ADAPTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adapter mean? 

• ADAPTER (noun)
  The noun ADAPTER has 2 senses:

1. a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance

2. device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible

  Familiarity information: ADAPTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADAPTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adapter; arranger; transcriber

Hypernyms ("adapter" is a kind of...):

musician (artist who composes or conducts music as a profession)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adapter"):

orchestrator (an arranger who writes for orchestras)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

adapter; adaptor

Hypernyms ("adapter" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Derivation:

adapt (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose)

 Context examples 

Receptor-bound b-arrestins also act as adapter proteins, binding to components of the clathrin endocytic machinery including clathrin, b2-adaptin (AP-2).

(GPCR Desensitization Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Upon tyrosine phosphorylation, GAB2 interacts with SHP2 tyrosine phosphatase and GRB2 adapter protein.

(GRB2-Associated Binding Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Grb10 belongs to a small family of adapter proteins that are known to interact with a number of receptor tyrosine kinases and signaling molecules.

(Growth Factor Receptor-Bound Protein 10, NCI Thesaurus)

Member of the GRB7 family of adapter proteins; identified as a partner of the insulin receptor where it acts as a modulator of insulin signaling.

(Growth Factor Receptor-Bound Protein 14, NCI Thesaurus)

Adapter molecule crk (304 aa, ~34 kDa) is encoded by the human CRK gene.

(Adapter Molecule crk, NCI Thesaurus)

Apo3L recruits initiator caspase 8 via the adapter protein FADD.

(DR3 and DR4/5 Mediated Apoptosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The SLP-65/BLNK adapter protein has recently been shown to play a crucial role in recruitment and activation of key signal transducing effector proteins in the B cell.

(BCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

BTB/POZ domain-containing adapter for CUL3-mediated RhoA degradation protein 2 (316 aa, ~36 kDa) is encoded by the human TNFAIP1 gene.

(BTB/POZ Domain-Containing Adapter For CUL3-Mediated RhoA Degradation Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes adapter molecule crk protein, plays a role in both the progression of tyrosine kinase signaling and the suppression of cellular transformation.

(CRK wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Some of the constituents of focal adhesions participate in the structural link between membrane receptors and the actin cytoskeleton, while others are signaling molecules, including different protein kinases and phosphatases, their substrates, and various adapter proteins.

(Focal Adhesion Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)