Chaperone vs Chaperons - What's the difference?
chaperone | chaperons |
An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
(biology) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
to act as a chaperone
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As nouns the difference between chaperone and chaperons
is that chaperone is an older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman while chaperons is .As verbs the difference between chaperone and chaperons
is that chaperone is to act as a chaperone while chaperons is (chaperon).chaperone
English
(wikipedia chaperone)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* chaperoneship * cochaperoneVerb
(en-verb)- 'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'