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PRODUCTIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by great fruitfulness
Example:
rich soil
Synonyms:
fat; fertile; productive; rich
Classified under:
Similar:
fruitful (productive or conducive to producing in abundance)
Derivation:
productiveness (the quality of being productive or having the power to produce)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
Example:
a productive collaboration
Classified under:
Similar:
amentaceous; amentiferous ((of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins)
arable; cultivable; cultivatable; tillable ((of farmland) capable of being farmed productively)
fecund; fertile; prolific (intellectually productive)
fur-bearing (of animals having fur (especially of commercial quality))
nut-bearing ((of shrubs or trees) producing nuts)
oil-bearing (containing oil)
rich (very productive)
Also:
creative; originative (having the ability or power to create)
fertile (capable of reproducing)
fruitful (productive or conducive to producing in abundance)
profitable (yielding material gain or profit)
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
Antonym:
unproductive (not producing or capable of producing)
Derivation:
productiveness; productivity (the quality of being productive or having the power to produce)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having the ability to produce or originate
Example:
generative forces
Synonyms:
generative; productive
Classified under:
Adjectives
Derivation:
productiveness (the quality of being productive or having the power to produce)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Yielding positive results
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
Derivation:
productiveness (the quality of being productive or having the power to produce)
Context examples:
The letter F—had been likewise invariably brought forward, and found productive of such countless jokes, that its character as the wittiest letter in the alphabet had been long established with Elinor.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The star, CI Tau, is located about 500 light-years away in a highly-productive stellar ‘nursery’ region of the galaxy.
(Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form, University of Cambridge)
Their visits to Mrs. Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
AHSP blocks precipitation of alpha-units, and promotes the formation of normal productive alpha-beta tetramers (HbA).
(Hemoglobin Chaperone Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
At the same time, remote sensing scientists have a space-based way to track when vegetation greens up and how productive it is compared to drought or wet years. the health of vegetation.
(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)
Productive folding of the polypeptides to which the glycans are attached requires the services of an ER lectin chaperone called calnexin (CNX) that recognize the Glc1Man9GlcNAc2 oligosaccharide and assists the folding of newly synthesized glycoproteins.
(Endoplasmic Reticulum Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Given that more than 400 subglacial lakes and numerous rivers and streams are thought to exist beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, such ecosystems may be widespread and may influence the chemical and biological composition of the Southern Ocean, the vast and biologically productive sea that encircles the continent.
(800 meters beneath Antarctic ice sheet, subglacial lake holds viable microbial ecosystems, NSF)
After first observing these galaxies a few years ago, astronomers proposed that they must have been created from hyper-productive precursor galaxies, which is the only way so many stars could have formed so quickly.
(Stunning Star Birth in Earliest Galaxies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It was late before the Miss Bertrams and the two gentlemen came in, and their ramble did not appear to have been more than partially agreeable, or at all productive of anything useful with regard to the object of the day.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
However, recent studies have demonstrated that productive signaling via the BCR is in fact dependent on tyrosine phosphorylation of one or more adapter proteins that play a crucial role in recruitment and organization of effector proteins at the plasma membrane.
(BCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
