Adenine

Definition: Adenine

Adenine

Noun

1. (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA.

Domain	Definitions
Chemical Industry	Dull blurry and usually mottled coloration. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	A purine base and a fundamental unit of adenine nucleotides. (references)
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Adenine is one of the purine basess used in forming nucleotides of DNA and RNA.

Adenine forms adenosine, a nucleoside, when attached to ribose and deoxyadenosine when attached to deoxyribose, and it forms Adenosine triphosphate, a nucleotide, when one or more phosphate group is added to adenosine. Adenosine triphosphate is used in all known cellular metabolisms as one of the basic methods of transferring chemical energy between reactions.

Domain	Title
Books	Adenine Nucleotides in Cellular Energy Transfer and Signal Transduction (reference) Adenosine and Adenine Nucleotides As Regulators of Cellular Function (reference) Physiological and regulatory functions of adenosine and adenine nucleotides (reference) Role of Adenosine and Adenine Nucleotides in the Biological System: Metabolism, Release, Transport, Receptors, Transduction Mechanisms and Biologica (reference) Adenine arabinoside, an antiviral agent (reference) (more book examples)
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"Adenine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Adenine" is used about 7 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
Adjective (general or positive)	71.43%	5	157,705
Noun (singular)	28.57%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

Expressions using "adenine": Adenine Nucleotide Translocase ♦ Adenine Phosphoribosyltransferase ♦ Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide ♦ nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "adenine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		腺嘌呤. (various references)

Danish		adenin. (various references)

Dutch		adenine. (various references)

Finnish		nikotiinihappoamidiadeniinidinukleotidifosfaatti (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate), nikotiinihappoamidiadeniinidinukleotidi (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), flaviiniadeniinidinukleotidi (flavin adenine dinucleotide, flavine adenine dinucleotide). (various references)

French		adénine. (various references)

German		Adenin. (various references)

Greek		αδενίνη. (various references)

Italian		adenina. (various references)

Pig Latin		adenineay

Portuguese		dinocleotídeo de nicotinamida de adenina (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide). (various references)

Russian		аденин. (various references)

Spanish		adenina. (various references)

Swedish		nikotinamid-adenin-dinukleotid (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "adenine": adenines. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Adenine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abenina, adeliae, Adeniken, adeninide, adonnino, adonyne, arenite, asenine, denine, dennie, Gadenne. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "adenine" (pronounced a"dunē'n)
4	-u n ē' n	mezzanine.
3	-n ē' n	guanine.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-n"
	-1 letter: aedine, ennead, indene.
	-2 letters: diene, inane, inned.
	-3 letters: aide, dean, dene, deni, dine, eide, idea, need, nene, nide, nine.
	-4 letters: aid, ain, and, ane, ani, dee, den, die, din, end, inn, nae, nan, nee.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, ai, an, de, ed, en, id, in, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-n"
	+1 letter: adenines, decennia, enneadic.
	+2 letters: adenosine, celandine, deadening, deafening, decennial, demeaning, enchained, endearing, engrained, entrained, grenadine, menadione.
	+3 letters: adenosines, adrenaline, anteceding, antependia, celandines, deadenings, decennials, definienda, denegation, denominate, detainment, dinnerware, emendating, emendation, enunciated, grandniece, grenadines, incandesce, innervated, intendance, meandering, menadiones, reanointed, refinanced, renegading, serenading, undeniable, unexamined.
	+4 letters: adrenalines, alexandrine, antependium, bedarkening, bedeafening, bemaddening, breadwinner, calendering, channelized, clandestine, deadeningly, deafeningly, decennially, definientia, delineating, delineation, denegations, denervating, denervation, denominated, denominates, detainments, determinant, detrainment, dinnerwares, disentangle, edutainment, emendations, endangering, endearingly, endeavoring, ensanguined, entertained, grandnieces, handinesses, inadvertent, incandesced, incandesces, incinerated, indefinable, inseminated, intendances, intenerated, interdental, lavendering, nonadhesive, pentamidine, pentlandite, prefinanced, reascending, redemanding, rehardening, renominated, sandinesses, tragedienne, unalienated, undefinable, undereating, unendearing, unexplained, unreadiness.
	+5 letters: absentminded, alexandrines, androgenesis, androgenetic, antependiums, apprehending, ascendancies, ascendencies, breadwinners, candidnesses, daintinesses, daringnesses, debonairness, declensional, degenerating, degeneration, delineations, demimondaine, denervations, denominative, denunciative, determinants, detrainments, diencephalon, disenchanted, disenchanter, disentangled, disentangles, edutainments, endeavouring, enfranchised, freestanding, guanethidine, heartrending, inadvertence, inadvertency, incandescent, incendiaries, indeclinable, indefinables, interchained, interchanged, internalised, internalized, interplanted, inwardnesses, kindergarten, maidenliness, mendicancies, mischanneled, misdemeanant, pentamidines, pentlandites, predominance, prenominated, rancidnesses, redundancies, reincarnated, reinnervated, remaindering, tragediennes, unbiasedness, undesignated, ungerminated, unintegrated, unmechanized, unmyelinated, unrestrained, unsteadiness, unventilated.
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