting “housekeeping proteins” haven’t been well understood.
(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)
Presently Jo said cheerfully, for she didn't want the coming home to be a sad one, I can't make it true that you children are really married and going to set up housekeeping.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
