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CANDIDATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A politician who is running for public office

Synonyms:

campaigner; candidate; nominee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

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

dark horse (a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly)

favorite son (a United States politician favored mainly in his or her home state)

running mate (a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices)

spoiler (a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning)

stalking-horse (a candidate put forward to divide the Opposition or to mask the true candidate)

write-in; write-in candidate (a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

Synonyms:

candidate; prospect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb candidate

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 Context examples: 

MCC wild-type allele is a candidate colorectal tumor suppressor gene.

(MCC wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The relationship between multiple candidate genes and the occurrence or age of onset of prostate cancer will be examined in Specific Aim 2.

(Molecular Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

This analysis also suggested as many as 20 additional candidate genes providing insights into the genes and pathways involved in pathobiology of AMD.

(New study about genes linked to age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

You do not know how many candidates there always are for the first situations.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Organic semiconductors have not been realistic candidates for spintronics so far because it was impossible to move spins around a polymer circuit far enough without losing the original information.

(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)

This gene is a candidate gene for lethal neonatal metabolic syndrome, a disorder of mitochondrial function.

(ATP-Binding Cassette, Sub-Family B, Member 6, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes cancer susceptibility candidate protein 1, may be involved in the pathogenesis of certain types of cancer.

(CASC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes glioma tumor suppressor candidate region gene 1 protein, plays a putative role in the inhibition of cell growth.

(GLTSCR1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Glioma tumor suppressor candidate region gene 2 protein (478 aa, ~54 kDa) is encoded by the human GLTSCR2 gene.

(Glioma Tumor Suppressor Candidate Region Gene 2 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Alpha-beta heterodimeric human GGTase-I transfers a geranylgeranyl moiety to the Cys of a C-terminal CAAX motif in candidate proteins as a means of membrane localization.

(Geranylgeranyl Transferase, NCI Thesaurus)