Definizione monolingua

chaperone

chaperone (third-person singular simple present chaperones, present participle chaperoning, simple past and past participle chaperoned)

1. to act as a chaperone
   • 2006, The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.

     Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students

chaperone (plural chaperones)

1. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
2. (biology) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.

Definizione dizionario chaperone

accompagnare

accompagnatrice

Altri significati:

an older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman

to act as a chaperone

An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.

(biology) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.