ADMINISTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does administer mean? 

• ADMINISTER (verb)
  The verb ADMINISTER has 5 senses:

1. work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of

2. perform (a church sacrament) ritually

3. administer or bestow, as in small portions

4. give or apply (medications)

5. direct the taking of

  Familiarity information: ADMINISTER used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMINISTER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they administer    ... he / she / it administers   
Past simple: administered   
Past participle: administered   
-ing form: administering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

administer; administrate

Context example:

she administers the funds

Hypernyms (to "administer" is one way to...):

care; deal; handle; manage (be in charge of, act on, or dispose of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):

pontificate (administer a pontifical office)

manage; oversee; superintend; supervise (watch and direct)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

administrable (capable of being administered or managed)

administration (a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs))

administration (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

administration (the tenure of a president)

administrative (of or relating to or responsible for administration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perform (a church sacrament) ritually

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

administer the last unction

Hypernyms (to "administer" is one way to...):

apply; give (give or convey physically)

"Administer" entails doing...:

execute; put to death (kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):

insufflate (breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Administer or bestow, as in small portions

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

administer; allot; deal; deal out; dish out; dispense; distribute; dole out; lot; mete out; parcel out; shell out

Context example:

the machine dispenses soft drinks

Hypernyms (to "administer" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):

allot; assign; portion (give out)

reallot (allot again)

deal (distribute cards to the players in a game)

apply; give (give or convey physically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Give or apply (medications)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

administer; dispense

Hypernyms (to "administer" is one way to...):

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

"Administer" entails doing...:

apply; give (give or convey physically)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):

transfuse (give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to)

digitalize (administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects)

inject; shoot (give an injection to)

give (give (as medicine))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

administration (the act of administering medication)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Direct the taking of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

administer an oath

Hypernyms (to "administer" is one way to...):

direct (be in charge of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Radiation therapy that is administered subsequent to the main treatment plan to minimize or prevent disease recurrence.

(Adjuvant Radiation Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Radiation therapy that is administered to augment or stimulate other treatment modalities or to minimize or prevent disease recurrence.

(Adjuvant Radiotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Chemotherapy that is administered subsequent to the main treatment plan to minimize or prevent disease recurrence.

(Adjuvant Chemotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Administered intratumorally, Ad/PNP expresses the enzyme PNP, which may catalyze systematically administrated fludarabine phosphate prodrug into its active form 2-fluoroadenine (F-Ade).

(Adenovirus-Encoding E.coli PNP, NCI Thesaurus)

An adenoviral vector engineered to express the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) gene, which, when administered in conjunction with a synthetic acyclic guanosine analogue, possesses potential antineoplastic activity.

(Adenoviral Vector Encoding HSV Thymidine Kinase, NCI Thesaurus)

Any therapy that is administered to augment or stimulate other treatment modalities or to minimize or prevent disease recurrence subsequent to the main treatment plan.

(Adjuvant therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

To dispense, apply, or tender something to another, such as administering a medicine.

(Administer, NCI Thesaurus)

When the allergen extract is administered in a series of increasing amounts the process is referred to as allergy therapy, immunotherapy or desensitization.

(Allergy Shot, NCI Thesaurus)

In the event that GVHD begins to develop, the chemical homodimerizer AP1903 can be administered, which binds to the FKBP12-F36V domain activating caspase 9.

(Allodepleted Haploidentical T Cells-expressing Inducible Caspase 9, NCI Thesaurus)

Any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation subject administered a pharmaceutical product and which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment.

(Adverse event, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)