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RECYCLING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

employment; exercise; usage; use; utilisation; utilization (the act of using)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recycling"):

bottle collection (collecting bottles for reuse)

Derivation:

recycle (use again after processing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products

Example:

Every Monday, we put our recycling out on the curb for pick-up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb recycle

Credits

 Context examples: 

Proteasome inhibitors block cells’ normal protein recycling processes.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

This protein is involved in the recycling of adenine and AMP.

(Adenine Phosphoribosyltransferase, NCI Thesaurus)

That makes their nutrients, carbon and organic matter unavailable for surface recycling by other algae that need the sunlight available in the upper ocean.

(Algae-killing viruses spur nutrient recycling in oceans, National Science Foundation)

“The beauty of it is that it’s a recycling system,” said Joseph Woo, senior author of the study.

(Oxygen-Producing Bacteria Could Help Heart Attack Sufferers, VOA News)

In coral reef ecosystems, microorganisms are essential for recycling nutrients that are important to reef organisms - transforming bits of organic matter into nitrogen and phosphorus, for example.

(Bacteria living near coral reefs change in synchrony across distances, National Science Foundation)

This protein plays a role in tight junction disassembly, intestinal permeability, heme iron recycling, antimicrobial activity and the regulation of hydrogen peroxide catabolism.

(Haptoglobin, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of serotonin recycling enhances serotonergic function through serotonin accumulation in the synaptic cleft, resulting in long-term desensitization and downregulation of 5HT1 (serotonin) receptors and leading to symptomatic relief of depressive illness.

(Paroxetine hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Nitrogen oxides are one set of several gases that contribute to recycling OH back into the atmosphere, according to Julie Nicely at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)

Banning plastic bags and straws in coastal areas and putting in place stronger recycling programmes and beach clean-ups can help solve the problem.

(Plastic debris linked to coral disease, death, SciDev.Net)

Titan's methane does not appear to result from convection or plate tectonics recycling its ice shell.

(Ocean on Saturn moon could be as salty as the Dead Sea, NASA)