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CHICAGO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
Synonyms:
boodle; Chicago; Michigan; Newmarket; stops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Chicago" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
Synonyms:
Chicago; Windy City
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Meronyms (parts of "Chicago"):
Sears Tower (a skyscraper built in Chicago in 1974; 1454 feet tall)
University of Chicago (a university in Chicago, Illinois)
Holonyms ("Chicago" is a part of...):
IL; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State (a midwestern state in north-central United States)
Context examples:
"The two vital micronutrients are highly protective and they decrease blood pressure," Maria Argos, study author and assistant professor at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago.
(Micronutrients can counter lead effects in blood pressure, SciDev.Net)
A study by the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how these behaviors often inevitably evolve in species that form pair-bonds.
(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)
A team from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine investigated whether a common but harmless type of virus that people are frequently exposed to, called reoviruses, can prompt sensitivity to dietary proteins.
(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)
A national clinical research group - network of 29 university medical centers, over 185 community hospitals and more than almost 3000 physicians - sponsored by the NCI, with its Central Office headquartered at the University of Chicago, and its Statistical Center located at Duke University, founded in 1955 with a goal of bringing together clinical and laboratory research.
(Cancer and Leukemia Group B, NCI Thesaurus)
Janet Voight, a zoologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, told: "To my knowledge, there had been no reports of octopuses at this or comparable depths between Southern California and Peru. Never would I have anticipated such a dense cluster of these animals in the deep sea.
(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)
The researchers from the University of Chicago noticed that sleep deprivation has effects in the body similar to activation of the endocannabinoid (eCB) system, a key player in the brain’s regulation of appetite and energy levels.
(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)
People living in areas that restrict trans fats in foods had fewer hospitalizations for heart attack and stroke compared to residents in areas without restrictions, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine and Yale School of Medicine.
(Trans Fat Bans Lessen Health Risks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Scientists at the University of Chicago found that gut microbes from healthy human infant donors transplanted into mice protected animals exposed to milk from experiencing allergic reactions, while gut microbes transplanted from infants allergic to milk did not.
(Gut microbes from healthy infants block milk allergy development in mice, National Institutes of Health)
When we corrected the star's parameters, the sizes of its planets dropped, and we realized the outermost one was about the size of Earth and in the habitable zone, said Emily Gilbert, a graduate student at the University of Chicago.
(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)
A team led by Dr. Tao Pan at the University of Chicago and Dr. Jonathan Yewdell at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) set out to measure the accuracy of aminoacylation in living cells and animals.
(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)
