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DES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy
Synonyms:
DES; diethylstilbesterol; stilbesterol
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("DES" is a kind of...):
nonsteroid; nonsteroidal (an organic compound that does no contain a steroid)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
Synonyms:
DES; diethylstilbestrol; diethylstilboestrol; stilbestrol; stilboestrol
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("DES" is a kind of...):
estrogen; oestrogen (a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics)
Context examples:
The SI is maintained by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM, for Bureau International des Poids et Mesures), and is updated every few years by an international conference, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM, for Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures).
(International System of Units, NCI Thesaurus)
At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais—a charming place, for the wide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is bounded on one side by the sea, on the other by the grand drive, lined with hotels and villas, while beyond lie orange orchards and the hills.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines and INSERM in France, implanted the device into the brains of mice, and when the first signals of a seizure were detected, delivered a native brain chemical which stopped the seizure from progressing.
(Electronic device implanted in the brain could stop seizures, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
“It is their fitting death. Mais Le Seigneur d'Andelys, avec le sang des rois dans ses veins! C'est incroyable!”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The DES team developed new ways to detect the tiny lensing distortions of galaxy images.
(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)
Assuming an attitude, she began, "La Ligue des Rats: fable de La Fontaine."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“We have but to pass through the abbey grounds, along the armory wall, past the church of St. Remi, and so down the Rue des Apotres.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Scientists have new insights about these fundamental questions, thanks to an international collaboration of more than 400 scientists called the Dark Energy Survey (DES).
(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)
A page from the inner banqueting-hall had come with word that their master intended to drink wine at the lodgings of the Lord Chandos that night, and that he desired his squires to sleep at the hotel of the Half Moon on the Rue des Apotres.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So far, DES has found no evidence that the amount of dark energy has changed over time — a finding that is consistent with Albert Einstein's idea of a "cosmological constant."
(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)
