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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 |
DNase | English | Deoxyribonuclease | Biology & Biotechnology |
DNase | French | Désoxyribonucléase | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In 1993 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of DNase for CF treatment. (references) | |
A naturally occurring enzyme called DNase can cut long DNA molecules into shorter pieces and reduce their stickiness. (references) | ||
Treatment with DNase reduced the frequency of severe episodes of lung infection and slightly improved lung function after 24 weeks of therapy. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DNASE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 44.19% of the time. "DNASE" is used about 43 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) | 44.19% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 37.21% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.6% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DNASE": dnase-free. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: deans, saned, sedan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ands, anes, dean, dens, ends, sade, sand, sane, send, sned. | |
-2 letters: ads, and, ane, den, eds, end, ens, nae, sad, sae, sea, sen. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, an, as, de, ed, en, es, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-s" | |
+1 letter: amends, anodes, ascend, dances, davens, dedans, denars, desand, desman, dewans, elands, kneads, ladens, menads, naleds, redans, sadden, sained, sanded, sander, sedans, sendal, snaked, snared, snawed, staned, sundae. | |
+2 letters: acnodes, addends, adenyls, advents, agendas, anadems, aniseed, ansated, appends, ascends, asunder, attends, augends, badness, banders, bandies, basined, bedamns, bedpans, bendays, calends, candies, candles, daemons, damners, dampens, dancers, danders, dandies, dandles, dangers, dangles, dankest, danseur, daphnes, dapsone, darkens, darnels, darners, dasheen, daysmen, deacons, deadens, deafens, decanes, decants, deewans, defangs, demands, demeans, denials, dentals, desands, descant, deskman, desmans, destain, detains, donates, duennas, dyspnea, encased, endears, endways, enneads, errands, expands, fadeins, ganders, gardens, glandes, gnashed, handles, handsel, handset, hardens, incased, instead, invades, kalends, lagends, landers, maddens, madness, maenads, maidens, masoned, medians, medinas, medusan, monades, naiades, noyades, panders, pandies, pedants, pentads, randies, remands, saddens, sadness, sainted, sanders, sandier, sandmen, sardine, scanned, scanted, seedman, sendals, shanked, sideman, slander, slanged, slanted, snacked, snafued, snagged, snailed, snapped, snarled, sneaked, sneaped, spandex, spanked, spanned, spawned, speaned, stained, standee, stander, stanged, subdean, sundaes, swanked, swanned, tandems, unasked, unbased, uncased, unlades, unleads, unsated, unsaved, unsawed, wanders, wardens, weasand, wessand, zanders. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4E 41 53 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. -. .- ... . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001110 01000001 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D N A S E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004E 0041 0053 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3848355339 |
| 1. Synonyms 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Abbreviations 6. Acronyms 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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