BANGALORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bangalore mean? 

• BANGALORE (noun)
  The noun BANGALORE has 1 sense:

1. an industrial city in south central India (west of Chennai)

  Familiarity information: BANGALORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANGALORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An industrial city in south central India (west of Chennai)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Bangalore" is a part of...):

Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

 Context examples 

The researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore used chlorine to drill ultra-small holes into the surface of titanium to produce ‘nanopillars’ that mechanically stretch and rupture bacterial membranes.

(Nanopillars help orthopaedic implants resist infection, SciDev.Net)

Provider: National Centre for Biological Sciences/ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India.

(NC01, NCI Thesaurus)

In their new study, a team of researchers headed by Drs. Akhilesh Pandey at Johns Hopkins University and Harsha Gowda at the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India, used an advanced form of mass spectrometry to sequence proteins and create a draft map of the human proteome.

(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)

Kartik Sunagar, an author of the study and assistant professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, tells that the venom of spectacled cobra found in West Bengal is strongly neurotoxic while that of the same species in Arunachal Pradesh state is extremely cytotoxic.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

He handed over the book, and I read, Moran, Sebastian, Colonel. Unemployed. Formerly 1st Bangalore Pioneers. Born London, 1840. Son of Sir Augustus Moran, C.B., once British Minister to Persia. Educated Eton and Oxford. Served in Jowaki Campaign, Afghan Campaign, Charasiab (despatches), Sherpur, and Cabul. Author of Heavy Game of the Western Himalayas (1881); Three Months in the Jungle (1884). Address: Conduit Street. Clubs: The Anglo-Indian, the Tankerville, the Bagatelle Card Club.

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

However, in the study, Senji Laxme from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and colleagues show that the antivenom used in India works only against the ‘big four’ — the common krait (Bungarus caeruleus), spectacled cobra (Naja naja), saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus) and Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) — but not against several other medically important species.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)