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UNIFORM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)

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

jump suit (one-piece uniform worn by parachutists)

livery (uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs)

military uniform (prescribed identifying uniform for soldiers)

Derivation:

uniform (provide with uniforms)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not differentiated

Synonyms:

undifferentiated; uniform

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

dedifferentiated (having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function)

Derivation:

uniformity (the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom))

uniformity (a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying)

uniformize (make uniform)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The same throughout in structure or composition

Example:

bituminous coal is often treated as a consistent and homogeneous product

Synonyms:

consistent; uniform

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

homogeneous; homogenous (all of the same or similar kind or nature)

Derivation:

uniformity (the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom))

uniformity (a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying)

uniformness (the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Evenly spaced

Example:

at regular (or uniform) intervals

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

regular (in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle)

Derivation:

uniformity (the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences

Example:

a street of uniform tall white buildings

Synonyms:

uniform; unvarying

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

single (having uniform application)

Antonym:

multiform (occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances)

Derivation:

uniformity (the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom))

uniformity (a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying)

uniformness (the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom))

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with uniforms

Example:

The guards were uniformed

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

uniform (clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A coded value specifying the identification of uniform groups of subjects for separate analysis or treatment.

(Experimental Unit Subgroup Code, NCI Thesaurus)

He was not clad in uniform, but he wore a high-collared brown coat, with the right sleeve hanging limp and empty by his side.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is composed of diffuse sheets or large lobules of uniform cells with mild to moderate nuclear atypia and low to moderate level mitotic activity.

(Pineal Parenchymal Tumor of Intermediate Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

It is characterized by the presence of a melanocytic proliferation resulting in the formation of uniform cellular nests.

(Pigmented Spindle Cell Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)

During these eight years my life was uniform: but not unhappy, because it was not inactive.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is characterized by the presence of relatively uniform malignant cells which form acinar patterns.

(Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A cystic adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of relatively uniform neoplastic cells which produce pancreatic enzymes and are arranged in acinar patterns.

(Pancreatic Acinar Cell Cystadenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The neoplastic cells exhibit small and uniform nuclei, mild pleomorphism, and rare mitotic figures.

(Pancreatic Intraductal Papillary-Mucinous Neoplasm with Low Grade Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A carcinoma that arises from the Bartholin gland and is characterized by the presence of islands of uniform malignant cells forming cribriform patterns.

(Bartholin Gland Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Focal and diffuse lesions involving alveoli and respiratory bronchioles and consisting of relatively uniform atypical cuboidal to columnar cells with dense chromatin.

(Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia of the Mouse Pulmonary System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)