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DENMARK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
Synonyms:
Danmark; Denmark; Kingdom of Denmark
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Scandinavian country; Scandinavian nation (any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia)
Meronyms (parts of "Denmark"):
Seeland; Sjaelland; Zealand (the largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen)
Copenhagen; Danish capital; Kobenhavn (the capital and largest city of Denmark; located on the island of Zealand)
Aarhus; Arhus (port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland)
Aalborg; Alborg (a city and port in northern Jutland)
Viborg (a town of Denmark in north central Jutland)
Frisian Islands (a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland)
Meronyms (members of "Denmark"):
Dane (a native or inhabitant of Denmark)
Domain member region:
battle of Jutland; Jutland (an indecisive naval battle in World War I (1916); fought between the British and German fleets off the northwestern coast of Denmark)
Holonyms ("Denmark" is a part of...):
Jutland; Jylland (peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany)
Holonyms ("Denmark" is a member of...):
Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)
NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)
Scandinavia (a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian)
Context examples:
A country in central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark.
(Germany, NCI Thesaurus)
In 2015, a team of scientists at the University of Cambridge and the State Serum Institute in Denmark measured the levels of four prenatal steroid hormones, including two known as androgens, in the amniotic fluid in the womb and discovered that they were higher in male foetuses who later developed autism.
(High levels of oestrogen in the womb linked to autism, University of Cambridge)
Data from national registers was linked with the DenHeart survey, which asked all patients discharged from April 2013 to April 2014 from five heart centres in Denmark to answer a questionnaire about their physical and mental health, lifestyle factors such as smoking, and social support.
(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In a study, a team of researchers at Cambridge’s Department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with a group at Aarhus University in Denmark, has shown a strong association between increased behavioural impulsivity in young adults and abnormalities in nerve cells in the putamen, a key brain region involved in addictive disorders.
(Young people at risk of addiction show differences in key brain region, University of Cambridge)
By reanalysing the 2017 data from the merger, we have now identified the signature of one heavy element in this fireball, strontium, proving that the collision of neutron stars creates this element in the Universe, says the study’s lead author Darach Watson from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)
The group, led by researchers from the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark worked for the past three years to verify their discovery, which they initially made in 2015 using NASA data.
(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)
Astronomers from the Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark discovered the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.
(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"We have never seen this before: These frogs make sounds that they cannot hear themselves," Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard from the University of Southern Denmark said.
(Tiny Brazilian Frogs Deaf to Own Calls, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The cormorant also has this ability, which new research from University of Southern Denmark (SDU) shows.
(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The study conducted by The Heart Center, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark, investigated whether poor social network was associated with worse outcomes in 13,463 patients with ischaemic heart disease, arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm), heart failure, or heart valve disease.
(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
