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Acyl

Definition: Acyl

Acyl

Noun

1. 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)



Specialty Definitions: Acyl

DomainDefinitions

Health

Chemical signal used by bacteria to communicate. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Acyl

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

An organic radical obtained from an organic acid by the removal of the carboxylic hydroxyl group.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Acyl."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Acyl

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField
ACPEnglishAcyl Carrier ProteinBiology & Biotechnology, Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Acyl

Synonym: acyl group (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Acyl

English words defined with "acyl": acetyl chloride, acyl anhydrides, acyl group, acyl halide, acylationethanoyl chloride. (references)
Specialty definitions using "acyl": Acyl Carrier Protein, Acyl Coenzyme A, Acyltransferases, AnistreplaseCarnitine Acyltransferases, CeramidesEsterificationGlycerol-3-Phosphate O-AcyltransferaseLecithin Acyltransferase Deficiency, LysophospholipidsMembrane FluidityPalmitoyl-CoA Hydrolase, Phospholipases A, Plasmalogens, Protein-Glutamine gamma-GlutamyltransferaseRNA, Transfer, Amino AcylSterol O-Acyltransferase. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Acyl

DomainTitle

Books

  • Plant lipid biochemistry: the biochemistry of fatty acids and acyl lipids with particular reference to higher plants and algae (reference)

  • The Chemistry of Acyl Halides (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Acyl

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)96.43%2766,962
Noun (proper)3.57%1339,140
                    Total100.00%28N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Acyl

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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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acyl

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

acyl chain coa deficiency dehydrogenase medium

2

acyl chain coa deficiency dehydrogenase short

2

acyl

2
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Modern Translations: Acyl

Language Translations for "acyl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

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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

   

Portuguese

  

acil-éter (acyl ether). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ацил. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

éter acilo (acyl ether). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

acylradikal (acyl radical, free acyl radical). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Acyl

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).

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Rhyming with "Acyl"

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)

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Anagrams: Acyl

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Acyl


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 79 6C

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)

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

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

01000001 01100011 01111001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0079 006C

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

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

35699178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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