Donor

Definition: Donor

Donor

Noun

1. Person who makes a gift of property.

2. (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host).

Date "donor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Etymology: Donor \Do"nor\, noun. [French expression donneur, Old French daneor, from donner. See Donee, and compare to Donator.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	In transistors, the N-type semiconductor, the electrode containing impurities which increase the number of available electrons. Contrast acceptor. (references)
Electrical Engineering	An imperfection in a crystal lattice which, where it is predominant, permits electron conductions by the donation of electrons. Source: European Union. (references)
Energy	In a solar photovoltaic device, an n-type dopant, such as phosphorus, that puts an additional electron into an energy level very near the conduction band; this electron is easily exited into the conduction band where it increases the electrical conductivity over than of an undoped semiconductor. (references)
Finance	A person who gives a gift. (references)
Mining	An exploding charge producing an impulse that impinges upon an explosiveacceptor charge. (references)
Public Administration	In humanitarian assistance, a country or organization which provides free assistance to a country in need, without commercial, political or other considerations. Source: European Union. (references)
	State which provides funds for development cooperation. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Donor

Synonyms: giver (n), presenter (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Giving	Giver, grantor; Verb: donor, feoffer, settlor.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Like from, say, an organ donor. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) They say you're the world's only living heart donor. (Sabrina; writing credit: Samuel A. Taylor; Billy Wilder)
Clever	I am not an organ donor, but I once gave an old piano to the Salvation Army. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Donor 47 (1945)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Donor Insemination Guide: Written by and for Lesbian Women (reference) A Gift of Life: A Page From the Life of a Living Organ Donor (reference) Donor Focused Strategies for Annual Giving (Aspen's Fund Raising Series for the 21st Century) (reference) Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination: A Complete Resource Guide (reference) Hidden Gold: How Monthly Giving Will Build Donor Loyalty, Boost Your Organization's Income, and Increase Financial Stability (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Donor Recruitment International (reference) Study On Donor Funding (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Donor (reference) Donor Unknown (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Organ Donor (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Murata Model PF5000/1 Donor Film (reference) Muratec Pf150/2 F-60 Donor Film Two 200m Rolls (reference) Nu-kote Model B359-2 Donor Film, Pack Of 2 (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The first in a series of three images that illustrate the process of collecting donor eelgrass plants for transplant. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		The second in a series of three images that illustrate the process of collecting donor eelgrass plants for transplant. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Before you do crack, do this. : Organ Donor Authorization. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		"Give Love" "Give Life" : Be An Organ Donor. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Experimental coaling at sea while under way in April 1914. Rigging between the two ships was used to transfer two 800-pound bags of coal at a time. The bags were landed on a platform in front of the battleship's forward 12-inch gun turret, and then carried to the bunkers. Original photo is printed on a postal card, inscribed on the reverse: "This is a picture of us coaling at sea last April. I have put a cross over where I stood. I unhooked bags of coal when they came over. It is raining when this picture was taken. We were out of sight of land off coast of Virginia." The donor, a seaman in South Carolina at the time, comments: "it showed that this was possible but a very slow method of refueling. Nothing was heard of the test afterwards.". Credit: NAVY.		At Darwin, Australia, probably on 15 or 18 February 1942. The destroyer astern of Houston may be USS Peary (DD-226). Among the ships in the background, to the left, are HMAS Terka and the SS Zealandia. The donor was on board HMAS Tolga, then used as a water carrier for ships in Darwin harbor. Credit: NAVY.
	Bok, donor of peace award, faces Senate inquiry. Credit: Library of Congress.		Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Formerly a medical technologist, Marjorie Major handles the assembly of blood donor and dispending sets at Baxter Laboratories Inc., Glenview, Illinois. Here she assembles the tubing and valves for sets which will go. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Dutch Gross, ex-world war veteran, trapeze artist, airplane stunt man, friend of "Spike" Conner, the famous blood donor, and the only man to fall out of an airplane at 2000 feet and live (he fell on high tension wire). Better known as "the Flying Dutchma. Credit: Library of Congress.		Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		You may need to wait for a donor. (references)
		It would also complicate donor management. (references)
		The patient's heart is replaced with a donor heart. (references)
Business		Tied loans frequently restrict purchases to the donor country. (references)
		Accordingly, many medium size businesses seek funding through donor agency programs. (references)
		Restrictions of IFIs or donor governments are limited to the eligibility of product and producer. (references)
Children	Bulgaria	With the help of international donor funding, an ethnic reintegration effort began in schools in Vidin in September 2000 and continued throughout the year. (references)
Civil Liberties	Uganda	Although substantial NGO and donor community assistance has improved the overall conditions in the villages, conditions still remain poor. (references)
	Guyana	The international donor community, which assisted with technical advice and some funding, urged the media before the elections to adopt a voluntary code of conduct to curb such excesses, but no such action was taken. (references)
Economic History	Mongolia	Japan is Mongolia's largest bilateral aid donor. (references)
	Vietnam	Japan is by far the largest donor country in Vietnam. (references)
	Pakistan	As such, the United States in 1999 was the largest single donor. (references)
Human Rights	Yemen	The UNDP continues to seek donor funding for the program, which had not begun by year's end. (references)
	Uganda	A public defense service also was established in 1999, but it did not receive any government funding; it relied solely on donor support. (references)
	Zambia	Senior government officials acknowledged the problem of police abuse and requested foreign donor assistance for training for the police. (references)
Political Economy	BELGIUM	Belgium is also a significant donor of development assistance. (references)
	Moldova	The U.S. is by far the largest bilateral aid donor in Moldova. (references)
	Zambia	The latter is dependent on donor concerns about democracy and governance issues in Zambia. (references)
Political Rights	Togo	In 2000 the CENI worked with the Government to develop a budget and then sought funding from the donor community for new legislative elections. (references)
Trade	Kenya	The largest overall multilateral donor is the World Bank. (references)
	Bangladesh	Donor institutions are assisting with financial sector reforms. (references)
Travel	Guinea	The key to sales in the mining, donor project, and general markets are French language ability, patience with the long selling time necessary, and very clear contractual terms, including an irrevocable letter of credit and/or advance payment on a U.S. bank. (references)
Worker Rights	Vietnam	International donor assistance targets the problem of child labor. (references)
	Bangladesh	The Government also has worked with NGO's, donor countries, and international organizations against trafficking. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Progressive Donor Network documents suggest they will raise and spend money on "targeted TV, radio, phones, mail" using a "network of allied organizations."
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	We and other donor countries have begun to assist poor countries develop long-term strategies to improve their food production.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Donor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.66% of the time. "Donor" is used about 591 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.66%	589	10,783
Noun (proper)	0.17%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	0.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	591	N/A

Expressions using "donor": blood donor ♦ donor atom ♦ donor card ♦ donor country ♦ donor DNA ♦ ionising energy of donor ♦ ionizing energy of donor ♦ kidney donor ♦ oocyte donor ♦ organ donor ♦ sperm donor ♦ universal donor ♦ universal donor cell. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "donor": donor-assisted, donor-card, donor-dependence, donor-driven, donor-funded, donor-segregation.
	Ending with "donor": aid-donor, blood-donor, Carbon-Nitrogen Ligases with Glutamine as Amide-N-Donor, random-donor.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "donor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dhurues (donator, giver, subscriber), kontribues (contributor, contributory, tributary). (various references)

Arabic		‏منعم (benefactor, giver, granter, well heeled), ‏المنعم, ‏المعطى, ‏المانح (granter), ‏الواهب. (various references)

Bulgarian		кръводарител, ктитор, пожертвувател (contributor), дарител (contributor, contributory, giver, grantor, presenter). (various references)

Chinese		捐贈者 (contributor), 捐款人. (various references)

Czech		dárce (dedicator, giver). (various references)

Danish		donor (donor atom). (various references)

Dutch		donor (donor atom). (various references)

Farsi		هبه کننده , واهب , اعطاء کننده , دهنده (Giver), بخشنده (Bounteous, Generous, Gracious, Indulgent, Merciful). (various references)

Finnish		lahjoittaja. (various references)

French		donateur, donneur (donor atom). (various references)

German		stifter (donator, founder), spender (contributor, dispenser, donator, giver, givers, subscriber), Geber (dealer, giver), Donator (donor atom). (various references)

Greek		δότης (donor atom). (various references)

Hebrew		מ� �"ב (benefactor, contributor), תורם (contributor, instrumental), � �"יב (benefactor, benevolent, generous, munificent, openhanded), � �"בן (benefactor, philanthropist). (various references)

Hungarian		donor, adományozó (constituent, founder, giver). (various references)

Indonesian		donor, donatur, dermawan (benefactor, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, generous, philanthropist), penderma (giver, philanthropist), pemberi (giver). (various references)

Italian		donatore (contributor, giver, presenter). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		呉れ手 (one who does something for you). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぞうよしゃ, ぞうていしゃ (presentator), ドナー , きぞうしゃ, きそうしゃ, くれて (one who does something for you), せしゅ (benefactor, chief mourner), �"うふしゃ (deliverer), け�"のうしゃ (contributor), ていきょうしゃ. (various references)

Korean		기증자. (various references)

Manx		toyrtyssagh (bestower, donator, giver), giooteyder (bestower, gifter, giver, granter). (various references)

Norwegian		donor, giver. (various references)

Pig Latin		onorday

Portuguese		dador (donor atom). (various references)

Romanian		donator (giver, grantor). (various references)

Russian		донор. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		davalac (giver, presenter). (various references)

Spanish		donante (detur, donor atom, give), donador (donor atom). (various references)

Swedish		givare (dealer, giver), donator (donor atom). (various references)

Thai		ผู้บริจาค (donator). (various references)

Turkish		verici (giver, transmitter, transmitting), veren kimse, kan veren kimse (blood donor), bağışta bulunan kimse (donee). (various references)

Ukrainian		жертводавець (contributor, subscriber), донор. (various references)

Vietnamese		người tặng (giver), người quyên cúng, người cho (giver), người biếu (giver). (various references)

Welsh		rhoddwr (giver). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	dator, datore, datorem. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	goldgiefa. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "donor": donors. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Donor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bonor, conor, denor, Denora, Denotra, dhoon, Dianora, Djondo, Doboj, Donar, donare, Dondo, doner, donir, donit, Donkor, Donnar, donner, donnery, donno, donnor, dono, Donofrio, donore, D'onore, donot, Donou, donyo, doona, doooom, dooooo, dooor, doorn, doron, downor, Dumnor, Dunara, duner, dunnart, Dynorod, dzongri, Jonor, odno, onor, Ponor, sonor, tonor. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "donor" (pronounced dō"ner)
3	-ō" n er	Boner, Honer, kroner, kronor, loner, owner, Stoner, toner.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: rondo.
	Words within the letters "d-n-o-o-r"
	-1 letter: door, odor, ordo, rood.
	-2 letters: don, dor, nod, noo, nor, rod.
	-3 letters: do, no, od, on, or.
	Words containing the letters "d-n-o-o-r"
	+1 letter: condor, cordon, donors, dromon, drongo, indoor, rondos.
	+2 letters: bourdon, bradoon, bridoon, cardoon, concord, condors, cordons, crooned, donator, doorman, doormen, dornock, dragoon, dromond, dromons, drongos, fordone, gadroon, godroon, honored, indoors, lardoon, madrono, nonword, odorant, onboard, orotund, pandoor, sordino, tandoor, tornado.
	+3 letters: acrodont, bourdons, bradoons, bridoons, brooding, cardoons, concords, condoler, condoner, condores, cordoned, cordovan, coronoid, creodont, dishonor, doggoner, donators, doorknob, doornail, dornocks, downpour, downtrod, dragoons, dromonds, drooling, drooping, endorsor, enrooted, fordoing, foredone, forzando, frondose, gadroons, godroons, honorand, honoured, indorsor, ironwood, komondor, lardoons, loanword, madronos, marooned, moonward, moorland, nextdoor, nonwords, odorants, ondogram, overdone, overfond, pandoors, phoronid, profound, proponed, propound, quadroon, ratooned, rigadoon, rodeoing, snowdrop, tandoori, tandoors, tornados, unmoored, unroofed, unrooted, wanderoo, wondrous, woodener.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 6E 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.. --- -. --- .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01101110 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#110 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 006E 006F 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
egg donor	407	donor recognition wall	21
organ donor	135	choose donor	20
bone marrow donor	130	donor eggs	19
sperm donor	103	donor free sperm	19
donor	58	donor egg finding	18
egg donor program	46	universal donor	18
donor software	43	card donor organ	18
donor management	42	donor perfect	15
donor marrow national program	41	donor sperm bank	15
donor management software	41	blood donor universal	14
donor database	39	donor plasma	13
blood donor	36	donor embryo	13
donor sperm	34	ovum donor	11
donor tracking software	33	donor plaque	11
kidney donor	32	donor advised funds	11
donation donor egg	32	donor program	11
donor insemination	27	become bone donor marrow	10
donor wall	26	blood donor type universal	9
donor recognition	24	choose.org donor	9
donor egg institute surrogacy	22	acquisition donor	9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Donor

Definition: Donor

Donor

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Synonyms: Donor

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