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CONCERT
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("concert" is a kind of...):
performance; public presentation (a dramatic or musical entertainment)
Domain member category:
dry run; rehearsal (a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concert"):
rock concert (a performance of rock music)
Derivation:
concertise; concertize (give concerts; perform in concerts)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Settle by agreement
Example:
concert one's differences
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "concert" is one way to...):
determine; settle; square off; square up (settle conclusively; come to terms)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "concert" is one way to...):
contrive; design; plan; project (make or work out a plan for; devise)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
GRKs attenuate GPCR signaling in concert with arrestins, proteins that bind GRK-phosphorylated GPCRs to disrupt interaction with G-protein and to terminate signaling.
(Attenuation of GPCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
When IL-33 reaches the gut, it works in concert with IL-25, a protein secreted by cells in the lining of the intestine, to activate type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s).
(Scratching the skin primes the gut for allergic reactions to food, mouse study suggests, National Institutes of Health)
These proteins, stress hormone receptors known as the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), act in concert to help support heart health.
(Healthy hearts need two proteins working together, National Institutes of Health)
I hope we shall have many sweet little concerts together.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Stimulation by LPS causes the accumulation of beta-catenin in the nucleus and the activation of genes in concert with the transcription factor LEF1.
(Beta-Catenin Accumulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
If we care to sing in tune, we may get up some kind of a concert; so come along with us.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Without previously communicating with me, he had, in concert with Elizabeth, arranged that Clerval should join me at Strasburgh.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Anne Mitchell had tried to put on a turban like mine, as I wore it the week before at the concert, but made wretched work of it—it happened to become my odd face, I believe, at least Tilney told me so at the time, and said every eye was upon me; but he is the last man whose word I would take.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In English, ‹a› by itself usually denotes the near-open front unrounded vowel (/æ/) as in pad, the open back unrounded vowel (/ɑː/) as in father, or, in concert with a later orthographic vowel, the diphthong /eɪ/ as in ace and major, due to effects of the great vowel shift.
(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Direct interactions between T cells and dendritic cells are enhanced through the expression of adhesion molecules and costimulatory receptors CD80 and CD86 expressed by mature dendritic cells activate T cells in concert with the recognition of antigen/MHC by the T cell receptor.
(Dendritic Cell Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
