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Definition of Chaperone

1. Noun. One who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people.

Definition of Chaperone

1. Noun. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman. ¹

2. Noun. (biology) 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. ¹

3. Verb. to act as a chaperone ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chaperone

1. [v -ONED, -ONING, -ONES]

Medical Definition of Chaperone

1. Cytoplasmic proteins of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes that bind to nascent or unfolded polypeptides and ensure correct folding or transport. Chaperone proteins do not covalently bind to their targets and do not form part of the finished product. Heat-shock proteins are an important sub set of chaperones. Three major families are recognised, the chaperonins (groEL and hsp60), the hsp70 family and the hsp90 family. Outside these major families are other proteins with similar functions including nucleoplasmin, secB and T-cell receptor associated protein. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaperone

Literary usage of Chaperone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Etiquette: An Answer to the Riddle When? Where? How? by Agnes H. Morton (1899)
"THE AMERICAN Chaperone The question of the chaperone in America is peculiarly perplexing. ... In the former case she is constantly attended by a chaperone. ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1864)
"... find “ chaperone “ in any book published ten, or even five, years ago PI doubt it. It is an ignorant barbarism, and corresponds exactly to the “ chemis ..."

3. Social Customs by Florence Howe Hall (1887)
"THE Chaperone. " YOUNG people think that old people are fools, but old people know that young people are fools," says the rather sour old adage. ..."

4. Etiquette: Good Manners for All People, Especially for Those "who Dwell by Agnes H. Morton (1892)
"In the former case she is constantly attended by a chaperone. In the latter case she is merely a young person, a working girl, for whom " society " makes no ..."

5. A Little Book of Missouri Verse: Choice Selections from Missouri Verse-writers by James Samuel Snoddy (1897)
"Since that time she has been on the editorial staff of the Chaperone Magazine, St. Louis. Some of her best verses will be published for the first time in ..."

6. Favorite Poems from the Best Authors: Humorous Poems by Amy Neally (1894)
"My chaperone. Who steals in short our joys away? Who is it we must all obey? Who rules us with a tyrant's sway? My chaperone. UNKNOWN. ..."

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