CHAPERON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chaperon mean? 

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

1. one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people

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

• CHAPERON (verb)
  The verb CHAPERON has 1 sense:

1. accompany as a chaperone

  Familiarity information: CHAPERON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAPERON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chaperon; chaperone

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

defender; guardian; protector; shielder (a person who cares for persons or property)

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

den mother (a woman who supervises a den of Cub Scouts)

duenna (a woman chaperon)

housemother (a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people)

Derivation:

chaperon (accompany as a chaperone)

• CHAPERON (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chaperon    ... he / she / it chaperons   
Past simple: chaperoned   
Past participle: chaperoned   
-ing form: chaperoning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accompany as a chaperone

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

chaperon; chaperone

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

escort (accompany as an escort)

"Chaperon" entails doing...:

protect (shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

chaperon (one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people)

 Context examples 

The researchers then tested how proteostasis — the successful folding, aggregation and chaperoning of proteins — is affected by cumulative oxidative damage.

(Study reveals how collapse of protein processes is driver of aging and death, National Science Foundation)

HSP90, a chaperon protein upregulated in a variety of tumor cells, regulates the folding and degradation of many oncogenic signaling proteins.

(Hsp90 Inhibitor BIIB021, NCI Thesaurus)

As a chaperon, BiP binds to newly synthesized, unfolded mu immnoglobulin heavy chains prior to its assembly with light chains in the endoplasmic reticulum.

(OVA BiP Peptide, NCI Thesaurus)

Lord! how I should like to be married before any of you; and then I would chaperon you about to all the balls.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I am sure I shall be very happy to chaperon you at any time till I am confined, if Mrs. Dashwood should not like to go into public.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A red chaperon or cap, with long hanging cornette, sat daintily on the back of his black-curled head, while his gold-hued shoes were twisted up a la poulaine, as though the toes were shooting forth a tendril which might hope in time to entwine itself around his massive leg.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was privy, one evening, to the hopes of her aunt Norris on the subject, as well as to her feelings, and the feelings of Mrs. Rushworth, on a point of some similarity, and could not help wondering as she listened; and glad would she have been not to be obliged to listen, for it was while all the other young people were dancing, and she sitting, most unwillingly, among the chaperons at the fire, longing for the re-entrance of her elder cousin, on whom all her own hopes of a partner then depended.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That was unpardonable, and Amy took no more notice of him for a long while, except a word now and then when she came to her chaperon between the dances for a necessary pin or a moment's rest.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Upon administration of gp96-Ig-secreting allogeneic tumor cell vaccine HS110, the irradiated live tumor cells continuously secrete gp96-Ig along with its chaperoned tumor associated antigens (TAAs) into the blood stream, thereby activating antigen presenting cells, natural killer cells and priming potent cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) to respond against TAAs on the endogenous tumor cells.

(Gp96-Ig-secreting Allogeneic Tumor-Cell Vaccine HS110, NCI Thesaurus)

HSP90 inhibitor CNF2024 specifically blocks active HSP90, thereby inhibiting its chaperon function and promoting the degradation of oncogenic signaling proteins involved in tumor cell proliferation and survival.

(Hsp90 Inhibitor BIIB021, NCI Thesaurus)