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INCORPORATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Introduced into as a part of the whole
Example:
the ideas incorporated in his revised manuscript
Classified under:
Similar:
integrated (formed into a whole or introduced into another entity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Organized and maintained as a legal corporation
Example:
an incorporated town
Synonyms:
corporate; incorporated
Classified under:
Similar:
organized (formed into a structured or coherent whole, particularly on a large scale)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Formed or united into a whole
Synonyms:
incorporate; incorporated; integrated; merged; unified
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
united (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb incorporate
Context examples:
The L-form of Phenylalanine is incorporated into proteins, while the D-form acts as a painkiller.
(Phenylalanine, NCI Thesaurus)
All things therefore seemed to point to this; that I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
An organic compound that has sulfur incorporated into its structure and exposure to this compound can increase the risk of human cancer.
(Organo-sulfur Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)
A paclitaxel formulation containing paclitaxel incorporated in biodegradable polyphosphoester (PPE) polymer form with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Paclitaxel PPE Microspheres, NCI Thesaurus)
An organic carcinogen having a C-N bond incorporated in its structure.
(Organo-nitrogen Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)
A hydrocarbon compound consisting of carbons with one or more fluoride atom incorporated in its structure that can increase the risk of human cancer.
(Carcinogenic Fluorinated Hydrocarbon, NCI Thesaurus)
Triphosphate cordycepin can be incorporated into RNA, and inhibits transcription elongation and RNA synthesis due to the absence of a hydroxyl moiety at the 3' position.
(Cordycepin, NCI Thesaurus)
Amino acids in the diet have one of two fates - either they are incorporated into proteins or they are broken down for energy and metabolic intermediates.
(Catabolic Pathways for Alanine, Glycine, Serine, Cysteine, Tryptophan, and Threonine, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Into his snarl he incorporated all that was vicious, malignant, and horrible.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Any DNA sequence rearrangement in which double-stranded DNA from a donor molecule is incorporated into host DNA by the action of an integrase, yielding a single, stable, replication-competent, double-stranded DNA product.
(DNA Integration, NCI Thesaurus)
