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MODULATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does modulate mean?
• MODULATE (verb)
The verb MODULATE has 5 senses:
1. change the key of, in music
2. vary the pitch of one's speech
3. fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
4. adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of
5. vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)
Familiarity information: MODULATE used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: modulated
Past participle: modulated
-ing form: modulating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Change the key of, in music
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
modulate the melody
Hypernyms (to "modulate" is one way to...):
play; spiel (replay (as a melody))
Domain category:
music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They will modulate the duet
Derivation:
modulation (a musical passage moving from one key to another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Vary the pitch of one's speech
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "modulate" is one way to...):
mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
modulation (a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified)
modulation (rise and fall of the voice pitch)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
modulate; regulate
Context example:
modulate the pitch
Hypernyms (to "modulate" is one way to...):
adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
modulation (the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect))
Sense 4
Meaning:
Adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "modulate" is one way to...):
adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
modulation (a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "modulate" is one way to...):
alter; change; vary (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
modulation ((electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase)
Context examples
A class of compounds that modulate the activity of mitotic enzymes.
(Mitotic Enzyme Modulator, NCI Thesaurus)
A class of compounds that modulate the activity of mitotic kinesins.
(Mitotic Kinesin Modulator, NCI Thesaurus)
Certain NSAIDs also may inhibit lipoxygenase enzymes or phospholipase C or may modulate T-cell function.
(Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drug, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Miltefosine targets cellular membranes, modulating cell membrane permeability, membrane lipid composition, phospholipid metabolism, and mitogenic signal transduction, resulting in cell differentiation and inhibition of cell growth.
(Miltefosine, NCI Thesaurus)
This leads to an alteration in protein synthesis, which modulates cell growth of reproductive tissues.
(Megestrol acetate, NCI Thesaurus)
T cell receptor activation induces expression of molecules like the CD40 ligand that modulate the B cell-T cell interaction.
(Antigen Dependent B Cell Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A non-viral expression system using multifunctional plasmid DNA to deliver disease-specific to immune cells and encode peptides/proteins to modulate various diseases.
(Biotope CD, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes calcium signal-modulating cyclophilin ligand protein, plays a role in the calcium signal transduction pathway.
(CAMLG wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Coregulators (coactivators or corepressors) are important in mediating these interactions and thereby modulate positive or negative receptor activity.
(Nuclear Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)
E1A C-terminus negatively modulates the N-terminus and interacts with CtBP.
(Oncogene E1A, NCI Thesaurus)
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