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SERRATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex

Synonyms:

notched; saw-toothed; serrate; serrated; toothed

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

rough (of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make saw-toothed or jag the edge of

Example:

serrate the edges of the teeth

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

jag (cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge)

Sentence frames:

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Something ----s something

Derivation:

serration (the condition of being serrated)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Microscopically, it is characterized by elongated, serrated crypts lined by proliferative epithelium.

(Hyperplastic Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)

The group of colonic adenomas includes tubular, villous, and tubulovillous adenomas, traditional serrated adenomas, sessile serrated adenomas/polyps, and familial adenomatous polyposis.

(Colon Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The group of colorectal adenomas includes tubular, villous, and tubulovillous adenomas, traditional serrated adenomas, sessile serrated adenomas/polyps, and familial adenomatous polyposis.

(Colorectal Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This group includes adenomatous polyps, serrated polyps, and hamartomatous polyps.

(Colon polyp, NCI Thesaurus)

Histologic variants include mucinous adenocarcinoma, signet ring cell carcinoma, medullary carcinoma, serrated adenocarcinoma, cribriform comedo-type adenocarcinoma, and micropapillary adenocarcinoma.

(Cecum Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Great slate-colored backs and high serrated dorsal fins shot up with a fringe of silver, and then rolled down into the depths again.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Serrated leading-edges reduce aerodynamic performance at lower AoAs than 15° compared to clean leading-edges, but can achieve noise reduction and aerodynamic performance at AoAs above 15°, which owl wings often reach in flight.

(Owls' Wings Key to Beating Wind Turbine Noise, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is characterized by the presence of morphologic features of dysplasia (e.g., architectural and cytological epithelial alterations) or, in a minority of cases, lack of such morphologic features, as in colonic sessile serrated adenomas/polyps.

(Gastrointestinal Intraepithelial Neoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

The polyps are predominantly sessile serrated adenomas/polyps.

(Colon Serrated Polyposis, NCI Thesaurus)

The head was like that of a fowl, the body that of a bloated lizard, the trailing tail was furnished with upward-turned spikes, and the curved back was edged with a high serrated fringe, which looked like a dozen cocks' wattles placed behind each other.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)