IL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does IL mean? 

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

1. a midwestern state in north-central United States

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

• IL (adjective)
  The adjective IL has 1 sense:

1. being nine more than forty

  Familiarity information: IL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midwestern state in north-central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

IL; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "IL"):

Moline (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River)

Little Wabash; Little Wabash River (a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the Wabash River)

Illinois River (a river in Illinois that flows southwest to the Mississippi River)

Urbana (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign)

capital of Illinois; Springfield (capital of the state of Illinois)

Rock Island (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War)

Rockford (a city in northern Illinois)

Peoria (a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River)

East Saint Louis (a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis)

Decatur (a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here)

Chicago; Windy City (largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan)

Champaign (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana)

Carbondale (a town in southern Illinois)

Cairo (a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers)

Holonyms ("IL" is a part of...):

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

• IL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being nine more than forty

Synonyms:

49; forty-nine; il

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

A recombinant analog of the endogenous cytokine interleukin-2 (IL-2) with immunoregulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(Aldesleukin, NCI Thesaurus)

Anakinra blocks the action of interleukin 1 (IL-1).

(Anakinra, NCI Dictionary)

A recombinant human nonglycosylated interleukin-1 (IL-1) receptor antagonist with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Anakinra, NCI Thesaurus)

As INXN-1001 regulates both the timing and the levels of IL-12 expression, IL-12 toxicity can be reduced.

(Adenoviral Transduced hIL-12-expressing Autologous Dendritic Cells INXN-3001 Plus Activator Ligand INXN-1001, NCI Thesaurus)

These cells produce the immune signaling molecule IL-17A.

(Skin Microbes and the Immune Response, NIH)

Once released, IL-27 molecules appeared to travel to the bones of the mice, infiltrated the marrow, and changed the role newborn neutrophils played in response to a stroke.

(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)

When IL-33 reaches the gut, it works in concert with IL-25, a protein secreted by cells in the lining of the intestine, to activate type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s).

(Scratching the skin primes the gut for allergic reactions to food, mouse study suggests, National Institutes of Health)

A murine monoclonal antibody directed against of the beta subunit of interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R), expressed on resting T-lymphocytes, natural killer (NK) cells, and some leukemic cell types.

(Monoclonal Antibody Mik-Beta-1, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a member of the IL-6 family of cytokines that is primarily known for its effects on cell growth.

(Oncostatin M, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine consisting of a mixture of a murine lymphoma-derived idiotype and interleukin-2 (IL-2) encapsulated in dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine liposomes.

(Oncovax-ID/IL-2 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)