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MODULATE

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

IPA (US): 

 Dictionary entry overview: What does modulate mean? 

MODULATE (verb)
  The verb MODULATE has 5 senses:

1. change the key of, in musicplay

2. vary the pitch of one's speechplay

3. fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate ofplay

4. adjust the pitch, tone, or volume ofplay

5. vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)play

  Familiarity information: MODULATE used as a verb is common.


 Dictionary entry details 


MODULATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they modulate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it modulates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: modulated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: modulated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: modulating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Change the key of, in music

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

modulate the melody

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

play; spiel (replay (as a melody))

Domain category:

music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They will modulate the duet

Derivation:

modulation (a musical passage moving from one key to another)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Vary the pitch of one's speech

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

inflect; modulate; tone

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

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

modulation (a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified)

modulation (rise and fall of the voice pitch)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

modulate; regulate

Context example:

modulate the pitch

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

adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

modulation (the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect))


Sense 4

Meaning:

Adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

modulation (a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified)


Sense 5

Meaning:

Vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

alter; change; vary (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

modulation ((electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase)


 Context examples 


A class of compounds that modulate the activity of mitotic enzymes.

(Mitotic Enzyme Modulator, NCI Thesaurus)

A class of compounds that modulate the activity of mitotic kinesins.

(Mitotic Kinesin Modulator, NCI Thesaurus)

Certain NSAIDs also may inhibit lipoxygenase enzymes or phospholipase C or may modulate T-cell function.

(Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drug, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Miltefosine targets cellular membranes, modulating cell membrane permeability, membrane lipid composition, phospholipid metabolism, and mitogenic signal transduction, resulting in cell differentiation and inhibition of cell growth.

(Miltefosine, NCI Thesaurus)

This leads to an alteration in protein synthesis, which modulates cell growth of reproductive tissues.

(Megestrol acetate, NCI Thesaurus)

T cell receptor activation induces expression of molecules like the CD40 ligand that modulate the B cell-T cell interaction.

(Antigen Dependent B Cell Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A non-viral expression system using multifunctional plasmid DNA to deliver disease-specific to immune cells and encode peptides/proteins to modulate various diseases.

(Biotope CD, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes calcium signal-modulating cyclophilin ligand protein, plays a role in the calcium signal transduction pathway.

(CAMLG wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Coregulators (coactivators or corepressors) are important in mediating these interactions and thereby modulate positive or negative receptor activity.

(Nuclear Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)

E1A C-terminus negatively modulates the N-terminus and interacts with CtBP.

(Oncogene E1A, NCI Thesaurus)



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