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• LIN (noun)
The noun LIN has 1 sense:
1. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)
Familiarity information: LIN used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Lin; Maya Lin
Instance hypernyms:
architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))
carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker (an artist who creates sculptures)
Context examples
NOTCH4 Protein is a Drosophila Notch receptor homologue with 29 extracellular EGF-like repeats, three Notch/lin-12 repeats, a transmembrane region, six intracellular cdc10/ankyrin repeats, a polyglutamine domain, and a C-terminal PEST region.
(Notch4 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
Expressed in adult/fetal tissues by human NOTCH1 Gene (Notch Family), 2556-aa 273-kDa phosphorylated type 1 transmembrane Notch Homolog 1 contains 36 extracellular EGF domains, 3 Lin/Notch repeats, and multiple intracellular domains, including 5 ANK repeats.
(Notch Homolog 1, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes protein lin-28 homolog B, is involved in the regulation of pre-miRNA degradation.
(LIN28B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Lin-28 homolog A (209 aa, ~23 kDa) is encoded by the human LIN28 gene.
(Lin-28 Homolog A, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes lin-28 homolog A protein, plays a role in the modulation of translation.
(LIN28A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
MAGUKs include Drosophila lethal(1)discs large-1 tumor suppressor protein (dlg1); mammalian Zo-1 tight junction protein; mammalian synaptic proteins that seem to interact with the cytoplasmic tail of NMDA receptor subunits (SAP90/PSD-95, CHAPSYN-110/PSD-93, SAP97/DLG1 and SAP102); 55 kD erythrocyte membrane protein (p55); C. elegans lin-2 protein; rat CASK protein; and human DLG2 and DLG3 proteins.
(Membrane-Associated Guanylate Kinase Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Now, senior authors Dan Sheldon and Subhransu Maji along with lead author Tsung-Yu Lin, all with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and others unveil their new tool MistNet.
(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)
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