Used in a Sentence

disease

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for disease.

Editorial note

Failure on a project is not a communicable disease that spreads to other projects through developers; success is likewise.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of disease gathered in one view.

noun

A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

verb

To infect with a disease.

noun

(figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for disease.

noun

A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

verb

To infect with a disease.

noun

(figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.

noun

(medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.

Example sentences

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Failure on a project is not a communicable disease that spreads to other projects through developers; success is likewise.

2

Are you saying putting a child at risk of life threatening disease to save the mosquitos is acting morally responsible?

3

Basically the bulk of the article says malaria is better characterized as a disease of poverty than as a disease of warming.

4

The list is now pretty long: Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Mad Cow disease, Ebola.

5

We believe that our RNA test can become a routine part of a doctor's visit, both as an early indicator of disease and — if there is disease — as a means to monitor the effectiveness of treatment.

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A disease in the US could ruin a family in Europe is taken care by the state...

7

That they can't right now is an aberration, a disease to be cured with massive immigration.

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In reality, we are detecting circRNA that arises or predominates during a specific disease state and then partition those reads out as a signal for the disease state.

9

Controlling the vectors for delivery is a first step in controlling an outbreak of some disease.

10

Remember, the artery damage that leads to heart-disease (and ultimately, heart attacks) begins very young...

11

But if you can deliver an airborne, persistent heat tolerant RNAi cancer is at worst a chronic disease like diabetes is now.

12

A group, perhaps yours or in concert with yours, could both define the disease subsets based on biomarkers and then diagnose/prognose/inform treatment.

Quote examples

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A much lighter way of hearing what I'm trying to say is this: try to find a TV show called "That Mitchell and Webb Look", Episode 4.1, wherein a chemist who thinks he finds a cure for a disease is told by the owner, M.

2

Gender was the most significant attributable source of variation." A sample size of 12 is small, but makes sense since this is a new technique which enables researchers to identify personal variations in accessible chromatin landscape in human T cells and trace their genetic, epigenetic, and disease associations.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use disease in a sentence?

Failure on a project is not a communicable disease that spreads to other projects through developers; success is likewise.

What does disease mean?

A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

What part of speech is disease?

disease is commonly used as noun, verb.