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SEQUESTER

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set apart from others

Example:

The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on

Synonyms:

isolate; keep apart; sequester; sequestrate; set apart

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Keep away from others

Example:

He sequestered himself in his study to write a book

Synonyms:

seclude; sequester; sequestrate; withdraw

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

insulate; isolate (place or set apart)

Verb group:

adjourn; retire; withdraw (break from a meeting or gathering)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sequester"):

lose (withdraw, as from reality)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

sequestration (the act of segregating or sequestering)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion

Example:

The cations were sequestered

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

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

Derivation:

sequestration (the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

Example:

The police confiscated the stolen artwork

Synonyms:

attach; confiscate; impound; seize; sequester

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

take (take into one's possession)

Verb group:

sequester (requisition forcibly, as of enemy property)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sequester"):

condemn (appropriate (property) for public use)

garnish; garnishee (take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support)

distrain (confiscate by distress)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sequestration (seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Requisition forcibly, as of enemy property

Example:

the estate was sequestered

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

take (take into one's possession)

Verb group:

attach; confiscate; impound; seize; sequester (take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Rock-derived nitrogen may fuel the growth of forests and grasslands, and allow them to sequester more carbon dioxide than previously thought.

(New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth’s bedrock, National Science Foundation)

Fragmentation changes how ecosystems function, reduces the amounts of nutrients retained and the amount of carbon sequestered and has other deleterious effects.

(Shrinking habitats have adverse effects on world ecosystems, NSF)

Briefly, sequence-specific probes are hybridized to cells fixed on slides and the sequestered probe is visualized by a peroxidase reaction.

(Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization, NCI Thesaurus)

Forests in the eastern United States that are structurally complex — the arrangement of vegetation is varied throughout the physical space — sequester more carbon, according to a new study.

(Structural complexity in forests improves carbon capture, National Science Foundation)

Phosphoric acid is a sequestering agent which binds many divalent cations, including Fe++, Cu++, Ca++, and Mg++.

(Phosphoric acid, NCI Thesaurus)

They loved their sequestered home.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Overweight/obese blacks are at increased risk for vitamin D deficiency because darker skin absorbs less sunlight — the skin makes vitamin D in response to sun exposure — and fat tends to sequester vitamin D for no apparent purpose.

(High Doses of Vitamin D Rapidly Reduce Arterial Stiffness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To more accurately predict the capacity of trees and plants to sequester carbon dioxide in the future, the researchers synthesized data from all elevated carbon dioxide experiments conducted so far—in grassland, shrubland, cropland and forest systems—including ones the researchers directed.

(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The research showed that while concentrations of black carbon aerosols near the surface of the valley floor are low, locally produced black carbon may stay sequestered in the upper layers of soils near field camps until it is disturbed and distributed by high winds, including the so-called Foehn wind event, a warm southerly wind that occurred during the study period.

(Soot transported from elsewhere in world contributes little to melting of some Antarctic glaciers, National Science Foundation)

Burdened with the guilty consciousness of the sequestered tarts, and fearing that Dodo's sharp eyes would pierce the thin disguise of cambric and merino which hid their booty, the little sinners attached themselves to 'Dranpa', who hadn't his spectacles on.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)