CAPE TOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape Town mean? 

• CAPE TOWN (noun)
  The noun CAPE TOWN has 1 sense:

1. port city in southwestern South Africa; the seat of the legislative branch of the government of South Africa

  Familiarity information: CAPE TOWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPE TOWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Port city in southwestern South Africa; the seat of the legislative branch of the government of South Africa

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)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Cape Town" is a part of...):

Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))

 Context examples 

This drug profile reveals the potential to be part of a single-dose cure, benefitting people who are infected with malaria, and working as a preventative measure, says Kelly Chibale, a corresponding author of the article and founding director of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Drug Discovery and Development Centre, H3D.

(Antimalarial candidate holds promise as a single dose, SciDev.Net)

The scientists behind the present study only note various hypotheses about the cause of the disappearance of great white sharks from this area, though Dr. Alison Kock of the University of Cape Town has reported a correlation with the entry of orcas into False Bay, possibly because human activity has rendered prey hard to find elsewhere.

(Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in, Wikinews)

Thanks to the work in Kenya of Hussein Isack, who electrified me as an 11-year-old when I heard him speak in Cape Town, we’ve long known that people can increase their rate of finding bees’ nests by collaborating with honeyguides, sometimes following them for over a kilometre.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

From 2007 until 2015, PASS Network researchers followed the outcomes of nearly 12,000 pregnancies among women from two residential areas in Cape Town, South Africa; and five sites in the U.S., including two American Indian Reservations in South Dakota and North Dakota.

(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)

It would be fascinating to know whether dolphins respond to special calls made by fishermen, as Pliny the Elder asserted nearly two thousand years ago, says evolutionary biologist Dr Claire Spottiswoode (University of Cambridge and University of Cape Town).

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)