Library / English Dictionary

DOE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mature female of mammals of which the male is called 'buck'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

Synonyms:

Department of Energy; DOE; Energy; Energy Department

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "DOE"):

Department of Energy Intelligence; DOEI (an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“Is my father indeed come? How kind, how very kind! But where is he, why does he not hasten to me?”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I shall be very much surprised if it does not fetch our man.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The event does not generally interfere with usual daily activities.

(Mild Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)

The event does not generally interfere with usual activities of daily living.

(Mild Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A small amount of methemoglobin is present in the blood normally, but injury or toxic agents convert a larger proportion of hemoglobin into methemoglobin, which does not function reversibly as an oxygen carrier.

(Methemoglobinemia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A drug used to treat moderate to severe pain that does not respond to other types of pain medicine.

(Methadone hydrochloride, NCI Dictionary)

However, it does possess a high degree of structural similarity with that of chicken TIMP-3 (ChIMP-3).

(Metalloproteinase Inhibitor 3, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A change of cells to a form that does not normally occur in the tissue in which it is found.

(Metaplasia, NCI Dictionary)

Light microscopic examination does not show glomerular changes.

(Minimal Change Glomerulonephritis, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used to treat advanced prostate cancer that does not respond to hormones, adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, and advanced or chronic multiple sclerosis.

(Mitoxantrone, NCI Dictionary)