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Definition: Actin |
ActinNoun1. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split; can exist in either a globular or a fibrous form. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "actin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
"Actin" is a common misspelling or typo for: acting, actinic, actins, action. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Essential component of the cell skeleton. Source: European Union. (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 |
ACTIN | English | Alternative Crops Technology Interaction Network | Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Actin |
| English words defined with "actin": actomyosin ♦ myosin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "actin": Actinin ♦ Cytochalasin D ♦ Gelsolin ♦ Microfilament Proteins, Microfilaments, Muscle Contraction, Myofibrils, Myosin ATPase ♦ rac1 GTP-Binding Protein, rho GTP-Binding Proteins, rhoA GTP-Binding Protein, rhoB GTP-Binding Protein ♦ Stress Fibers, Synapsins ♦ Troponin. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Actin like they never seen nobody hit a ;ick before (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem) This verse I'm talkin bout a guy that's actin just like a girl (Get Away; performing artist: Jade) Turnin her nose up at people actin jealous and bitter (Get Away; performing artist: Jade) Drinkin Henn and actin like it do somethin to me (Shake Ya Ass; performing artist: Mystikal) Or 19 kinda snotty actin real rude (Ride Wit Me (Featuring City Spud); performing artist: Nelly) | |
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 | Myosin and actin protein molecules contained in muscles. Credit: NIAA. |  | Schematic depiction of the osmotic stress action in the case of actin polymerization (Picture courtesy R.P. Rand, Brock U). Credit: NICHD. |
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| "Actin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Actin" is used about 70 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) | 100% | 70 | 39,981 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "actin": actin-binding. | |
Ending with "actin": F-actin, G-actin. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "actin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 肌动蛋白. (various references) | |
Finnish | G-aktiini (G-actin, globular actin), F-aktiini (F-actin, fibrous actin). (various references) | |
French | actine. (various references) | |
German | Aktin. (various references) | |
Greek | ακτίνη σφαιρική (G-actin, globular actin), ακτίνη ινώδης (F-actin, fibrous actin). (various references) | |
Italian | actina. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | actinay.(various references) | |
Russian | актин. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "actin": actinal, acting, actings, actinia, actiniae, actinian, actinians, actinias, actinic, actinically, actinide, actinides, actinism, actinisms, actinium, actiniums, actinoid, actinoids, actinolite, actinolites, actinometer, actinometers, actinometric, actinometries, actinometry, actinomorphic, actinomorphies, actinomorphy, actinomyces, actinomycete, actinomycetes, actinomycetous, actinomycin, actinomycins, actinomycoses, actinomycosis, actinomycotic, actinon, actinons, actins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "actin": morphactin, prolactin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "actin": abreacting, abstracting, attracting, coacting, coenacting, compacting, contacting, contracting, counteracting, detracting, diffracting, distracting, distractingly, enacting, exacting, exactingly, exactingness, exactingnesses, extracting, impacting, infracting, interacting, misacting, morphactins, nonacting, noninteracting, outacting, overabstracting, overacting, overreacting, playacting, playactings, preacting, preenacting, prolactins, protactinium, protactiniums, protracting, reacting, recontacting, redacting, reenacting, refracting, retracting, retroacting, subcontracting, subtracting, transacting, transactinide, underacting, underreacting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "actin" (pronounced a"ktun) |
| 5 | a" k t u n | prolactin. |
| 4 | -k t u n | nekton, plankton. |
| 3 | -t u n | fatten, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: antic. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: anti, cain, cant, tain. | |
-2 letters: act, ain, ait, ani, ant, can, cat, nit, tan, tic, tin. | |
-3 letters: ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: acetin, acting, actins, action, antick, antics, atonic, canthi, cantic, cation, catkin, catlin, catnip, centai, enatic, incant, intact, mantic, nastic, tannic, tincal, tunica. | |
+2 letters: acanthi, acetins, aconite, actinal, actings, actinia, actinic, actinon, actions, agnatic, ancient, antacid, anticar, anticks, anticly, atonics, auction, botanic, cabinet, cantina, canting, cantrip, captain, caption, carotin, carting, casting, cations, catkins, catling, catlins, catmint, catnips, catting, caution, ceratin, certain, cineast, coating, contain, crating, creatin, curtain, cyanite, discant, faction, fanatic, frantic, gnathic, incants, inexact, infarct, infract, jacinth, katcina, lunatic, mantric, narcist, nematic, nictate, paction, picante, quantic, satanic, stannic, tacking, tacrine, taction, talcing, tantric, tetanic, tincals, titanic, tracing, tunicae, venatic, xanthic, zincate. | |
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