PARTICIPANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does participant mean? 

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

1. someone who takes part in an activity

2. a person who participates in or is skilled at some game

  Familiarity information: PARTICIPANT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTICIPANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who takes part in an activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

participant; player

Context example:

he was a major player in setting up the corporation

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

associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)

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

discussant (a participant in a formal discussion)

bride (a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony)

bridegroom; groom (a man participant in his own marriage ceremony)

masker; masquer; masquerader (a participant in a masquerade)

partaker; sharer (someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share)

retreatant (a participant in a religious retreat)

attendant; attendee; attender; meeter (a person who is present and participates in a meeting)

Derivation:

participate (become a participant; be involved in)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who participates in or is skilled at some game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

participant; player

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

contestant (a person who participates in competitions)

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

most valuable player; MVP (the player judged to be the most important to the sport)

volleyball player (someone who plays the game of volleyball)

playmaker (a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score)

pool player (someone who shoots pool)

scorer (a player who makes a score in a game or contest)

seed; seeded player (one of the outstanding players in a tournament)

server ((court games) the player who serves to start a point)

shooter ((sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket))

soccer player (an athlete who plays soccer)

stringer (a member of a squad on a team)

tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)

lacrosse player (an athlete who plays lacrosse)

hockey player; ice-hockey player (an athlete who plays hockey)

grandmaster (a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge)

golf player; golfer; linksman (someone who plays the game of golf)

football player; footballer (an athlete who plays American football)

dart player (someone who plays the game of darts)

chess player (someone who plays the game of chess)

card player (someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games)

bowler (a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins)

billiard player (someone who plays billiards)

ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)

 Context examples 

The researchers found large variations in how many mixtures the 26 participants could distinguish.

(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)

Specifies whether an individual who is or becomes a participant in a research study and has no significant health-related issues including those related to the condition being tested.

(Healthy Subject Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

The intended quantity of male participants.

(Planned Number of Male Subjects, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies whether the participant had abstained from eating when the specimen is obtained.

(Performed Specimen Collection Fasting Status Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

Human subject means an individual who is or becomes a participant in research, either as a recipient of the test article or as a control.

(Human Study Subject, Food and Drug Administration)

An individual who is or becomes a participant in a research study and has no significant health-related issues.

(Healthy Subject, NCI Thesaurus)

The found that 257 participants (30%) participants were in remission at five-year follow-up.

(Type 2 diabetes remission possible with ‘achievable’ weight loss, University of Cambridge)

This integral membrane protein may be a new participant in the calcium signal transduction pathway and implicates cyclophilin B in calcium signaling.

(Calcium Modulating Ligand, NCI Thesaurus)

A research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes.

(Clinical trial, NCI Thesaurus)

A study in which participants are examined at only a single time for characteristics of a disease.

(Cross-Sectional Study, NCI Thesaurus)