Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To tie or bind with a ligature.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bind with a ligature; tie.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.
  • transitive verb (Molecular biology) To concatenate two strands of (nucleic acid, usually DNA), in an end-to-end fashion, using a ligase.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To bind with a ligature or bandage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb bind with a bandage or ligature
  • verb join letters in a ligature when writing
  • verb bind chemically

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin ligāre, ligāt-; see leig- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • I know there are professors in this country who "ligate" arteries.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • I know there are professors in this country who "ligate" arteries.

    Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Ensuing discoveries of other natural catalytic RNAs that could cleave and ligate phosphodiester bonds, and the very recent observation that the region surrounding the peptidyl transferase center of a bacterial

    The RNA World 2010

  • At that time, it had only been demonstrated that RNA could cleave or ligate phosphodiester bonds.

    The RNA World 2010

  • Instead I've ended up working 10-11ish hour days trying to play catch up to get the World's Most Uncooperative Plasmid to ligate my oligonucleotides and getting the yeast ready to do the shuffle.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Amanda 2008

  • Instead I've ended up working 10-11ish hour days trying to play catch up to get the World's Most Uncooperative Plasmid to ligate my oligonucleotides and getting the yeast ready to do the shuffle.

    I like my whine well aged Amanda 2008

  • It had taken over three years to test and litigate Carrie's case, but less than an hour to cut and ligate her

    Excerpt: Better for All the World by Harry Bruinius 2006

  • I do not want to extract, digest, ligate, transform, inoculate or incubate anything.

    Brimstone and Fire microbiologist xx 2008

  • I do not want to extract, digest, ligate, transform, inoculate or incubate anything.

    Archive 2008-07-01 microbiologist xx 2008

  • This also requires the intervention of enzymes that cut and re-ligate the DNA at appropriate positions.

    Dembski versus Europe - The Panda's Thumb 2007

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