conjugateadj.n.
/ˈkɒndʒʊɡət/ A. adj.
I. Joined together, conjoined.
1.
a. Joined together, esp. in a pair, coupled; connected, related. (In quot. 1552 = united in marriage.)
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective]
wedded?a800
spousedc1300
weda1400
marriedc1400
boundenc1426
conjugate1471
nuptial?1585
yoked1607
continuous1642
wedlock-bound1667
coupled1672
conjugated1690
partnered1775
mated1821
attached1898
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [adjective]
double1393
coupledc1440
conjugate1471
duplicate?a1475
jumellec1475
gemel1497
geminate1589
paired1595
fellowed1654
duplicatory1659
gemellous1697
dyadic1728
duplex1817
Siamese twins1829
parial1849
dyad1869
duadic1879
pairwise1913
duplicitous1985
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > coupled or yoked together
coupledc1440
conjugate1471
yokedc1540
fellow-yoked1620
jugated1727
the world > relative properties > relationship > [adjective] > related or connected
fastOE
of kin1486
akin1548
alliant1551
consortinga1592
kin1600
conjugate1605
consanguineousa1616
social1620
related1623
relatea1627
connex1653
cognate1655
agnate1686
contiguous1770
connected1789
allied1794
adjoining1869
1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy iv, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 144 Soe be they together surely conjugate.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bastard begotten betwene base and gentle, or betwene coniugate and single, spurius.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ii4v Humane Philosophy..hath two parts: The one considereth Man segregate, or distributiuely: The other congregate or in societie. So as humane philosophy is either simple and particvlar, or coniugate and Ciuile. View more context for this quotation
1879 C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (ed. 2) 177 The conjugate use of ‘whilst’ and ‘then’ in these verses is, to say the least, very unusual.
b. Bibliography. (See quot. 1927.)
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society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [adjective] > of two leaves forming single piece of paper
conjugate1881
1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. Introd. iii. 213 Three pairs of conjugate leaves.
1927 R. B. McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. i. iii. 27 Two leaves which ‘belong to one another’, i.e. if traced into and out of the back of the book are found to form a single piece of paper, are said to be ‘conjugate’.
1957 N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon p. xxii The eight leaves forming the quire are four conjugate pairs (i.e. four sheets), 1–8, 2–7, 3–6, and 4–5.
1968 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 8 81 Quire iv consists only of two conjugate leaves.
2. Grammar. Applied to words which are directly derived from the same root or stem, and therefore usually of kindred meaning; as wise, wisely, wisdom. [ < Latin conjugata verba.]
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [adjective] > derivative > derived from the same root
paronymous1656
conjugate1862
cognate1868
paronymic1890
1862 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. (new ed.) i. 18 Our word language has no conjugate adjective.
1862 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. (new ed.) xxvi. 421 Cost and costly..are strictly conjugate.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 277 Another source of ambiguity is the supposition that paronymous or conjugate words—as the substantive, verb, adjective, and adverb formed from the same root—necessarily agree in meaning.
3. Chemistry.
a. In conjugate compound, conjugate acid, conjugate radical: see quots.
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1882 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 8 [quoting Laurent and Gerhardt] We designate as conjugate compounds all such as are formed by the direct union of two bodies, with elimination of water, and are capable of reproducing the original bodies by again taking up the elements of water.
1882 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 10 Another class of acids to which the term conjugate is still sometimes applied, includes those which result from a peculiar action of sulphuric acid..on certain organic bodies.
b. conjugate solution n. one of two solutions which are in equilibrium at a given temperature.
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the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > solutions > [noun] > conjugate solution
conjugate solution1909
1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1932 E. Gregory Metall. iii. 69 Such solutions as x1 and x2 which can exist in equilibrium with each other at a constant temperature are known as conjugate solutions.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. XII. 699/2 Mixtures of the alcohol and water in proportions corresponding to compositions between A and B will, after shaking, separate into these two ‘conjugate’ solutions A and B, which are in equilibrium with one another.
4.
a. Botany. Said of leaves or (formerly) flowers which grow in pairs; spec. applied to a pinnate leaf having only one pair of leaflets.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > compound or lobed
cut1565
winged1668
pinnate1687
conjugated1690
trifoliated1698
auriculated1712
auriculate1714
pennate1723
pinnated1725
pennated1727
bigeminate1753
lyrated1753
pedated1753
pinnatifid1753
supradecomposite1753
supradecompound1753
ternated1753
trifoliate1753
lyrate1760
pedate1760
quinate1760
ternate1760
tripinnate1760
palmed1767
bilobated1770
lyre-shaped1778
pennatifid1778
finger-parted1783
superdecompound1783
bipinnate1785
biternate1785
conjugate1785
lobed1787
tergeminate1793
wing-cleft1796
yoked?1803
binate1807
septenate1807
trijugous1813
auricled1821
pinniform1821
multijugous1828
pinnulate1828
trifoliolate1828
bipinnatifid1830
multifoliolate1831
multijugate1831
quinquefoliolate1832
bifoliolate1835
pinnatisected1837
palmatifid1839
tripinnatifid1839
foliate1840
palmatipartite1840
pinnatilobate1840
pinnatipartite1840
pinnatisect1840
bipinnated1842
biconjugate1847
imparipinnate1847
paripinnate1851
pinnatulate1855
polytomous1856
multifoliate1857
pennati-partite1857
pennati-sected1857
ternato-pinnate1857
tripinnatisect1857
patentoternate1859
septemfoliate1859
bipinnatipartite1861
bipinnatisected1861
bipalmate1864
pinnatilobed1866
septenous1866
cut-leaved1870
lobing1870
ternatisect1870
tripinnated1876
trijugate1880
jugate1887
pinnulated1890
trisect1899
tridigitate1900
trigeminous1900
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 205 The leaves are double or conjugate, that is, come out in pairs.
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 261 The conjugate leaf of Zygophyllum.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Conjugate, paired; when the petiole of a leaf bears one pair only of leaflets.
b. conjugate foramen n. Anatomy a foramen or aperture at the junction of two bones, esp. vertebræ, formed by the apposition of opposite notches.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > [noun] > aperture at
conjugate foramen1870
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 8 For the blood to pass out..by a conjugate foramen.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 141 Two alternately placed series of conjugate foramina.
c. Biology. Said of the cells or filaments that have united in conjugation n. (sense A. 5).
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > attached or becoming united
connated1578
indeciduous1646
adnate1648
confluent1823
connate1826
inserted1826
coadunate1839
conjugate1843
conjugating1851
coadnate1866
1843 tr. J. Müller Elements Physiol. II. 1505 In each of the conjugate filaments, some cells are the recipients, while others yield their contents to the opposite cell of the contiguous filament.
5. conjugate deviation n. Pathology the forced and persistent turning of both eyes to one side while their relation to each other remains unaltered.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > disordered movement
nystagmus1772
wandering1869
conjugate deviation1882
phoria1891
sursumduction1893
sursumvergence1897
oculogyric crisis1927
1882 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 78 There is no conjugate deviation of the eyes as often occurs in apoplexy.
1886 W. Stirling Text-bk. Human Physiol. (ed. 2) 849 In hemiplegia the muscles on one side are paralysed, so that the head and often the eyes are turned away from the paralysed side. This is called ‘conjugate deviation’ of the eyes, with rotation of the head and neck.
II. Joined in a reciprocal relation.
6. Physics. Applied to two points, lines, quantities, or things, which are so reciprocally related that any or every property of the first with respect to the second is also true of the second with respect to the first.The corresponding Greek συζυγεῖς was first applied by Apollonius ( Conica 1. 56) to conjugate hyperbolas.
a. Mathematics. (Here also applied in a secondary sense to that which is conjugate to the main element, e.g. in conjugate axis, diameter, point.) Of a complex number or quantity: differing from some given complex quantity in having the sign of the imaginary part reversed. conjugate axes or diameters (of a conic): two axes, etc., such that each is parallel to the tangent at the extremity of the other; in a conicoid, there are three conjugate diameters. conjugate axis (or diameter) of an ellipse or hyperbola: that which is conjugate to the transverse axis, the minor axis. conjugate function: see quots. conjugate hyperbolas: hyperbolas which have the same axes and asymptotes, but the principal axis of each is the second axis of the other. conjugate lines: two lines the pole of each of which, with respect to a conic, lies on the other. conjugate planes: see quot. 1862. conjugate point (of a curve): an isolated point whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve, an acnode (so also conjugate oval). conjugate points: points the polar of each of which, with respect to a conic, passes through the other.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > describing relationships between quantities > inverse
reciprocal1570
reverse1594
inverse proportion1660
inverted1678
conjugate1680
conjugated1798
the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > prime > complex > conjugate
conjugate1835
1680 J. Moore Doctr. of Sphere 67 This shall be the Conjugate Semidiameter of the Ellipsis.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. iii. §31. 438 To find the conjugate Diameters of an Ellipse, which passes thro' five given Points.
1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 112 All the Parallelograms inscribed between the four Conjugate Hyperbolas are equal to one another.
1835 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1834 519 Mr. Hamilton proposes to consider a few properties of such Conjugate Functions, or Algebraic Couples, defining two functions to be conjugate when they satisfy the two equations of conjugation, and calling, under the same circumstances, the pair or couple (u, v) a function of the pair (x, y).
1862 G. Salmon Treat. Analytic Geom. Three Dimensions (1874) §71 Three diametral planes are said to be conjugate when each is conjugate to the intersection of the other two, and three diameters are said to be conjugate when each is conjugate to the plane of the other two.
1873 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism I. xii. 227 Definition of Conjugate Functions. Two quantities α and β are said to be conjugate functions of x and y, if α + √−1 β is a function of x + √ − 1 y.
1876 Leishman Midwifery (ed. 2) ii. 34 The conjugate diameter [of the pelvis] is..increased from above downwards.
1880 C. Taylor Anc. & Mod. Geom. Conics 76 The conjugate axis of any central conic is occasionally called its minor axis.
1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 47 Let A, B, C be the given points (lying on a straight line) and let A and B be conjugate to each other.
1891 G. L. Cathcart tr. A. Harnack Introd. Study Elem. Differential & Integral Calculus ii. iii. 153 If the equation have one complex root z = α + iβ, it has also the conjugate complex root z = α − iβ.
1908 G. H. Hardy Course Pure Math. iii. 82 The sum (2x) of two conjugate numbers and their product (x2 + y2) are both real.
1955 W. Pauli in W. Pauli Niels Bohr & Devel. Physics 30 The replacement of a function by its conjugate complex is not a ‘linear operator’.
1961 C. C. T. Baker Dict. Math. 73 Conjugate functions, if u + iv = f(x+ iy), then u and v are said to be conjugate functions.
1962 D. R. Corson & P. Lorrain Introd. Electromagn. Fields App. D. 517 These are the Cauchy-Riemann equations. The functions U and V are related to each other through these equations and are called conjugate functions.
b. Optics. conjugate foci (of a mirror or lens): two points so situated that if a luminous point be placed at either, its rays are reflected or refracted to the other; so conjugate focal distance. conjugate mirrors: two parabolic mirrors so placed face to face that rays of heat or light emanating from the focus of either are reflected in parallel lines to the second and thence to its focus.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > emission of light, radiation > [adjective] > reciprocally joined
conjugate1831
conjugated1871
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics i. 11 The points A and F have been called conjugate foci, because if either of them be the radiant point the other will be the focal point.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iv. 85 The two conjugate focal distances of the lens.
1881 W. Tyndall in Nature 17 Feb. 375/1 The silvered mirrors..acting sometimes singly and sometimes as conjugate mirrors.
c. As in conjugate branch (of a divided circuit), conjugate current, etc.: see quots. (Formerly used in a more general sense.)
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > [adjective] > in reciprocal relation
conjugate branch1783
1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 App. p. xxi. (transl. Volta) When an insulated conductor is opposed or presented to another conductor whatever, I call it a conjugate conductor.
1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 367 If there be more possible electrodes than two, the conductor may have more than one independent current through it, and these may not be conjugate to each other.
1882 J. D. Everett Deschanel's Elem. Treat. Nat. Philos. (ed. 6) 738 When this condition is fulfilled, the remaining pair of opposite branches are conjugate, that is to say, a battery in one produces no current in the other.
1882 J. D. Everett Deschanel's Elem. Treat. Nat. Philos. (ed. 6) §759 When there is equality between the two products of opposite resistances..the current in either of the two remaining branches will be independent of the electro-motive force of the battery in the other; and these two branches are still said to be conjugate.
B. n.† 2. Anything connected or related in idea with another. Obsolete.
1. One of a group of words directly derived from the same root or stem, and usually of kindred meaning.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > derivation > state of being derived from same word > word which
conjugatea1586
paronym1846
cognate1865
a1586 Answer to Cartwright 45 These be coniugates, an vnlawfull minister, and his vnlawfull ministerie.
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xii. f. 50v Conjugates..as justice, just, justly.
1656 J. Bramhall in T. Hobbes Questions Liberty 63 We have learned in the rudiments of logick that conjugates are sometimes in name onely, and not in deed.
1836 Whewell Pref. Mackintosh's Eth. Philos. 18 The word utility, and its conjugates, do not express our judgments in cases of moral conduct.
1862 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. (new ed.) xxvi. 421 Few languages are richer than English in approximate synonyms and conjugates.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which is related or has affinity
brotherOE
cousina1398
relativea1475
sistera1500
cousin-germanc1547
yokefellow1547
ally1566
affinitive1579
twin1592
conjugate1605
sympathizant1620
relatist1640
first cousin1670
family likeness1759
family resemblance1785
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun] > system of > connection > something connected
conjugate1605
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Oo4 The cogitations of Man, doe fayne vnto them Relatiues, Parallelles, and Coniugates, whereas no such thinge is. View more context for this quotation
1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 46 A mighty imagination, which delights in easie conjugates, parallels, and symbolizing instances.
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3. Chemistry. Short for conjugate compound, conjugate acid, or conjugate radical at sense A. 3a.
4. Mathematics. Short for conjugate axis, conjugate diameter, conjugate point at sense A. 6a, etc.: see A. 6a.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [noun] > geometrical relation > element involved in
conjugate1715
inverse curve1843
inverse1857
homoeomorph1926
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. §39. 79 Draw a Tangent PZ, and a Diameter PM, and a conjugate to it ICK parallel to PZ.
1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. The Conjugate to any diameter, is the line drawn through the centre, and parallel to the tangent of the curve at the vertex of the diameter.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 302 A semi~ellipse, described on a conjugate equal to the width of the pier.
1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 101 In an involution..the elements are conjugate to one another in pairs; i.e. each element has its conjugate.
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(b) Of a pair of arcs or angles: totalling 360°. Of two elements of a matrix: differing in position by having row and column numbers interchanged.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [adjective] > of geometrical relation
reciprocal1570
regular1570
projectivea1652
semi-conjugate axis1743
homographic1859
symmetric1860
confocal1867
correlative1881
involutorial1885
conjugate1902
antisymmetrical1913
homoeomorphic1918
homotopic1918
isometric1952
1902 J. W. Mellor Higher Math. x. 411 When the two constituents of a determinant hold the same relative position with respect to the rows and columns, they are said to be conjugate.
1942 G. James & R. C. James Math. Dict. 11/1 Conjugate angles, two angles whose sum is a perigon; two angles whose sum is 360°.
1942 G. James & R. C. James Math. Dict. 46/1 Conjugate arcs, arcs whose sum is a complete circle.
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Chemistry and Biochemistry. A conjugated compound.
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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > [noun] > compounds > types > conjugated compound
maleic anhydride1857
conjugate1916
1916 A. P. Mathews Physiol. Chem. xvii. 759 Hippuric acid is a glycine conjugate, but there are many others.
1924 T. B. Robertson Princ. Biochem. (ed. 2) xxiii. 662 These substances are in themselves very toxic, but their conjugates with glucuronic acid are harmless.
1973 Nature 7 Dec. 350/2 The immunoglobin was..conjugated with fluorescein... Twenty microlitres of cells..was incubated with neat conjugate for 30 min at 20°C.
1988 Sci. Amer. Mar. 46/1 We synthesized such an analogue, coupled it to a carrier protein and immunized mice with the conjugate.
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conjugatev.
/ˈkɒndʒʊɡeɪt/ 1. transitive. To yoke together, to couple; to join together, unite. rare.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)] > couple or yoke together
couplec1330
twinc1394
yokea1400
accouple1548
conjugate1570
ingeminate1609
incouple1611
jugate1623
adjugate1730
wive1886
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Di/1 To Coniugate, coniungare.
a1639 Wotton in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 216 Power and occasion to conjugate at pleasure the Norman and the Saxon Houses.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 173 Lyons, and Oxen, Asps, and young Children, (for thus the Text conjugates them) dwell together.
1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks i. ii. 10 [The vessels of the bark] Conjugated or braced together in the form of Net-work.
2. Grammar. To inflect (a verb) in its various forms of voice, mood, tense, number, and person.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > inflect [verb (transitive)] > conjugate
conjugate1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 33 In the seconde boke, where I conjugate je parle and je conuertis at the length.
c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) ii. x. §10 These [verbs] our idiom conjugates onelie in tuo tymes, the tyme present and tym past.
1783 Gentleman's Mag. 53 i. 432 Can any of you all impart A rule to conjugate the heart; To shew its present, perfect, future, Its active, passive and its neuter.
1804 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 9) ii. vi. 109 These languages, like our own..sometimes conjugate with an auxiliary, and sometimes without it.
1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue vi. 239 Whatever verb is invented or borrowed is naturally conjugated after the prevalent pattern.
3. intransitive.
a. = conjoin v. 4c.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
1790 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday (1794) 12 When first I woo'd and won Your will to conjugate in Ceres' cot.
b. Biology. To unite in conjugation n. (sense 5a).
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [verb (intransitive)] > coalesce
fuse1870
conjugate1872
1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) iv. 81 Organic beings extremely low in the scale, which do not propagate sexually, nor conjugate.
1875 Contemp. Rev. 27 83 Any two cells may conjugate and combine their contents within a single cell.
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4. transitive. Chemistry and Biochemistry. To combine (one compound) with another, usually of a different kind, to form a molecule in which the constituents retain their identity and from which they can be readily recovered.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical admixture or isolation > fix in combination [verb (transitive)] > conjugate
conjugate1882
1882 [implied in: H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 7 Dumas and Piria..designated [such acids] as ‘conjugated acids’. (at conjugated adj. b)].
1900 J. A. Mandel tr. Hammarsten Text-bk. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 3) xv. 481 In birds..the acid is conjugated to another substance, ornithin.
1913 J. Walker Org. Chem. 302 Hæmoglobin..consists of the protein globin conjugated with the pyrrole derivative hæmatin.
1924 T. B. Robertson Princ. Biochem. (ed. 2) xxiii. 663 Lack of detoxication, of which the failure to conjugate phenols is an example.
1954 A. White et al. Princ. Biochem. viii. 143 Lipoproteins..are water-soluble proteins conjugated with lecithin, cholesterol, cephalin, etc.
1984 J. R. Tighe & D. R. Davies Pathol. (ed. 4) xvii. 167 The bilirubin becomes detached from the albumin and conjugated with glucuronic acid in the liver cell.
1987 Nursing Jan. 480/1 In newborn babies jaundice occurs..because the enzyme, glucuronyl transferase, which is required to conjugate bilirubin so that it can be excreted through the gut, is lacking.
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