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Amide

Definition: Amide

Amide

Noun

1. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Amide \Am"ide\, noun. [Ammonia -ide.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Amide

English words defined with "amide": acetamide, Acid amideChloralamideDiamideethanamideLactamideMalamide, MucamideOxamidepeptide, polyamide, polymeric amide, propanamide, proprionamideSuccinamic, SuccinuricTartramic, Tartramide, TriamideValeramideXanthamide, XylamideZinc amine. (references)
Specialty definitions using "amide": Amide Synthases, Aminoacyltransferases, Angiotensin Amide, Antibiotics, Lactambenzimidazolon pigments, beta-Lactamases, Biuret ReactionCaprolactamp-Aminohippuric Acid, Peptide Chain Elongation, Peptide Nucleic Acids, Peptide PHI. (references)
Etymologies containing "amide": Acetamide, Alkalamide, AmidoBenzamideChloralamideLactamideMalamide, Monamide, MucamideOxanilide, OxanillamidePotassamideTartramideValeramideXanthamide, Xylamide. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Amide" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (amide).

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Specialty Definition: Amide

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Amides are a group of chemical compounds containing nitrogen. Specifically, an amide results from an acid, in which a carbon atom is double bonded to oxygen and also to an hydroxyl group, when the hydroxyl group is replaced by an amine.

The amide functional group is:

Amides are commonly formed from the reaction of a carboxylic acids with an amine:

This is the reaction that forms peptide bonds between amino acids. These amides can participate in hydrogen bonding as hydrogen bond acceptors and donors, but do not ionize in aqueous solution, wheras their parent acids and amines are almost completely ionized in solution at neutral pH.

An amide linkage is kinetically stable to hydrolysis. Amide linkages in a biochemical context are called peptide linkages. Amide linkages constitute a defining molecular feature of proteins, the secondary structure of which is due in part to the hydrogen bonding abilities of amides.

Amides play a large part in condensation polymers, see for instance nylon and polyacrylamide.

Sulfonamides are analogs of amides in which the atom double bonded to oxygen is sulfur rather than carbon.

Amides can be broken down in amide hydrolysis.

Compounds in which a hydrogen atom on nitrogen from ammonia or an amine is replaced by a metal cation are also known as amides, or azanides.

References

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

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Commercial Usage: Amide

DomainTitle

Books

  • Alkali metal, alkaline-earth metal, and ammonium halides. Amide solvents (reference)

  • The Amide Linkage: Structural Significance in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Materials Science (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Amide

"Amide" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amide" is used about 6 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)100%6143,867

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

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Expressions: Amide

Expressions using "amide": Acid amide Amide Synthases Angiotensin Amide polymeric amide xanthogen amide zinc amide. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "amide": amide-exchange.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amide

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

  amide

20

  amide pharmaceutical

11

  amide hydrolysis

6

  amide salivation

3

  acid amide lysergic

3
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Modern Translations: Amide

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

Arabic 

  

‏مركب كيميائى, ‏الأميد. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

氨化物. (various references)

   

Danish

  

amid. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

amide. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

amidi. (various references)

   

French

  

amide. (various references)

   

German

  

Amid. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αμίδιο. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

amid. (various references)

   

Italian

  

amido (amylum, starch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amideay

   

Portuguese

  

amida. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

amidã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

амид. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

amida. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

amid. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

amit. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

амід. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Amide

Derivations

Words beginning with "amide": amides. (additional references)

Words ending with "amide": acetamide, acetazolamide, acrylamide, carbamide, chlorpropamide, cyanamide, cyclophosphamide, diamide, ethionamide, formamide, niacinamide, nialamide, nicotinamide, phenylthiocarbamide, polyacrylamide, polyamide, sodamide, sulfanilamide, sulfonamide, tolbutamide. (additional references)

Words containing "amide": acetamides, acetazolamides, acrylamides, carbamides, chlorpropamides, cyanamides, cyclophosphamides, diamides, ethionamides, formamides, niacinamides, nialamides, nicotinamides, phenylthiocarbamides, polyacrylamides, polyamides, pyramided, sodamides, sulfanilamides, sulfonamides, tolbutamides. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Amide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acide, Adide, Ahmado, Ahmedou, Ahmidou, aida, Aidee, aidel, aideo, aidev, aidey, aidu, akidi, alide, amad, amada, amade, Amadigi, Amado, Amadu, amae, amaid, amare, Amate, Amdec, Amdel, Ameda, Amede, Amedee, Amedo, amee, amete, amibe, amida, amidea, amidet, amidi, Amidini, amids, amie, Amiee, amild, amire, amise, amita, Amitai, amiter, amod, amode, Amodio, amud, Anada, anede, anidder, anite, antide, Aoife, Apidae, apide, aride, armede, Armide, Armidel, Armieder, armite, atide, avide, axied, Camidge, emid, emie, enide, famade, Hamida, Hamidi, iamids, imid, Macindoe, Mahida, maide, maidel, maido, mayde, mide, umid, vamid, Xamdu. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Amide"

Words rhyming with "amide" (pronounced 'Am"ide'): Acetamide, Alkalamide, Benzamide, binoxide, Carbamide, Carboxide, Deutoxide, Dinoxide, Dioxide, Ethide, Glycide, Hydramide, hydroxide, Hyperoxide, imide, Lactamide, Lactimide, Malamide, Meride, Methide, Monamide, monoxide, Mucamide, Murexide, Oxamide, Oxanillamide, Oxide, Pentoxide, Peroxide, Phthalide, Potassamide, Protoxide, Quadroxide, Sesquioxide, Sodamide, Sphragide, Suboxide, Succinimide, Sulphamide, superoxide, Suroxide, Tartramide, Tetroxide, Triamide, trioxide, Valeramide, Xanthamide, Xylamide, Zincide, Zoide. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Amide

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aimed, media.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-m"

-1 letter: aide, amid, amie, dame, dime, idea, idem, made, maid, mead.

-2 letters: aid, aim, ami, dam, die, dim, mad, mae, med, mid.

-3 letters: ad, ae, ai, am, de, ed, em, id, ma, me, mi.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-m"
 

+1 letter: admire, aidmen, amides, daimen, degami, diadem, imaged, maiden, mailed, maimed, mediad, mediae, medial, median, medias, medina.

 

+2 letters: admired, admirer, admires, admixed, admixes, ameboid, amidase, amidine, amidone, claimed, daytime, decimal, declaim, degamis, diadems, diamide, diamine, diastem, dilemma, emailed, haemoid, impaled, implead, inarmed, jemidar, limeade, madeira, maidens, married, mediacy, medials, medians, mediant, mediate, medical, medigap, medinas, melodia, mermaid, miaoued, miaowed, miauled, midyear, misdate, misdeal, mislead, mismade, misread, readmit, sedarim, sidearm, sideman, unaimed.

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Alternative Orthography: Amide


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

41 6D 69 64 65

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)

.-    --    ..    -..    .

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

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

01000001 01101101 01101001 01100100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#105 &#100 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 0069 0064 0065

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

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

3579757071

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INDEX

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


  

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