chemiosmotic coupling (medicine) and father 1, noun (oh)

chemiosmotic coupling (medicine)

chemiosmotic coupling

The linking of ATP synthesis to electrontransfer by way of an electrochemical hydrogen cation gradient across amembrane.

father 1, noun (oh)

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1 ?parent?
2 ?priest?
3 fathers
4 ?god?
5 the father of something
6 from father to son
7 like father like son
8 a bit of how's your father
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[Language: Old English; Origin: fAder]
?PARENT?
a male parent
::Ask your father to help you.
::Andrew was very excited about becoming a father.
::He's been like a father to me.
a father of two/three/four etc
(=a man with two, three etc children)
::The driver, a father of four, escaped uninjured.
::Steve recently became the proud father of a 7lb 12oz baby girl.
?PRIEST?
Father
a priest, especially in the Roman Catholic church
::I have sinned, Father.
::Father Devlin
-see also Holy Father
fathers [plural] people related to you who lived a long time ago
-synonym ancestors ancestors
::Our fathers were exiles from their native land.
-see also forefather
?GOD?
Father
a way of talking to or talking about God, used in the Christian Religion
::our Heavenly Father
the father of sth
the man who was responsible for starting something
::Freud is the father of psychoanalysis.
from father to son
if property or skill passes from father to son, children receive it or learn it from their parents
::This is a district where old Crafts are handed down from father to son.
like father like son
used to say that a boy behaves like his father, especially when this behaviour is bad
a bit of how's your father
BrE informal the act of having sex - used humorously
-see also city fathers , founding father

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