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BLOOD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Temperament or disposition

Example:

a person of hot blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets

Example:

the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)

Meronyms (parts of "blood"):

blood cell; blood corpuscle; corpuscle (either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets)

Meronyms (substance of "blood"):

blood serum; serum (an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates)

Domain category:

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood"):

arterial blood (blood found in arteries)

blood group; blood type (human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens)

gore (coagulated blood from a wound)

lifeblood (the blood considered as the seat of vitality)

blood stream; bloodstream (the blood flowing through the circulatory system)

blood clot; grume (a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells)

cord blood (blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth)

menorrhea; menstrual blood; menstrual flow (flow of blood from the uterus; occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years)

venous blood (blood found in the veins)

whole blood (blood that has not been modified except for the addition of an anticoagulant)

Derivation:

blood (smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill)

bloody (having or covered with or accompanied by blood)

Sense 3

Meaning:

People viewed as members of a group

Example:

we need more young blood in this organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The descendants of one individual

Example:

his entire lineage has been warriors

Synonyms:

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood"):

family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)

side (a family line of descent)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A dissolute man in fashionable society

Synonyms:

blood; profligate; rake; rakehell; rip; roue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

daub; smear (cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I ran back for a light and there was the poor fellow, a great gash in his throat and the whole place swimming in blood.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Witch did not bleed where she was bitten, for she was so wicked that the blood in her had dried up many years before.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then he put him back into the water, and the fish darted straight down to the bottom, and left a long streak of blood behind him on the wave.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A6 is a small piece of a protein called urokinase (an enzyme that dissolves blood clots or prevents them from forming).

(A6, NCI Dictionary)

Encoded by human AKAP12 Gene, A Kinase Anchor Protein 12 is expressed in endothelial cells, but not in platelets or peripheral blood cells.

(A Kinase Anchor Protein 12, NCI Thesaurus)

To test the functionality of the new structures, the team used Dextran — a fluorescent protein which stains the urine-like substance produced when nephrons filter the blood, called glomerular filtrate.

(Scientists Create Functioning Kidney Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Autologous peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) are collected and separated into monocytes and lymphocytes.

(AAV-DC-CTL Tumor Cell Targeting Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Changes in the ABCA1 pathway may lead to diseases of the heart and blood vessels.

(ABCA1 pathway, NCI Dictionary)

A laboratory test result that indicates the presence of abnormal blood chemistry and/or hematology values.

(Abnormal Blood Chemistry and Hematology Test Result, NCI Thesaurus)

Abegrin binds to a protein on the surface of blood vessels and may prevent the growth of new blood vessels that tumors need to grow.

(Abegrin, NCI Dictionary)