ELICIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elicit mean? 

• ELICIT (verb)
  The verb ELICIT has 3 senses:

1. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

2. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

3. derive by reason

  Familiarity information: ELICIT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELICIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they elicit    ... he / she / it elicits   
Past simple: elicited   
Past participle: elicited   
-ing form: eliciting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise

Context example:

evoke sympathy

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

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "elicit"):

strike a chord; touch a chord (evoke a reaction, response, or emotion)

ask for; invite (increase the likelihood of)

draw (elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.)

rekindle (arouse again)

infatuate (arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way)

prick (to cause a sharp emotional pain)

fire up; heat; ignite; inflame; stir up; wake (arouse or excite feelings and passions)

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

excite (arouse or elicit a feeling)

anger (make angry)

discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)

shame (cause to be ashamed)

bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound (hurt the feelings of)

overcome; overpower; overtake; overwhelm; sweep over; whelm (overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli)

interest (excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

elicitation (stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

draw out; educe; elicit; evoke; extract

Context example:

We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant

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

construe; interpret; see (make sense of; assign a meaning to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Derive by reason

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

elicit a solution

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

deduce; deduct; derive; infer (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)

Domain category:

logic; logical system; system of logic (a system of reasoning)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Vaccination with carcinoembryonic antigen peptide 1-6D, which has the amino acid sequence YLSGANLNL, may elicit a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) immune response against tumors expressing CEA.

(Carcinoembryonic Antigen Peptide 1-6D, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, benralizumab binds to IL-5Ra and elicits an antibody-directed cell cytotoxicity (ADCC) against IL-5Ra-expressing cells.

(Benralizumab, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with this agent may elicit a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) immune response against CEA-expressing tumor cells.

(Carcinoembryonic Antigen Peptide 1-6D Virus-Like Replicon Particles Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

The use of physical activity to elicit signs and symptoms of myocardial ischemia.

(Cardiac Stress Test, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Immunization with MoAb 3622W94 may elicit immune responses, which could result in eradicating tumor cells expressing 17-1A antigen.

(Monoclonal Antibody 3622W94, NCI Thesaurus)

A multivalent antineoplastic vaccine comprised of the bcr-abl oncogene breakpoint fusion peptide that elicits a bcr-abl specific T-cell immune response.

(BCR-ABL Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A purified Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin, a potent antigenic protein capable of eliciting both humoral and cellular immune responses against tumor cells.

(BCI Immune Activator, NCI Thesaurus)

Recognition by the immune system elicits either a T-lymphocyte response, recognizing processed antigens, or a B-lymphocyte response, producing antibodies that bind to unprocessed antigens.

(Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intradermal administration, autologous CD133-positive BTSC mRNA-pulsed autologous dendritic cell vaccine may elicit a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response against the CD133-positive BTSCs from which the autologous tumor mRNA is derived.

(Autologous CD133-Positive BTSC mRNA-Pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with autologous dendritic cell-autologous tumor mRNA-human CD40L vaccine may elicit a cytotoxic T cell response against tumor cells from which the autologous tumor mRNA was derived.

(Autologous Dendritic Cell-Autologous Tumor mRNA-Human CD40L Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)