ENROL (enrolled, enrolling)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: enrolled    , enrolling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does enrol mean? 

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

1. register formally as a participant or member

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENROL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enrol    ... he / she / it enrols   
Past simple: enroled   
Past participle: enroled   
-ing form: enroling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Register formally as a participant or member

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

enrol; enroll; enter; inscribe; recruit

Context example:

The party recruited many new members

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

register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)

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

draft; enlist; muster in (engage somebody to enter the army)

unionise; unionize (recruit for a union or organize into a union)

register (enroll to vote)

matriculate (enroll as a student)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

enrolment (the act of enrolling)

 Context examples 

Thirty patients, ages 16 to 65, with severe sickle cell disease enrolled in the study between 2004 and 2013.

(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)

They enrolled 525 healthy adults, ages 70 and older, in a 5-year observational study.

(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)

The team enrolled 40 young children (9 to 36 months old) newly diagnosed with peanut allergy.

(Preschoolers benefit from peanut allergy therapy, NIH)

The Phase 1/2 trial reported today enrolled eight infants aged 2 to 14 months who were newly diagnosed with X-SCID and lacked a genetically matched sibling donor.

(Gene therapy restores immunity in infants with rare immunodeficiency disease, National Institutes of Health)

The researchers are now enrolling patients in a clinical trial to test JAK inhibitors in patients with SAVI and other rare autoinflammatory syndromes for which there are no satisfactory treatments.

(Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, NIH)

In the current trial, researchers enrolled 2,370 couples planning infertility treatments in four U.S. cities and their surrounding areas.

(Zinc, folic acid supplement does not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)

The study enrolled 171 couples where the male partner had at least one abnormal reading on an analysis evaluating sperm concentration, mobility, shape and DNA quality; the female partners had normal fertility test results.

(Antioxidant supplements do not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)

An organization that integrates financing and management of healthcare with the delivery of healthcare services to an enrolled population.

(Managed Healthcare Plan, NCI Thesaurus)

Study subjects are only exposed to the treatment that is assigned to the particular study arm they are enrolled in.

(Parallel Study, NCI Thesaurus)

A managed care organization that provides health services to enrolled individuals.

(Health Maintenance Organization, NCI Thesaurus)