SINAI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sinai mean? 

• SINAI (noun)
  The noun SINAI has 3 senses:

1. a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments

2. a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt

3. a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea

  Familiarity information: SINAI used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINAI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mount Sinai; Sinai

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

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

Sinai; Sinai Peninsula (a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Sinai; Sinai Desert

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

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

Sinai; Sinai Peninsula (a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea)

Arabian Desert; Great Arabian Desert (a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Sinai; Sinai Peninsula

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Sinai"):

Sinai; Sinai Desert (a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt)

Mount Sinai; Sinai (a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments)

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

Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic (a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC)

 Context examples 

Dr. Lo and his collaborators at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai also studied human beta cells in their laboratories and determined that adipsin activates a molecule called C3a, which protects and supports beta cell function.

(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The study was led by Manish Arora, Ph.D., an environmental scientist and dentist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York with support from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

(Baby teeth link autism and heavy metals, NIH)

A team of scientists led by r. Eric J. Nestler of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine set out to profile enzymes involved in histone methylation to see if any are influenced by cocaine.

(What Causes Cocaine Addiction, NIH, US)

A research team from NYU Langone Medical Center and Icahn School of Medicine in Mount Sinai, New York, set out to determine whether they could alter the microbiota of babies born by C-section by exposing them to maternal vaginal fluids at birth.

(Restoring microbes in infants born by cesarean section, NIH)

Asthma is an immune-mediated disease, said Sonali Bose, M.D., lead author of the study and assistant professor of medicine, pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins.

(Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children, National Institutes of Health)

The research group, which included experts from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, and Arizona State University, Phoenix, originally set out to find whether drugs used to treat other diseases can be repurposed for treating Alzheimer’s.

(Viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)