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ADMINISTER

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give or apply (medications)

Synonyms:

administer; dispense

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

"Administer" entails doing...:

apply; give (give or convey physically)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):

transfuse (give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to)

digitalize (administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects)

inject; shoot (give an injection to)

give (give (as medicine))

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

administration (the act of administering medication)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Administer or bestow, as in small portions

Example:

the machine dispenses soft drinks

Synonyms:

administer; allot; deal; deal out; dish out; dispense; distribute; dole out; lot; mete out; parcel out; shell out

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):

allot; assign; portion (give out)

reallot (allot again)

deal (distribute cards to the players in a game)

apply; give (give or convey physically)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Perform (a church sacrament) ritually

Example:

administer the last unction

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

apply; give (give or convey physically)

"Administer" entails doing...:

execute; put to death (kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):

insufflate (breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

Work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of

Example:

she administers the funds

Synonyms:

administer; administrate

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

care; deal; handle; manage (be in charge of, act on, or dispose of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):

pontificate (administer a pontifical office)

manage; oversee; superintend; supervise (watch and direct)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

administrable (capable of being administered or managed)

administration (a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs))

administration (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

administration (the tenure of a president)

administrative (of or relating to or responsible for administration)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Direct the taking of

Example:

administer an oath

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

direct (be in charge of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Method of administering the drug through hemodialysate fluid.

(Administration via Hemodialysis, NCI Thesaurus)

The concept for an administered component.

(Administered Component Concept, NCI Thesaurus)

Twenty-four hours after vaccination, the dimerizing agent AP1903 is administered.

(Adenovector-transduced AP1903-inducible MyD88/CD40-expressing Autologous PSMA-specific Prostate Cancer Vaccine BPX-201, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent, when administered in conjunction with a synthetic acyclic guanosine analogue, possesses potential antineoplastic activity.

(Ad-hCMV-TK, NCI Thesaurus)

The results showed that administering a tetanus booster before the vaccine increased dendritic cell migration to lymph nodes and significantly improved both the time without disease progression and overall survival.

(Boosting Immunotherapy Against Brain Cancer, NIH)

Researchers discovered that an immune checkpoint molecule they developed for cancer immunotherapy, also protects against future development of multiple types of cancer when administered by itself.

(Immune Stimulant Molecule Protects against Cancer Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The scientists administered CPT to mice with severe inflammatory responses.

(Drug might help treat sepsis, NIH)

The TTP-based treatments would be cost effective and easy to administer.

(Natural protein points to new inflammation treatment, NIH)

"Our analysis precisely reports how effective sleep deprivation is and in which populations it should be administered."

(Sleep Deprivation: Effective Anti-Depressant, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Lady Middleton was ashamed of doing nothing before them, and the flattery which Lucy was proud to think of and administer at other times, she feared they would despise her for offering.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)