EXPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does export mean? 

• EXPORT (noun)
  The noun EXPORT has 1 sense:

1. commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country

  Familiarity information: EXPORT used as a noun is very rare.

• EXPORT (verb)
  The verb EXPORT has 3 senses:

1. sell or transfer abroad

2. transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs

3. cause to spread in another part of the world

  Familiarity information: EXPORT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

export; exportation

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

commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)

Antonym:

import (commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country)

Derivation:

export (sell or transfer abroad)

• EXPORT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they export ... he / she / it exports
Past simple: exported   
Past participle: exported   
-ing form: exporting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell or transfer abroad

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance

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

merchandise; trade (engage in the trade of)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

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

smuggle (import or export without paying customs duties)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue export the movie

Antonym:

import (bring in from abroad)

Derivation:

export (commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country)

exportation (the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country)

exportation (commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country)

exporter (a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale))

exporting (the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

transfer (move from one place to another)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

import (transfer (electronic data) into a database or document)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to spread in another part of the world

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The Russians exported Marxism to Africa

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

distribute; spread (distribute or disperse widely)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

Signal-mediated nuclear import and export proceed through the nuclear pore complex (NPC), which is comprised of approximately 50 unique proteins collectively known as nucleoporins.

(Nucleoporin, NCI Thesaurus)

Signal-mediated nuclear import and export proceed through the nuclear pore complex (NPC).

(Nuclear Pore Complex, NCI Thesaurus)

A category specifying that a product is marketed for export only.

(Marketed for Export Only, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with the inaccurate outcome of a measurement/values/data obtained from the device being different from displayed, printed, stored, or exported measurements/values/data.

(Improper Medical Device Output, Food and Drug Administration)

NPC targeting of NUP96 and NUP98 is cleavage dependent, which may regulate assembly of the NPC, comprised of nearly fifty nucleoporins involved in signal-mediated nuclear import and export of protein and RNA.

(Nucleoporin 98kD, NCI Thesaurus)

This may inhibit the phosphorylation of Akt, upregulate MAPK, inhibit NF-kb activation and inhibit FGF-2 export and may downregulate mTOR thereby inhibiting p70S6K and S6 protein expression.

(Oleandrin, NCI Thesaurus)

Great news this for that fierce old country, whose trade for a generation had been war, her exports archers and her imports prisoners.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

LEE-encoded adhesin or intimin (Eae) is exported via the general secretory pathway to the periplasm, where it is inserted into the outer membrane.

(Pathogenic Escherichia coli Infection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

E1B is implicated in selective nuclear export of viral late mRNAs and inhibition of export of cellular mRNAs.

(Oncogene E1B, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the mediation of nuclear export.

(Exportin-1, NCI Thesaurus)