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TETHER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal

Synonyms:

lead; leash; tether

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

constraint; restraint (a device that retards something's motion)

Derivation:

tether (tie with a tether)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tie with a tether

Example:

tether horses

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

attach (cause to be attached)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

tether (restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal)

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 Context examples: 

Its amphipathic alpha helix binds to the PKA RII subunit and tethers the enzyme near its substrates.

(A Kinase Anchor Protein 12, NCI Thesaurus)

LBC binds to PKA RII tethering it near substrates.

(A Kinase Anchor Protein 13, NCI Thesaurus)

About the centre, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed—I tethered by my rope, he ploughing, with deep pants, among the sliding gravel.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This protein is comprised of 311 N-terminal amino acids from the tether containing UBX domain for GLUT4 protein fused to the C-terminal part of the transcription factor E3 protein, including the helix-loop-helix, and leucine zipper domains.

(ASPSCR1/TFE3 Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The PRC2 complex is probably tethered to promoters of affected genes through the interaction with specific DNA binding factors, such as YY1, a zinc finger transcription factor that acts as both a positive and negative regulator of transcription of cellular and viral genes.

(Gene Silencing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Presently the horses began to scream, and tore at their tethers till I came to them and quieted them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Our time is not yet come, and we must lie here until evening. Throw off your jacks and headpieces, least their eyes catch the shine, and tether the horses among the rocks.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A dry-wood fire had been lit, and round this the leaders crouched, the glare beating upon their rugged faces, while the hardy archers lounged and chatted amid the tethered horses, while they munched their scanty provisions.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Slowly the long and glittering train wound into the lists, until every horse had been tethered by the varlets in waiting, and every lord and lady seated in the long stands which stretched, rich in tapestry and velvet and blazoned arms, on either side of the centre of the arena.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)