Adrenalin

Definition: Adrenalin

Adrenalin

Noun

1. A catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action.

Date "Adrenalin" was first used: 1901 (expression from the Japanese chemist Jokichi Takamine 1853-1922). (references)

Specialty Definitions: Adrenalin

Domain	Definitions
Health	A hormone of the adrenal medulla. (references)
Medicine	2)a hormone of the adrenal medulla. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Adrenalin

Synonyms: adrenaline (n), epinephrin (n), epinephrine (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Adrenalin

English words defined with "Adrenalin": adrenaline ♦ epinephrin, epinephrine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Adrenalin": startling effect. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Adrenalin" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (adrenaline), Czech (adrenaline), German (adrenaline), Hungarian (adrenalin, adrenaline), Serbo-Croatian (adrenaline), Swedish (adrenaline), Turkish (adrenalin).

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Modern Usage: Adrenalin

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Adrenalin building up! ("Danger (Been So Long)"; performing artist: Mystikal)
Movie/TV Titles	Adrenalin (1996)
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Commercial Usage: Adrenalin

Domain	Title
Books	Adrenalin and Stress (reference) Adrenalin flicknife (reference) Adrenalin Hour: The South Pacific, World War II (Illustrated) (reference) Extreme Sports: The Illustrated Guide to Maximum Adrenalin Thrills (reference) Hidden Link Between Adrenalin and Stress: The Exciting New Breakthrough That Helps You Overcome Stress Damage (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Adrenalin Hardcore Rush, Vol. 1 (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Usage Frequency: Adrenalin

"Adrenalin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Adrenalin" is used about 278 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)	99.28%	276	17,631
Noun (proper)	0.72%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	278	N/A

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

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Expression: Adrenalin

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Adrenalin": adrenalin-boosting, adrenalin-charged, adrenalin-fuelled, adrenalin-pumping, adrenalin-rush, adrenalin-sapping, adrenalin-soaked.
	Ending with "Adrenalin": high-adrenalin.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Adrenalin

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
adrenalin	309
adrenalin impulse	15
adrenalin vault	13
adrenalin crew	12
audio adrenalin	12
adrenalin gland	10
adrenalin paintball	9
adrenalin corporate entertainment	6
adrenalin motorsports	6
adrenalin import	5
adrenalin rush	4
adrenalin explorer sport trac	4
adrenalin stack	4
adrenalin sports	3
adrenalin autohaus	3
adrenalin hormone	3
adrenalin player	3
adrenalin angel	3
adrenalin skateboard	2
adrenalin junkies	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Adrenalin

Language		Translations for "Adrenalin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الأدرينالين: عقار متبلر أبيض يستعمل منبها للقلب. (various references)

Chinese		肾上腺� (Adrenaline). (various references)

Danish		adrenalin (adrenaline, epinephrine). (various references)

Dutch		adrenaline (adrenaline, epinephrine), suprarenine (epinephrine), epinefrine (epinephrine). (various references)

French		adrénaline (adrenaline). (various references)

German		Adrenalinum (epinephrine), Adrenalin (adrenaline, epinephrine), Acceleransstoff (epinephrine), Sympathin (epinephrine), Suprarenin (epinephrine), Pressorsubstanz (epinephrine), Paranephrin (epinephrine), Nebennierenmarkhormon (epinephrine), Loewi Acceleransstoff (epinephrine), Levoreninum (epinephrine), Glaukosan (epinephrine), Epirenan (epinephrine), Epinephrin (epinephrine). (various references)

Greek		αδρεναλίνη (adrenaline, epinephrine). (various references)

Hebrew		א�"ר� לין. (various references)

Hungarian		adrenalin (adrenaline), mellékvese hormon. (various references)

Italian		adrenalina (adrenaline, epinephrine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		アドレス帳 (address book, addressing, advisor, anachronism, anagram, analog computer, analog digital, Anaphylaxie, anarchism, anarchist, anarchy, anathema, announce, announcement, announcer, unaccompanied baggage). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		アドレナリン . (various references)

Pig Latin		adrenalinay

Portuguese		adrenalina (adrenaline, epinephrine). (various references)

Romanian		adrenalinã. (various references)

Russian		адреналин (adrenaline). (various references)

Spanish		adrenalina (adrenaline, epinephrine). (various references)

Turkish		adrenalin. (various references)

Ukranian		адреналін. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Adrenalin

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	renes. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Adrenalin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Adrenalin": adrenaline, adrenalines. (additional references)
	Words ending with "Adrenalin": noradrenalin. (additional references)
	Words containing "Adrenalin": noradrenaline, noradrenalines, noradrenalins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Adrenalin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: addrinalin, adrenalen, adrenelin, adrenialin, adrenilin, Andronaci, Andronaki, Daramalan. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Adrenalin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-n-n-r"
	-1 letter: inlander.
	-2 letters: adrenal, alanine, annelid, araneid, laniard, lindane, nadiral, nardine, radiale.
	-3 letters: aerial, alanin, aldrin, alined, aliner, anneal, ariled, darnel, denari, denial, derail, dialer, dinner, endrin, inaner, inland, laired, lander, lanner, larine, linden, linear, nailed, nailer, narial, narine, radial, radian, railed, rained, randan, realia, redial, relaid, renail.
	-4 letters: aider, ailed, aired, aland, alane, alder, alien, aline, anear, anile, annal, areal, arena, ariel, deair, denar, dinar, diner, drail, drain, elain, eland, ideal, idler, inane, inned, inner, irade, laari, laden, lader, laird, lanai, learn, liana, liane, liard, lidar, lined, linen, liner, nadir, naiad, naira, naled, nidal, ranid, redan, redia, renal, renin, riled.
	-5 letters: aide, airn, alae, alan, alar, anal, anil, anna, area, aria, arid, aril, dale, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, deil, deli, deni, dial, diel, dine, dire, dirl, earl, earn, elan, idea, idle, ilea, ired, lade, laid, lain, lair, land, lane, lard, lari, lead, lean, lear, lend, liar, lied, lien, lier, line, linn, lira, lire, naan, nada, nail, nana, nard, near, nerd, nide, nine, raia, raid, rail, rain, rale, rand, rani, read, real, rein, rend, rial, ride, riel, rile, rind.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-n-n-r"
	+1 letter: adrenaline, mainlander.
	+2 letters: adrenalines, alexandrine, calendaring, mainlanders, quadrennial.
	+3 letters: alexandrines, engarlanding, noradrenalin, quadrennials, salamandrine.
	+4 letters: degranulation, determinantal, noradrenaline, noradrenalins, quadrennially, relandscaping.
	+5 letters: degranulations, denaturalizing, noradrenalines, renationalized, undervaluation, valetudinarian.
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