REPERTOIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repertoire mean? 

• REPERTOIRE (noun)
  The noun REPERTOIRE has 2 senses:

1. the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation

2. a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule

  Familiarity information: REPERTOIRE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPERTOIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

repertoire; repertory

Context example:

has a large repertory of dialects and characters

Hypernyms ("repertoire" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

repertoire; repertory

Hypernyms ("repertoire" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

 Context examples 

To broaden its repertoire even further, it appears to have intracrine effects in the nucleus of cells that produce it, in addition to having autocrine, juxtacrine, paracrine, and possibly endocrine effects after secretion.

(Parathyroid Hormone-Like Hormone, NCI Thesaurus)

The result is an increase in antibody repertoire diversify, resulting in an enhanced overall immune response.

(Epitope Spreading, NCI Thesaurus)

Participating institutions will be selected by the Network's scientific leadership for their ability to contribute to the particular trials in the Network's research repertoire.

(Cooperative Trial in Diagnostic Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

This process is involved in limiting the persistence of circulating antibodies and in maintaining an active antibody repertoire against recently exposed antigens.

(Negative Regulation of Antibody Titer, NCI Thesaurus)

Donor-derived T-cells were exposed to dendritic cells nucelofected with DNA plasmids encoding Hexon and Penton (Adv), pp65 and IE1 (CMV), and LMP2, EBNA1 and BZLF1 (EBV), all are critical proteins for the proliferation of these viruses, and subsequently maintained in the presence of interleukins 4 and 7 with a novel culture device to expand and sustain the repertoire of CTLs.

(Adenovirus/Cytomegalovirus/Epstein-Barr Virus-specific Allogeneic Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)