MOBILIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mobilize mean? 

• MOBILIZE (verb)
  The verb MOBILIZE has 4 senses:

1. make ready for action or use

2. call to arms; of military personnel

3. get ready for war

4. cause to move around

  Familiarity information: MOBILIZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOBILIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mobilize    ... he / she / it mobilizes   
Past simple: mobilized   
Past participle: mobilized   
-ing form: mobilizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make ready for action or use

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

marshal; mobilise; mobilize; summon

Context example:

marshal resources

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

collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)

mobilization (act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Call to arms; of military personnel

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

call up; mobilise; mobilize; rally

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

call; send for (order, request, or command to come)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

demobilize (release from military service or remove from the active list of military service)

Derivation:

mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Get ready for war

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

mobilise; mobilize

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

militarise; militarize (lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

demobilize (retire from military service)

Derivation:

mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause to move around

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

mobilise; mobilize

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

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Cause:

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

As a hematopoietic growth factor, filgrastim is able to mobilize hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) into the peripheral blood which allows for an increased number of HPCs upon collection by leukapheresis.

(Filgrastim-primed Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Cells expressing GPR5 mobilize intracellular calcium and migrate in response to SCYC1 and SCYC2.

(Chemokine (C Motif) Receptor 1, NCI Thesaurus)

During replication, Y-shaped regions of replicating DNA molecules are mobilized, where the enzymes replicating a DNA molecule bind to an untwisted, single DNA strand.

(DNA Replication Fork, NCI Thesaurus)

In turn, HIF induces the synthesis of stromal-derived factor 1 (SDF-1) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) which mobilize CD34/CXCR4 positive stem cells; CXCR4 is the receptor for stromal-derived factor 1 (SDF-1).

(Autologous Bone Marrow-derived CD34/CXCR4-positive Stem Cells AMR-001, NCI Thesaurus)

GPCRs coupled to the Gaq family of G proteins stimulate PLCb, which cleaves membrane phospholipids to produce IP3, which mobilizes intracellular calcium, and DAG, which activates PKC.

(G-Protein Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This seems to be the area of the brain which mobilizes to regain control over our response to stress.

(Researchers identify brain circuits that help people cope with stress, NIH)

Galanin Receptor 2 decreases cAMP through an inhibitory G-protein and stimulates phospholipase C and mobilizes calcium through Gq/G11.

(Galanin Receptor 2, NCI Thesaurus)

As the atmosphere warms, winds generated by larger contrasts in surface temperature at different locations mobilize dust particles the size of individual talcum powder grains.

(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)

When glucose is mobilized from glycogen, it is released as glucose 1-phosphate.

(Feeder Pathways for Glycolysis, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Elevation of calcium functions as a major second messenger, where the intracellular concentration of calcium can be maintained at extremely low levels and subsequently increased following specific calcium-mobilizing stimuli.

(Calmodulin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)