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TURNED ON
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling great sexual desire
Example:
feeling horny
Synonyms:
aroused; horny; randy; ruttish; steamy; turned on
Classified under:
Similar:
sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)
Context examples:
The process by which a gene gets turned on in a cell to make RNA and proteins.
(Gene expression, NCI Dictionary)
She turned on the step and looked down upon him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The genes that are turned on by p53 constitute effectors of this second cascade.
(G2/M Checkpoint Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Holmes turned on the step and held up something in his hand.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Chromatin, the complex of DNA and protein that forms chromosomes, also affects how genes are expressed (turned on and off).
(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)
The researchers have found that it did not matter whether a person's smartphone was turned on or off, or whether it was lying face up or face down on a desk.
(Presence of Smartphone Reduces Brain Power, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Juno's visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit around the largest planetary inhabitant of our solar system.
(Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View, NASA)
Downstream protein kinases such as PKA and PKC turned on by GPCR signaling can phosphorylate the activated GPCR and other GPCRs to prevent further signaling.
(Attenuation of GPCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
One possibility for how this change might occur is that pregnancy alters the organ’s epigenome, the collection of chemical markers that affect how genes are turned on and off, or expressed.
(Mammary Gland May Have Epigenetic Memory, NIH)
When they turned on neurons that produce the chemical octopamine, that activation canceled out the effect of L. brevis on the germ-free flies.
(Gut bacteria may control movement, National Institutes of Health)
