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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TROPISM

From Greek tropos a turn.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TROPISM

tropism  [ˈtrəʊpɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TROPISM

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adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tropism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TROPISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tropism

Tropism

A tropism is a biological phenomenon, indicating growth or turning movement of a biological organism, usually a plant, in response to an environmental stimulus. In tropisms, this response is dependent on the direction of the stimulus. Viruses and other pathogens also affect what is called "host tropism" or "cell tropism" in which case tropism refers to the way in which different viruses/pathogens have evolved to preferentially target specific host species, or specific cell types within those species. Tropisms are usually named for the stimulus involved and may be either positive or negative. Tropisms are typically associated with plants. Where an organism is capable of directed physical movement, movement or activity in response to a specific stimulus is more likely to be regarded by behaviorists as a taxis or a kinesis. In English, the word tropism is used, in a sometimes derisive way, to indicate an action done without cognitive thought: However, "tropism" in this sense has a proper, although non-scientific, meaning as an innate tendency, natural inclination, or propensity to act in a certain manner.

Definition of tropism in the English dictionary

The definition of tropism in the dictionary is the response of an organism, esp a plant, to an external stimulus by growth in a direction determined by the stimulus.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TROPISM


aerotropism
ˌɛərəʊˈtrəʊpɪzəm
allotropism
ˈæləˌtrəʊpɪzəm
apheliotropism
æpˌhiːlɪˈɒtrəˌpɪzəm
apogeotropism
ˌæpədʒɪˈɒtrəˌpɪzəm
atropism
ˈætrəpɪzəm
diageotropism
ˌdaɪədʒɪˈɒtrəˌpɪzəm
diaphototropism
ˌdaɪəfəʊtəʊˈtrəʊpɪzəm
escapism
ɪˈskeɪpɪzəm
gamotropism
ˌɡæməˈtrəʊpɪzəm
geotropism
dʒɪˈɒtrəˌpɪzəm
haptotropism
ˌhæptəʊˈtrəʊpɪzəm
heliotropism
ˌhiːlɪˈɒtrəˌpɪzəm
orthotropism
ɔːˈθɒtrəˌpɪzəm
phototropism
ˌfəʊtəʊˈtrəʊpɪzəm
priapism
ˈpraɪəˌpɪzəm
rheotropism
rɪˈɒtrəˌpɪzəm
theanthropism
θiːˈænθrəˌpɪzəm
thermotropism
ˌθɜːməʊˈtrəʊpɪzəm
thigmotropism
ˌθɪɡməʊˈtrəʊpɪzəm
utopism
juːˈtəʊpɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TROPISM

tropic of Capricorn
tropical
tropical depression
tropical medicine
tropical month
tropical storm
tropical year
tropicalisation
tropicalise
tropicality
tropicalization
tropicalize
tropically
tropicbird
tropics
tropin
tropine
tropismatic
tropist
tropistic

WORDS THAT END LIKE TROPISM

apism
caesaropapism
chemotropism
diaheliotropism
diatropism
galvanotropism
hemitropism
hydrotropism
isotropism
malapropism
metopism
mugwumpism
nyctitropism
plagiotropism
pleiotropism
psilanthropism
sinapism
stereotropism
therianthropism
trophotropism

Synonyms and antonyms of tropism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tropism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TROPISM

Find out the translation of tropism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tropism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tropism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

取向
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tropismo
570 millions of speakers

English

tropism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tropism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tropism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тропизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tropismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনৈচ্ছিক ক্রিয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tropisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tropis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tropismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

向性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

굴곡 운동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tropis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ái tính
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உயிர்ப்பொருள் அசைவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उष्ण कटिबंधातील एक औषध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yönelim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tropismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tropizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тропізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tropism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τροπισμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tropism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tropism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tropisme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tropism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TROPISM»

The term «tropism» is regularly used and occupies the 68.183 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TROPISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tropism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TROPISM»

Discover the use of tropism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tropism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Clinical Anatomy of the Lumbar Spine and Sacrum
... level may not be equal. Thus, the joints may be asymmetrically orientated, a condition referred to as articular tropism. The incidence of tropism is about 20% at all lumbar levels,48,66 but may be as high as 30% at the lumbosacral level ...
Nikolai Bogduk, 2005
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Experiments with Plants
LESSON 14 Two Tropism Experiments (Days 12, 13, or 14) Think and Wonder Today, you will work with your classmates on an experiment exploring two additional characteristics of plants — phototropism and geotropism. Before you begin ...
‎1992
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Receptor-independent/-associated viral tropism
As parasitic entities, viruses have to compromise with numbers of positive and negative factors present in target cells for their survival. In the absence of an appropriate interaction with cells, they do not replicate at all. Viral tropism therefore can ...
Akio Adachi
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Molecular Aspects of Host-Pathogen Interactions
D. J. EVANS AMS, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 228, Reading, Berks RG6 5AJ, UK Virus tropism can be defined at two levels: host tropism being the range of host species that a virus can productively infect, and tissue ...
Society for General Microbiology. Symposium, M. A. McCrae, 1997
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Human Cytomegalovirus
The finding that extended propagation in fibroblasts regularly results in loss of endothelial cell tropism, whereas propagation in endothelial cells maintains a broad cell tropism of the respective strain (Waldman et al. 1991), made the issue of ...
Thomas E. Shenk, Mark F. Stinski, 2008
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HIV-1 Env Sequence and Structure Contribute to Both ...
5.1) suggests multiple factors in coreceptor switching: (1) V3-specific mutations that are advantageous for X4-tropism manifest themselves in the population, other mutations involved in the coreceptor switch are also generated throughout env; ...
Milloni Balwantkumar Patel, 2007
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Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to ...
Figure 5.13 Roulette wheel model of random action selection (from Agah 1994, reproduced with permission of author) The larger the magnitude of the tropism value, the more likely it is that the robot will perform the action. The entity, its state , ...
George A. Bekey, 2005
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Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychological Terms
It is in the locomotor behaviour of worms, insects, and fishes that the characteristic of tropism are found embedded. By Tropism is generally meant the automatic locomotion of the body toward or away from any stimulus- energy like light, heat, ...
J. C. Banerjee, 1994
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Understanding Receptor Specificity Through the Massively ...
Tropism switching in Bordetella bacteriophage defines a family of diversity- generating retroelements. Nature 431, 476-481. Emsley, P., Charles, I. G., Fairweather, N. F., and Isaacs, N. W. (1996). Structure of Bordetella pertussis virulence factor ...
Jason L. Miller, 2006
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Influenza A Virus Cell Tropism and Cytokine Response in ...
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Influenza A virus cell tropism and cytokine response in primary tracheal epithelial cell cultures By Celeste Marie Newby Doctor of Philosophy in Biology and Biomedical Sciences (Molecular Microbiology ...
Celeste Marie Newby, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TROPISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tropism is used in the context of the following news items.
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A short-term Borrelia burgdorferi infection model identifies tissue …
This model has shown that the fibronectin binding protein BB0347 has a tropism for joint tissue. We have also shown an importance of the integrin binding ... «ProHealth, Jul 15»
2
overshadowing its neighbours
Called Tropism of Wildflower, the Seoul building takes inspiration from the biological phenomenon of phototropism in plants, whereby they turn in response to ... «Dezeen, Jun 15»
3
VP2 capsid domain of the H-1 parvovirus determines susceptibility …
We hypothesize that VP2, a major capsid protein of H-1 virus, determines H-1-specific tropism. To assess this, we constructed chimeric H-1 viruses expressing ... «Nature.com, Apr 15»
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Population Genetics Technologies to Open US Space, Aims for …
For instance, Monogram Bioscience's Trofile tropism assay, which uses Sanger sequencing, is considered the gold standard in tropism testing. More recently ... «GenomeWeb, Mar 15»
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Researchers may have caught HIV becoming more virulent
They also mentioned the tropism of the virus. Different varieties of HIV prefer different immune-system cells to infect, and this so-called tropism measures ... «aidsmap, Feb 15»
6
Structure of an Enteric Pathogen, Bovine Parvovirus
Similar analogous regions in other Parvovirinae type members are important as determinants of receptor recognition, tissue and host tropism, pathogenicity, and ... «Journal of Virology, Feb 15»
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HIV1 Genotypic Tropism Assay
A client wishing to perform HIV Tropism testing was using the enhanced sensitivity Tropism Assay (ESTA). Although considered to be the current 'Gold Standard' ... «Clinical Leader, Feb 15»
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Thymic HIV-2 Infection Uncovers Posttranscriptional Control of Viral …
Nevertheless, thymocytes featured reduced levels of intracellular Gag viral protein, irrespective of HIV-2 coreceptor tropism and cell differentiation stage, ... «Journal of Virology, Jan 15»
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New viral tools for mapping brains
If you noticed we snuck the little word "tropism" in there. To really understand this technology we need to use at least a minimum of viral engineer-speak here. «Medical Xpress, Oct 14»
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Maraviroc fails to match tenofovir/emtricitabine for first-line HIV …
The proportion of people who achieved viral suppression did not differ significantly based on which test was used to determine viral tropism (81% with the ... «aidsmap, Jul 14»

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