DUKE UNIVERSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Duke University mean? 

• DUKE UNIVERSITY (noun)
  The noun DUKE UNIVERSITY has 1 sense:

1. a university in Durham, North Carolina

  Familiarity information: DUKE UNIVERSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUKE UNIVERSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university in Durham, North Carolina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Holonyms ("Duke University" is a part of...):

Durham (a city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University)

 Context examples 

"We lost 98 percent of the wildebeest population, 75 percent of the zebra population and 30 percent of the elephant population," said Susan Alberts, a biologist at Duke University.

(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)

The Center serves as the focus for all of Duke University's activities in cancer, a single entity that integrates and aligns patient care and research with the goals of improving patient outcomes, decreasing the burden of cancer and accelerating scientific progress.

(Duke Cancer Institute, NCI Thesaurus)

A national clinical research group - network of 29 university medical centers, over 185 community hospitals and more than almost 3000 physicians - sponsored by the NCI, with its Central Office headquartered at the University of Chicago, and its Statistical Center located at Duke University, founded in 1955 with a goal of bringing together clinical and laboratory research.

(Cancer and Leukemia Group B, NCI Thesaurus)

Biomedical engineers from Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis have demonstrated that, by injecting an artificial protein made from a solution of ordered and disordered segments, a solid scaffold forms in response to body heat, and in a few weeks seamlessly integrates into tissue.

(Biomaterial Artificial Protein Helps Heal Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center tested whether a strategy to increase dendritic cell migration to lymph nodes would improve the effects of a dendritic cell vaccine against glioblastoma multiforme, the most common form of malignant brain cancer in adults.

(Boosting Immunotherapy Against Brain Cancer, NIH)

About 10 percent of all kids ages 2 to 17 with asthma might have avoided the illness by maintaining a healthy weight, according to researchers at Duke University and collaborators with the National Pediatric Learning Health System (PEDSnet).

(Obesity May Be to Blame for Quarter of Asthma Cases in Children, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A study of lemur scents conducted by researchers at Duke University finds that an individual's distinctive body odor reflects genetic differences in its immune system and that other lemurs can detect these differences by smell.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)