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SAN FRANCISCO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)
Meronyms (parts of "San Francisco"):
Golden Gate Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Golden Gate)
Nob Hill (a fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco)
San Francisco Bay (a bay of the Pacific in western California)
Holonyms ("San Francisco" is a part of...):
CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)
Context examples:
As one of the world's leading "planet hunters," San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane focuses on finding habitable zones, areas where water could exist in a liquid state on a planet's surface if there's sufficient atmospheric pressure.
(Searching for Life on Wolf 1061 Exoplanet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The researchers, from the University of California, San Francisco; the University of California, Santa Cruz; Indiana University; Washington University School of Medicine; and Harvard Medical School, published their findings in a recent issue of the journal Cell.
(Human Body Microbes Make Antibiotics, Study Finds, NCCAM)
A team of researchers led by Dr. Shingo Kajimura at the University of California, San Francisco, set out to determine the nature of brown and beige fat from adult humans, and to better characterize it at a cellular level.
(Insights into Energy-Burning Fat Cells, NIH)
To search for a potential pain reliever with fewer side effects than current opioids, a research team from the University of North Carolina and the University of California, San Francisco, screened more than 3 million compounds for those that may be able to turn on the Gi-mediated pathway, but not beta-arrestin.
(Designing more effective opioids, NIH)
A team at the University of California, San Francisco, led by Dr. Grant Dorsey and colleagues in Kampala, Uganda, compared drugs to prevent infant malaria in areas with a high risk year round and high rates of drug resistance.
(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)
If other studies confirm these findings, it might suggest that permitting allergen exposures, with increased exposure to certain microbes or to their sources, might be more successful in reducing asthma risk, says Dr. Homer Boushey of the University of California, San Francisco, another principal investigator.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
A team from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and from the University of California, San Francisco, set out to examine the relationship between an infant’s gut microbiota and subsequent development of allergy and asthma.
(Infant gut microbes linked to allergy, asthma risk, NIH)
If greenhouse gas concentrations remain on their current trajectory, melting ice from Greenland alone could contribute as much as 24 feet to global sea level rise by the year 3000, which would place much of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans and other coastal cities underwater.
(New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in the future, National Science Foundation)
A team led by Steven Finkbeiner, M.D., Ph.D., director and senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, and professor of neurology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, explored whether computers could be trained to identify structures in unstained cells.
(Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells, National Institutes of Health)
Once he made a trip to San Francisco to look up the "real dirt."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
