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LIGATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bind with a bandage or ligature

Example:

ligate the artery

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

bandage (dress by covering or binding)

Domain category:

surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

ligation ((surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery))

ligature (the act of tying or binding things together)

ligature (thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bind chemically

Example:

The enzyme ligated

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

bind (form a chemical bond with)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Join letters in a ligature when writing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

join (cause to become joined or linked)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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