Adrenaline

Definition: Adrenaline

Adrenaline

Noun

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

Specialty Definitions: Adrenaline

Domain	Definitions
Health	A hormone. Also called epinephrine. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Adrenaline (album)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Adrenaline is Deftones' debut album, released in 1995 through Maverick Records.

Track listing

"Bored"
"Minus Blindfold"
"One Weak"
"Nosebleed"
"Lifter"
"Root"
"7 Words"
"Birthmark"
"Engine No. 9"
"Fireal"

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

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Synonyms: Adrenaline

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

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Crosswords: Adrenaline

English words defined with "adrenaline": pumped, pumped up, pumped-up ♦ wired. (references)

Specialty definitions using "adrenaline": adrenergic receptor, adrenoceptor, adrenoreceptor. (references)

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

Afrikaan (adrenaline), Dutch (adrenaline).

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Modern Usage: Adrenaline

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	After and entrance like that you can't be surprised you've been called a self-publicizing adrenaline junkie, can you? (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis) You're going to give her an injection of adrenaline directly to her heart. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) Sometimes adrenaline gives people the shakes, some might think it's precarious, so maybe you'd want to pray about it. (Heist; writing credit: David Mamet) You want an adrenaline rush that'll be two large. (The Fast and the Furious; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson) Why don't you go home huh? Look at me, look at Neely, we're all a bunch of trouble junkies, we've been mainlining danger and adrenaline for so long nothing else gets us off, it's kind a sick. (Air America; writing credit: John Eskow)
Movie/TV Titles	Adrenaline (2003)
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Commercial Usage: Adrenaline

Domain	Title
Books	Real Fighting : Adrenaline Stress Conditioning Through Scenario-Based Training (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Adrenaline Drive (reference) Adrenaline Fix (White Knuckle Extreme) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Running on Adrenaline (reference) Adrenaline (reference) Adrenaline Rush [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Half-Life: Adrenaline Pack (reference) Xbox Adrenaline Pack (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Adrenaline

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Adrenaline relaxes the muscle of the stomach and intestine and decreases the flow of blood to these organs. (references)
		Immediately after exposure to nicotine, there is a "kick" caused in part by the drug's stimulation of the adrenal glands and resulting discharge of epinephrine (adrenaline). (references)
		Extrinsic (outside) nerves come to the digestive organs from the unconscious part of the brain or from the spinal cord. They release a chemical called acetylcholine and another called adrenaline. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Adrenaline

"Adrenaline" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.11% of the time. "Adrenaline" is used about 91 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)	90.11%	82	36,594
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	8.79%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.1%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	91	N/A

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

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Expression: Adrenaline

Expression using "adrenaline": adrenaline secretion. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "adrenaline": adrenaline-fuelled, adrenaline-inducing, adrenaline-like.
	Ending with "adrenaline": non-adrenaline.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Adrenaline

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
audio adrenaline	464
adrenaline	168
adrenaline vault	120
adrenaline rush	48
adrenaline crew	32
adrenaline bike	20
adrenaline paintball	20
adrenaline tattoo	19
adidas adrenaline	17
adrenaline gland	14
adrenaline impulse	14
deftones adrenaline	12
brook adrenaline	12
adrenaline x	10
adrenaline sports	10
adrenaline lyrics rush	10
adrenaline audio chord	10
adrenaline audio pierced	10
adrenaline import	9
adrenaline movie	9
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Modern Translations: Adrenaline

Language		Translations for "adrenaline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		adrenaline, adrenalien. (various references)

Albanian		adrenalin. (various references)

Arabic		‏الكظرين هرمون منشط. (various references)

Bulgarian		адреналин. (various references)

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

Czech		adrenalin. (various references)

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

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

Esperanto		adrenalino. (various references)

French		adrénaline (adrenalin). (various references)

German		Adrenalin (adrenalin, epinephrine). (various references)

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

Hungarian		adrenalin (adrenalin). (various references)

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

Korean		아�"�� 린. (various references)

Pig Latin		adrenalineay

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

Russian		адреналин (adrenalin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		adrenalin, hormon nadbubrežne žlezde. (various references)

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

Swedish		adrenalin. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Adrenaline

Derivations
	Words beginning with "adrenaline": adrenalines. (additional references)
	Words ending with "adrenaline": noradrenaline. (additional references)
	Words containing "adrenaline": noradrenalines. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Adrenaline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: addrinalin, adrenalen, Adrenalize, adrenalyne, adrenelin, adreneline, adrenialin, adrenilin, adreniline, adrinaline, Ardeatine, ardenaline, madrigalien. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Adrenaline"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "adrenaline" (pronounced udre"nulun)
5	-n u l u n	lanolin.
4	-u l u n	globulin, insulin, javelin, Magdalen, masculine, porcelain, Zeppelin.
3	-l u n	Alan, Ballon, befallen, Billon, bouillon, Callan, Chamberlain, chaplain, colon, crestfallen, discipline, elan, fallen, felon, gallon, gremlin, kaolin, Kremlin, Marlin, melon, Mullen, muskmelon, muslin, pelon, penicillin, pentathlon, phenolphthalein, pollen, solan, Solon, stolen, stollen, sullen, swollen, talon, Tolan, triathlon, vanillin, villain, watermelon, woolen, woollen.
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Anagrams: Adrenaline

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-i-l-n-n-r"
	-2 letters: annealed, annealer, inlander, renailed.
	-3 letters: adenine, adrenal, alanine, aliened, aliener, aneared, annelid, araneid, delaine, laniard, leadier, learned, lindane, nadiral, nardine, radiale, redline, relined.
	-4 letters: aedile, aedine, aerial, aeried, alanin, aldrin, alined, aliner, aneled, anneal, ariled, darnel, dealer, dearie, denari, denial, denier, derail, dialer, dinner, earned, endear, endrin, ennead, inaner, indene, inland, laired, lander, lanner, larine, leaden, leader, leaned, leaner, lender, lieder, lierne, linden, linear, nailed, nailer, narial, narine, neared, nereid, radial, radian, railed, rained, randan, realia, rediae, redial, reined, relaid, relend, relied, reline, renail.
	-5 letters: aerie, aider, ailed, aired, aland, alane, alder, alien, aline, anear, anele, anile, annal, areae, areal, arena, ariel, deair, denar, diene, dinar, diner, drail, drain, eared, edile, eider, elain, eland, elder, elide, ender, ideal, idler, inane, inned, inner, irade, laari, laden, lader, laird, lanai, laree, learn, liana, liane, liard, lidar, lined, linen, liner, nadir, naiad, naira, naled, nidal, ranee, ranid, redan, redia, renal, renin, riled.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-i-l-n-n-r"
	+1 letter: adrenalines, alexandrine.
	+2 letters: alexandrines.
	+3 letters: determinantal, noradrenaline.
	+4 letters: noradrenalines, renationalized.
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