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PARTICIPANT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who takes part in an activity

Example:

he was a major player in setting up the corporation

Synonyms:

participant; player

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("participant" is a kind of...):

associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "participant"):

attendant; attendee; attender; meeter (a person who is present and participates in a meeting)

discussant (a participant in a formal discussion)

bride (a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony)

bridegroom; groom (a man participant in his own marriage ceremony)

masker; masquer; masquerader (a participant in a masquerade)

partaker; sharer (someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share)

retreatant (a participant in a religious retreat)

Derivation:

participate (become a participant; be involved in)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who participates in or is skilled at some game

Synonyms:

participant; player

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("participant" is a kind of...):

contestant (a person who participates in competitions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "participant"):

most valuable player; MVP (the player judged to be the most important to the sport)

playmaker (a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score)

pool player (someone who shoots pool)

scorer (a player who makes a score in a game or contest)

seed; seeded player (one of the outstanding players in a tournament)

server ((court games) the player who serves to start a point)

shooter ((sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket))

soccer player (an athlete who plays soccer)

stringer (a member of a squad on a team)

tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)

volleyball player (someone who plays the game of volleyball)

lacrosse player (an athlete who plays lacrosse)

hockey player; ice-hockey player (an athlete who plays hockey)

grandmaster (a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge)

golf player; golfer; linksman (someone who plays the game of golf)

football player; footballer (an athlete who plays American football)

dart player (someone who plays the game of darts)

chess player (someone who plays the game of chess)

card player (someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games)

bowler (a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins)

billiard player (someone who plays billiards)

ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A coded value specifying the countries from which participants will be, are intended to be, or have been recruited for an activity.

(Participating Country Code, NCI Thesaurus)

The research focuses on 14 previous studies based on six different groups of participants, totalling more than 230,000 people who were followed over periods ranging between 5.5‌ ‌and‌ ‌35‌ ‌years.‌

(Reduce Risk of Early Death with Any Amount of Running, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The intended quantity of female participants.

(Planned Number of Female Subjects, NCI Thesaurus)

In medicine, a study or clinical trial in which participants are identified and then followed forward in time.

(Longitudinal Study, NCI Dictionary)

Participants were randomly assigned to receive omalizumab or placebo injections for the first 16 weeks of the study.

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

Participants may choose which group they want to be in, or they may be assigned to the groups by the researchers.

(Nonrandomized clinical trial, NCI Dictionary)

The participant is neither a true case or true control for the phenotype under consideration.

(Neither Case or Control Status, NCI Thesaurus)

Studies among cancer patients and healthy populations that involve no intervention or alteration in the status of the participants.

(Observational study, NCI Thesaurus)

A visit by a patient or study participant to a medical professional.

(Patient Visit, NCI Thesaurus)

Participants are assigned to one of two or more arms in parallel for the duration of the study.

(Parallel Study, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)