CO-AUTHOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does co-author mean? 

• CO-AUTHOR (verb)
  The verb CO-AUTHOR has 1 sense:

1. be a co-author on (a book, a paper)

  Familiarity information: CO-AUTHOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CO-AUTHOR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they co-author    ... he / she / it co-authors   
Past simple: co-authored   
Past participle: co-authored   
-ing form: co-authoring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be a co-author on (a book, a paper)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "co-author" is one way to...):

author (be the author of)

Domain category:

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he co-author his major works over a short period of time?

 Context examples 

The scientists fed the genetically modified corn to chickens at Rutgers University in order to show it was nutritious for them, co-author Joachim Messing said.

(US Researchers Genetically Modify Corn to Boost Nutritional Value, VOA News)

The possibility that intermediate mass black holes exist but are currently hidden from our view is both tantalizing and frustrating, according to Deidre Shoemaker of Georgia Tech, a co-author of the paper.

(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)

Pepper grafting could become an environmentally friendly adaptation strategy, says Angeles Calatayud, a researcher at the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias in Valencia, Spain, and co-author of the paper.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

MAMBO-9's light was detected ten years ago by study co-author Manuel Aravena using technologies in Spain and France.

(ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight, National Science Foundation)

The device, which was tested experimentally by Lepage’s co-authors from the Institut Néel, measures just a few millionths of a metre long.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)

Badyaev and co-authors showed that the way biochemical processes are structured in birds holds the key to understanding how species gain and lose their reliance on others in their communities.

(Colorful bird feathers offer evolutionary clues, National Science Foundation)

Peters and his co-authors, UC Santa Barbara marine ecologists Dan Reed and Deron Burkepile, saw the local community of sea-bottom invertebrates as a likely additional nitrogen source.

(In search of an undersea kelp forest's missing nitrogen, National Science Foundation)

At those small scales, according to University of Utah chemist and study co-author Valeria Molinero, the transition between ice and water gets a little fuzzy.

(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)

Lomas and his co-authors found that phosphate in the surface ocean is less abundant than traditional measurements and models suggest.

(Study reveals new patterns of key ocean nutrient, National Science Foundation)

"There is a speed limit in the study that shows that an ice shelf can't collapse ridiculously fast," said co-author Alison Banwell, a glaciology researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)