"hormone" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhɔːməʊn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhoɹmoʊn/ [US] Audio: en-us-hormone.ogg [US] Forms: hormones [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”). Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|grc|ὁρμῶν}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), {{m|grc|ὁρμάω||to set in motion, to urge on}} ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), {{m|grc|ὁρμή||rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort}} ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} hormone (plural hormones)
  1. (physiology) Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity. Categories (topical): Physiology Translations (substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity): هُرْمُون (hurmūn) [masculine] (Arabic), hormona [feminine] (Asturian), хормо́н (hormón) [masculine] (Bulgarian), hormona [feminine] (Catalan), 激素 (kek-sò͘) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 激素 (gik¹ sou³) (Chinese Cantonese), 激素 (jīsù) (Chinese Mandarin), 荷爾蒙 (Chinese Mandarin), 荷尔蒙 (hé'ěrméng) (Chinese Mandarin), hormon [masculine] (Czech), hormon (Danish), hormoon [neuter] (Dutch), hormono (Esperanto), hormoni (Finnish), sisäerite (Finnish), umpierite (Finnish), hormone [feminine] (French), hormona [feminine] (Galician), Hormon [neuter] (German), ορμόνη (ormóni) [feminine] (Greek), ન્યાસર્ગ (nyāsarg) (Gujarati), અંતઃસ્રાવ (antaḥsrāv) (Gujarati), הורמון (hormone) [masculine] (Hebrew), हॉर्मोन (hŏrmon) (Hindi), न्यासर्ग (nyāsarg) (Hindi), अंतःस्राव (antaḥsrāv) (Hindi), hormon (Hungarian), hormón [masculine, neuter] (Icelandic), hormono (Ido), hormon (Indonesian), hormón [masculine] (Irish), ormone [masculine] (Italian), ホルモン (horumon) (Japanese), អរម៉ូន (ʼɑɑmoun) (Khmer), 호르몬 (horeumon) (Korean), hormons [masculine] (Latvian), hormonas [masculine] (Lithuanian), taiaki (Maori), hormon [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), hormon [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), هورمون (hurmun) (Persian), hormon [masculine] (Polish), hormônio [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), hormona [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), гормо́н (gormón) [masculine] (Russian), инкре́т (inkrét) [masculine] (Russian), хо̀рмо̄н [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), hòrmōn [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), hormón [masculine] (Slovak), hormona [feminine] (Spanish), hormon [neuter] (Swedish), புலங்கள் (pulaṅkaḷ) (Tamil), ฮอร์โมน (hɔɔ-moon) (Thai), гормо́н (hormón) [masculine] (Ukrainian), nội tiết tố (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-hormone-en-noun-abXuKSx2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 11 25 33 Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences Disambiguation of 'substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity': 57 6 6 31
  2. (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity. Categories (topical): Pharmacology
    Sense id: en-hormone-en-noun-EY~tH94i Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 11 25 33 Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
  3. (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.
    (LGBT, colloquial, usually in the plural) Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.
    Tags: colloquial, plural-normally Categories (topical): LGBT, Pharmacology, Hormones, Transgender
    Sense id: en-hormone-en-noun-exM790Q0 Disambiguation of Hormones: 17 10 35 10 27 Disambiguation of Transgender: 9 6 47 8 30 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 11 25 33 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 16 41 21 4 Topics: LGBT, lifestyle, medicine, pharmacology, sciences, sexuality
  4. (botany) Any similar substance in plants. Categories (topical): Botany Translations (a plant hormone): hormoni (Finnish), kasvihormoni (Finnish), hormônio [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), hormona [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), hormon [neuter] (Swedish), växthormon [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-hormone-en-noun-M4q~FZVu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 11 25 33 Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'a plant hormone': 17 25 25 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hormone Related terms: steroid, :Category:Hormones Translations (synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone): hormon (Danish), hormono (Esperanto), hormoni (Finnish), ορμόνη (ormóni) [feminine] (Greek), hormon (Hungarian), hormônio [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), hormona [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), hormon [neuter] (Swedish)

Verb

IPA: /ˈhɔːməʊn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhoɹmoʊn/ [US] Audio: en-us-hormone.ogg [US] Forms: hormones [present, singular, third-person], hormoning [participle, present], hormoned [participle, past], hormoned [past]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”). Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|grc|ὁρμῶν}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), {{m|grc|ὁρμάω||to set in motion, to urge on}} ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), {{m|grc|ὁρμή||rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort}} ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} hormone (third-person singular simple present hormones, present participle hormoning, simple past and past participle hormoned)
  1. (transitive, colloquial) To treat with hormones. Tags: colloquial, transitive
    Sense id: en-hormone-en-verb-7T4iwChn

Inflected forms

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      "code": "yue",
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      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
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      "roman": "hé'ěrméng",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "word": "荷尔蒙"
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      "code": "da",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "hormone"
    },
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hormona"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ορμόνη"
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      "code": "ga",
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      "code": "it",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "ja",
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      "word": "ホルモン"
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      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
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      "word": "អរម៉ូន"
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      "code": "ko",
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      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "word": "호르몬"
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      "code": "mi",
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      "word": "taiaki"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hormon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hormon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "hurmun",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "word": "هورمون"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hormon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hormônio"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hormona"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gormón",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гормо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "inkrét",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "инкре́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хо̀рмо̄н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hòrmōn"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hormón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hormona"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hormon"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "pulaṅkaḷ",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "word": "புலங்கள்"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "hɔɔ-moon",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "word": "ฮอร์โมน"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hormón",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гормо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity",
      "word": "nội tiết tố"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone",
      "word": "hormon"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone",
      "word": "hormono"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone",
      "word": "hormoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ormóni",
      "sense": "synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ορμόνη"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone",
      "word": "hormon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hormônio"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hormona"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hormon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a plant hormone",
      "word": "hormoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a plant hormone",
      "word": "kasvihormoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a plant hormone",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hormônio"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a plant hormone",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hormona"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a plant hormone",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hormon"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a plant hormone",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "växthormon"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "hormone"
  ],
  "word": "hormone"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
    "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
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      "name": "lbor"
    },
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    {
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        "2": "ὁρμή",
        "3": "",
        "4": "rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort"
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      "name": "m"
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  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).",
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        "singular",
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        "present"
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      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To treat with hormones."
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      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "ipa": "/ˈhoɹmoʊn/",
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        "US"
      ]
    },
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}

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