TROJAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trojan mean? 

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

1. a native of ancient Troy

2. a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful

  Familiarity information: TROJAN used as a noun is rare.

• TROJAN (adjective)
  The adjective TROJAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the ancient city of Troy or its inhabitants

  Familiarity information: TROJAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROJAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native of ancient Troy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dardan; Dardanian; Trojan

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

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

Holonyms ("Trojan" is a member of...):

Ilion; Ilium; Troy (an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

trojan; trojan horse

Context example:

when he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse

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

malevolent program (a computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effects)

• TROJAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the ancient city of Troy or its inhabitants

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Trojan cities

Pertainym:

Troy (an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War)

Derivation:

Troy (an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War)

 Context examples 

Teach workers not to open attachments or click on links from people they don’t know, lest a Trojan horse bring in a terrible virus to contaminate your entire network of computers.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The researchers have used exosomes as “Trojan horses” to deliver palladium (Pd) catalysts into cancer cells.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)

He had lain like a Trojan behind his mattress in the gallery; he had followed every order silently, doggedly, and well; he was the oldest of our party by a score of years; and now, sullen, old, serviceable servant, it was he that was to die.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Using Trojan horses to combat cancer from within the tumour cells themselves without damaging healthy tissues is the aim of this new tool created by researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA), the University of Zaragoza, and the Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)

The authors of the study have found a way to induce the synthesis of catalysts (Pd nanosheets with a thickness of just over one nanometre) inside tumour cell exosomes without disturbing the properties of their membranes—thus converting the exosomes into Trojan horses capable of delivering the catalyst to the progenitor cancer cells.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)