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EXPORT

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country

Synonyms:

export; exportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)

Antonym:

import (commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country)

Derivation:

export (sell or transfer abroad)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to spread in another part of the world

Example:

The Russians exported Marxism to Africa

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "export" is one way to...):

distribute; spread (distribute or disperse widely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "export" is one way to...):

transfer (move from one place to another)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

import (transfer (electronic data) into a database or document)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Sell or transfer abroad

Example:

we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "export" is one way to...):

merchandise; trade (engage in the trade of)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "export"):

smuggle (import or export without paying customs duties)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue export the movie

Antonym:

import (bring in from abroad)

Derivation:

export (commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country)

exportation (the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country)

exportation (commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country)

exporter (a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale))

exporting (the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Ubiquitination, nuclear export, and degradation are mechanisms commonly used to rapidly reduce the concentration of cell-cycle control proteins.

(G1/S Checkpoint Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It is involved in the protein export process from the cells.

(Cytoplasmic RNA, NCI Thesaurus)

Barrett points out that the Inuit of the region favoured female walruses when hunting, so the prevalence of females in Greenland’s later exports could imply a growing Norse reliance on Inuit supply.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

As a result, this agent, via the approach of selective inhibition of nuclear export (SINE), restores endogenous tumor suppressing processes to selectively eliminate tumor cells while sparing normal cells.

(CRM1 Nuclear Export Inhibitor KPT-330, NCI Thesaurus)

The risks of disease transmission through açaí consumption outside of the northern region are low, because juice exported to other regions or countries undergo mandatory pasteurization.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

Its seeds are a major export from many producing countries in Central and South America, Africa, and Asia — but every year, 30% to 40% of pre-harvest yield is lost to diseases.

(New way to identify disease-resistant genes in chocolate-producing trees, National Science Foundation)

Six distinct secretion systems have been shown to mediate protein export through the inner and outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria.

(Bacterial Secretion System Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

This protein plays a role in the export of cyclic nucleotides.

(Multidrug Resistance-Associated Protein 5, NCI Thesaurus)

Citrulline is exported into the cytoplasm where another nitrogen for urea is acquired from aspartate, followed by the release of fumarate to form the amino acid arginine.

(Feeding Amino Groups into the Urea Cycle, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In Namibia, an example mentioned in the study, most of the fish is caught by local fleets, but then immediately exported, while 47 per cent of the country’s coastal population suffers from severe iron deficiency.

(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)