chaperone

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/    美 /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
  2. 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. An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit. UK
动词 v.
  1. To act as a chaperone.
    — They played you off very cunning, Eliza. If it had been only one of them, you could have nailed him. But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.
  2. To work as a chaperone. UK

词形变化

chaperones plural chaperones present,singular,third-person chaperoning participle,present chaperoned participle,past chaperoned past

词汇关系

衍生词
autochaperone bichaperone chaperokine chaperome chaperoneless chaperoneship chaperonic chaperonin chaperonopathy cochaperone heterochaperone metallochaperone molybdochaperone multichaperone pharmacochaperone superchaperone

词源

词源 1
See chaperon.
词源 2
See chaperon.
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