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COOPERATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cooperate mean?
• COOPERATE (verb)
The verb COOPERATE has 1 sense:
1. work together on a common enterprise of project
Familiarity information: COOPERATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it cooperates Past simple: cooperated
Past participle: cooperated
-ing form: cooperating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Work together on a common enterprise of project
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces
Context example:
We joined forces with another research group
Hypernyms (to "cooperate" is one way to...):
work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)
Verb group:
collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cooperate"):
collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)
go along; play along (cooperate or pretend to cooperate)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
cooperation (the practice of cooperating)
cooperation (joint operation or action)
cooperative (done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit)
cooperative (involving the joint activity of two or more)
cooperator (an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest)
Context examples
Both the HAT activity and the histone methyltransferase activity may cooperate in histone modification and facilitate nucleosome remodeling and recruitment of transcriptional machinery.
(Gene Expression Regulation by Vitamin D Receptor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
These animals are domesticated or taught to cooperate by their owners.
(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A subpopulation of CD4+ lymphocytes that cooperate with other lymphocytes (either T or B) to initiate a variety of immune functions.
(Helper-Inducer T-Lymphocyte, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Everything seemed to cooperate for her advantage.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
There will be a magical quality about this day—Mars and your ruler Neptune will be cooperating to make this a dream of a day for you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
BMP signaling can also be blocked by the BMP antagonists noggin and chordin, which are secreted from the notochord and cooperate with Wnts to prevent cardiogenesis.
(ALK Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient have periods when he/she refuses to cooperate or won't let people help him/her?
(NPI - Periods When He/She Refuses to Cooperate, NCI Thesaurus)
Basal Transcription Factors are prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins that cooperate with DNA-dependent RNA polymerases to initiate, inhibit or terminate transcription.
(Basal Transcription Factor, NCI Thesaurus)
Since GR and MR cooperate, a better approach is to make a drug that works on both receptors simultaneously.
(Healthy hearts need two proteins working together, National Institutes of Health)
The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) will be in charge of operation and monitoring the satellite and will cooperate with the Army and Navy.
(First Brazilian satellite starts operations, Agência Brasil)
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