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Definition: Acyl |
AcylNoun1. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Acyl \Ac"yl\, noun. [Acid -yl.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Chemical signal used by bacteria to communicate. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ACP | English | Acyl Carrier Protein | Biology & Biotechnology, Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: AcylSynonym: acyl group (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Acyl |
| English words defined with "acyl": acetyl chloride, acyl anhydrides, acyl group, acyl halide, acylation ♦ ethanoyl chloride. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "acyl": Acyl Carrier Protein, Acyl Coenzyme A, Acyltransferases, Anistreplase ♦ Carnitine Acyltransferases, Ceramides ♦ Esterification ♦ Glycerol-3-Phosphate O-Acyltransferase ♦ Lecithin Acyltransferase Deficiency, Lysophospholipids ♦ Membrane Fluidity ♦ Palmitoyl-CoA Hydrolase, Phospholipases A, Plasmalogens, Protein-Glutamine gamma-Glutamyltransferase ♦ RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl ♦ Sterol O-Acyltransferase. (references) |
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| "Acyl" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Acyl" is used about 28 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) | 96.43% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "acyl": acyl anhydrides ♦ Acyl Carrier Protein ♦ Acyl Coenzyme A ♦ acyl group ♦ acyl halide. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "acyl": acyl-homoserine, Acyl-tRNA. | |
Ending with "acyl": peroxy-acyl. | |
Containing "acyl": alkyl-acyl-glycerophosphocholine. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
acyl chain coa deficiency dehydrogenase medium | 2 |
acyl chain coa deficiency dehydrogenase short | 2 |
acyl | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "acyl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 醯. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | acylgruppe (acyl radical, free acyl radical), acylether (acyl ether), syreradikal (acyl radical, free acyl radical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | acylgroep (acyl radical, free acyl radical), acylether (acyl ether). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | asyyliradikaali (acyl radical, free acyl radical), vapaa asyyliradikaali (acyl radical, free acyl radical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | acyl-éther (acyl ether), radical libre acyle (acyl radical, free acyl radical), radical acyle (acyl radical, free acyl radical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Acylgruppe (acyl group), Acylaether (acyl ether), freies Acylradikal (acyl radical, free acyl radical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακύλιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | acil-etero (acyl ether). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acylay acil-éter (acyl ether). (various references) ацил. (various references) éter acilo (acyl ether). (various references) acylradikal (acyl radical, free acyl radical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "acyl": acylate, acylated, acylates, acylating, acylation, acylations, acyloin, acyloins, acyls. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "acyl" (pronounced 'Ac"yl'): Amyl, Beryl, Ditolyl, Ethyl, Hexyl, hydroxyl, Indoxyl, Lipyl, Maleyl, Methoxyl, methyl, Nonyl, Phthalyl, Potassoxyl, Quinoxyl, sibyl, Tolyl, Trimethyl, Xenyl. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: clay, lacy. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-y" | |
-1 letter: cay, lac, lay. | |
-2 letters: al, ay, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-y" | |
+1 letter: acyls, calyx, clary, clays, coaly, lacey, lycea, scaly. | |
+2 letters: acetyl, acidly, amylic, archly, cagily, calmly, calory, chalky, chally, clammy, classy, clayed, clayey, crawly, cullay, cymbal, dactyl, galyac, glycan, hackly, lacily, lackey, leachy, legacy, lunacy, packly, racily, talcky. | |
+3 letters: acetyls, acolyte, acridly, acrylic, acutely, acyclic, acylate, acyloin, aglycon, alcayde, alchemy, alchymy, alkylic, allylic, anticly, balcony, blackly, cacodyl, calcify, callboy, caloyer, calumny, calvary, calyces, calycle, calypso, calyxes, campily, cannily, capably, cattily, cavally, cavalry, cecally, charily, charley, cheaply, chlamys, ciliary, clarify, clarity, clayier, claying, clayish, claypan, cleanly, clearly, clypeal, coalify, coryzal, coxalgy, crackly, crankly, crassly, crayola, crazily, cryptal, crystal, cullays, curably, cyclase, cymbals, cynical, cypsela, dactyli, dactyls, ducally, ectypal, exactly, faculty, fallacy, fancily, focally, galyacs, glycans, halcyon, kolacky, lackeys, lacquey, lactary, larceny, latency, locally, lyncean, lyrical, myalgic, mycelia, playact, pliancy, prelacy, saucily, scantly, scarily, scrawly, slackly, tacitly, tackily, treacly, typical, valency, vicarly, vocably, vocally, wackily. | |
+4 letters: abjectly, acetoxyl, acetylic, achingly, acolytes, acrylate, acrylics, actively, actually, acylated, acylates, acyloins, aglycone, aglycons, alacrity, alcaydes, amicably, analytic, anyplace, apically, atypical, biacetyl, billycan, blackboy, blackfly, blatancy, buccally, cableway, cacodyls, caecally, cajolery, calamary, calamity, calisaya, callboys, calotype, caloyers, calycate, calyceal, calycine, calycles, calyculi, calypsos, calypter, calyptra, candidly, carbamyl, carbaryl, carbonyl, carboxyl, carnally, carryall, casually, casualty, catalyst, catalyze, catchfly, cattleya, caudally, causally, celibacy, chancily, charlady, charleys, chastely, chattily, chivalry, chorally, cinnamyl, clammily, classify, classily, clattery, claybank, clayiest, claylike, claymore, claypans, clayware, clinally, clonally, clypeate, coalyard, coarsely, coevally, coitally, collyria, condylar, cowardly, crabbily, craftily, craggily, crankily, cravenly, crawlway, crayolas, creakily, creamily, croakily, crystals, culinary, culpably, cyclamen, cyclases, cyclecar, cyclical, cyclonal, cymbaler, cymbalom, cypselae, dactylic, dactylus, delegacy, delicacy, diacetyl, dialytic, didactyl, ecdysial, elegancy, epically, epicalyx, eucalypt, facetely, facially, facilely, facility, falconry, fireclay, fiscally, flackery, garlicky, gauchely, halcyons, lackaday, lackeyed, lacqueys, lacunary, laically, lambency, latchkey, lechayim, literacy, locality, mycelial, mycelian, mystical, mythical, normalcy, ocularly, patchily, physical, placably, placidly, playacts, playback, racially, rancidly, rascally, rectally, sacredly, salacity, saliency, scabbily, scalably, scantily, scarcely, schmalzy, scrabbly, scraggly, secantly, sociably, socially, stanchly, syllabic, sylvatic, syncopal, syndical, ultimacy, uncially, uranylic, vacantly, valiancy, vocality, xylocarp. | |
+5 letters: acclivity, acetoxyls, acetylate, acetylene, acrylates, actuality, acyclovir, acylating, acylation, adjunctly, affluency, aglycones, alchymies, aldehydic, alicyclic, aliteracy, allotypic, amblyopic, analytics, anciently, ancillary, ankylotic, antically, arcuately, autolytic, bacillary, basically, bellyache, biacetyls, billycans, blackbody, blackboys, bracingly, buckyball, cableways, caddishly, calisayas, callosity, callously, calotypes, calyculus, calypsoes, calypters, calyptras, capillary, capitally, carbamyls, carbaryls, carbonyls, carboxyls, carefully, carnality, carpingly, carryalls, cartulary, cataclysm, catalepsy, catalyses, catalysis, catalysts, catalytic, catalyzed, catalyzer, catalyzes, cataplexy, cattleyas, causality, centrally, certainly, chandlery, chirality, chlamydes, chlamydia, chlamyses, chocolaty, chrysalid, chrysalis, cinnamyls, civically, clamantly, claybanks, claymores, claywares, clepsydra, clergyman, coalyards, coaxially, coccygeal, coequally, coevality, cognately, colorably, comically, compactly, comradely, condyloma, conically, connately, cordately, cordially, corollary, corydalis, countably, covalency, cranially, crawlways, crucially, cubically, cyclamate, cyclamens, cyclecars, cyclicals, cycloidal, cyclopean, cyclorama, cymbalers, cymbalist, cymbaloms, cynically, cytoplasm, dactylics, decalcify, decimally, diacetyls, dilatancy, diplomacy, dynamical, electuary, epochally, ethically, eucalypti, eucalypts, excusably, execrably, exultancy, factually, finically, fireclays, flaccidly, flagrancy, flippancy, genically, glacially, gracility, gyrfalcon, helically, hydraulic, incapably, incurably, inexactly, inviolacy, irascibly, jocularly, lachrymal, lackeying, lacqueyed, latchkeys, lechayims, lexically, logically, logomachy, loquacity, lymphatic, lyrically, lytically, magically, manically, marshalcy, medically, megacycle, militancy, musically, mycoflora, ohmically, olfactory, oligarchy, ontically, optically, paralytic, patchouly, peaceably, peccantly, petulancy, physicals, placatory, placidity, plangency, plasticky, playacted, playbacks, polygamic, preachily, psychical, pycnidial, rackingly, radically, rascality, raucously, raunchily, relevancy, scallywag, scatology, schmaltzy, scholarly, scrappily, secularly, sluiceway, sociality, sonically, specially, specialty, starchily, staunchly, stoically, subacidly, syllabics, synclinal, syncytial, synodical, systaltic, tactfully, tactilely, tactility, tactually, teachably, teacherly, telically, thylacine, tonically, topically, tractably, typically, uncannily, unclarity, uncleanly, uncynical, unlyrical, untypical, vacuously, wyliecoat, xylocarps. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 79 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. -.--. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01111001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c y l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0079 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35699178 |
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