2. Noun. (biochemistry) Any protein (involved in an immune system) that when modified by a pathogen becomes bound by a guard protein, precipitating the immune response ¹
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Definition of Guardee
1. a guardsman [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guardee
Literary usage of Guardee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Past ten o'clock, and a rainy night, a farce by Thomas John Dibdin (1815)
"guardee! Snaps. Go and plague your husbands. . . . Har. Or if they should, we
have only to recollect their present kindness, and bid them remember Cha. ..."
2. The Guardian by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1804)
"In the mean time I shall fill up my paper with a letter which comes to me from
another of my obliged correspondents. ' DEAR guardee, ' THIS comes to you ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1904)
"That old chap in the top-hat by the lamp-post is an ex-guardee. That's why he's
saluting in slow time. No, there's no regulation governing these things, ..."
4. The British Essayists;: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"In the mean time I shall fill up my paper with a letter which comes to me from
another of my obliged correspondents. ' DEAR guardee ..."
5. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His by Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811)
"In the mean time I shall fill up my paper with a letter which comes to me from
another of my obliged correspondents. " DEAR guardee, " THIS comes to you ..."
6. Problems of the Panama Canal: Including Climatology of the Isthmus, Physics by Henry Larcom Abbot (1907)
"... and each of the members has carefully guardee himself from expressing a definite
opinion. Admiral Walker, at his recen examination before the Senate ..."
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