PROMOTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does promoter mean? 

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

1. someone who is an active supporter and advocate

2. a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments

  Familiarity information: PROMOTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROMOTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is an active supporter and advocate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

booster; plugger; promoter

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

adman; advertiser; advertizer (someone whose business is advertising)

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

barker (someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers)

Derivation:

promote (make publicity for; try to sell (a product))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sponsor who books and stages public entertainments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

impresario; promoter; showman

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

booker; booking agent (someone who engages a person or company for performances)

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

exhibitioner; exhibitor; shower (someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see)

organ-grinder (a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy)

porn merchant; pornographer (someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores)

Instance hyponyms:

Barnum; P. T. Barnum; Phineas Taylor Barnum (United States showman who popularized the circus (1810-1891))

Buffalo Bill; Buffalo Bill Cody; Cody; William F. Cody; William Frederick Cody (United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917))

Diaghilev; Sergei Diaghilev; Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929))

D'Oyly Carte; Richard D'Oyly Carte (English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901))

Hurok; Sol Hurok; Solomon Hurok (United States impresario who was born in Russia (1888-1974))

Charles Ringling; Ringling (United States showman whose song-and-dance troop evolved into a circus (1863-1926))

 Context examples 

This protein plays a role in both transcriptional regulation and gene promoter binding.

(Nuclear Transcription Factor Y Subunit Alpha, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal inversion within 15q21.2-q21.3 and places the promoter for the CGNL1 gene near the 5' end of the CYP19A1 gene.

(CGNL1/CYP19A1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

ETS1 encodes 42-52 kD nuclear phosphoprotein transcription factors that interact with purine-rich promoter/enhancer sequences in the TCRA gene.

(Oncogene ETS, NCI Thesaurus)

The most well-characterized in this regard is the promoter of the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) gene.

(Androgen Response Element, NCI Thesaurus)

This nuclear protein is a DNA-binding bZIP transcription factor that, as a homodimer, recognizes common motifs in both the promoter (CCAAT sequence) and enhancer (core homology sequence) regions of genes.

(CCAAT/Enhancer Binding Protein Alpha, NCI Thesaurus)

Recruitment of CARM1 to the promoter region by binding to coactivators increases histone methylation and makes promoter regions more accessible for transcription.

(CARM1 Transcription Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Some of the cell cycle-related molecules show evidence of epigenetic modulation through aberrant promoter hypermethylation in invasive bladder cancer.

(Bladder Cancer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(3;13)(q27;q14) which fuses the promoter region of the BCL6 gene near the 5' end of the LCP1 gene.

(BCL6/LCP1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Proteins that regulate transcription via interaction with chromatin and basal transcription machinery at the promoter regions of genes.

(Nuclear Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)

Three transcripts have been identified for this gene as a result of alternate promoter utilization and alternative splicing.

(Collagen XVIII (Alpha 1), NCI Thesaurus)