Usually means: Protein assisting other proteins' folding.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaperone: Merriam-Webster
  2. chaperone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chaperone: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chaperone: Vocabulary.com
  5. Chaperone, chaperone: Wordnik
  6. chaperone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. chaperone: Wiktionary
  8. chaperone: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. chaperone: Dictionary.com
  10. chaperone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Chaperone (clinical), Chaperone (protein), Chaperone (social), Chaperone, The Chaperone (Seinfeld), The Chaperone (film), The Chaperone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. chaperone: Rhymezone
  13. chaperone: FreeDictionary.org
  14. chaperone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. chaperone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. chaperone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaperone: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaperone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaperone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Chaperone: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. chaperone: Medical dictionary
  6. Chaperone: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
noun:  (biochemistry) 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.
noun:  (UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
verb:  To act as a chaperone.
verb:  (UK, business) To work as a chaperone.

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