Definitions for chaperone
chap·er·one

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chaperon, chaperoneverb

   one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people

2. chaperone, chaperonverb

   accompany as a chaperone

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chaperonenoun

   An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.

2. chaperonenoun

   A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.

3. chaperoneverb

   to act as a chaperone

4. Etymology: See chaperon.

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1. chaperone

   A chaperone is an individual, often an older or responsible person, who accompanies and supervises another or a group, especially young people or individuals participating in particular activities or events, to ensure proper behavior or safety. In a biological context, chaperone refers to a type of protein that helps other proteins to fold correctly within a cell.

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1. Chaperone

   In molecular biology, molecular chaperones are proteins that assist the non-covalent folding or unfolding and the assembly or disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but do not occur in these structures when the structures are performing their normal biological functions having completed the processes of folding and/or assembly. The common perception that chaperones are concerned primarily with protein folding is incorrect. The first protein to be called a chaperone assists the assembly of nucleosomes from folded histones and DNA and such assembly chaperones, especially in the nucleus, are concerned with the assembly of folded subunits into oligomeric structures. One major function of chaperones is to prevent both newly synthesised polypeptide chains and assembled subunits from aggregating into nonfunctional structures. It is for this reason that many chaperones, but by no means all, are also heat shock proteins because the tendency to aggregate increases as proteins are denatured by stress. In this case, chaperones do not convey any additional steric information required for proteins to fold. However, some highly specific 'steric chaperones' do convey unique structural information onto proteins, which cannot be folded spontaneously. Such proteins violate Anfinsen's dogma.

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1. canephore

How to pronounce chaperone?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of chaperone in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of chaperone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of chaperone in a Sentence

1. Craig Garfield:

   New dads are coming into the health care system as a pediatric chaperone, this is an opportunity to talk about things that are important for dad’s health and the child’s health and to offer dads nutritional counseling and mental health education.

2. Ted Chen:

   We have lost some faith in this board doing the right thing, i want to make sure we have a chaperone in the boardroom.

3. Said Thompson:

   We are literally begging Ukrainians to chaperone these children [safely] so we do this legally, it’s hard when you’re dealing with life or death. You’re trying to move [vulnerable orphans] and you can’t get the system to allow you to help.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=chaperone
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chaperone
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=chaperone