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Definition: Anabolic |
AnabolicAdjective1. Or or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism. 2. Characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism; "some athletes take anabolic steroids to increase muscle size temporarily". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Anabolic \An`a*bol"ic\, adjective. [Greek expression something heaped up; a stroke.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Relating to, characterized by, or promoting anabolism. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Anabolic is a biochemical term describing something that affects anabolism, or the combining of cell structures.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anabolic."
| Antonym: catabolic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Anabolic |
| English words defined with "anabolic": Anastate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "anabolic": 19-norandrostenediol, 19-norandrostenedione ♦ anabolic androgenic steroid, Anabolic Steroids, androstenedione ♦ danazol, dihydrotestosterone ♦ Estrogens, Ethylestrenol ♦ Fluoxymesterone ♦ gestrinone ♦ Mesterolone, Methandriol, Methenolone, Metribolone ♦ Oxandrolone ♦ Stanozolol ♦ Trenbolone ♦ Zearalenone. (references) |
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Health | In the female body, anabolic steroids cause masculinization. (references) | |
Few studies of treatments for anabolic steroid abuse have been conducted. (references) | ||
They are often taken because the user believes they have anabolic effects. (references) | ||
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| "Anabolic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Anabolic" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.43% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "anabolic": anabolic androgenic steroid ♦ Anabolic effects ♦ anabolic steroid ♦ Anabolic Steroids ♦ anabolic vs catabolic. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "anabolic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 促合成. (various references) | |
Danish | anabolsk, anabolisk stof (anabolic agent, anabolic substance), anabolisk, anabolikum (anabolic agent, anabolic substance), anabol, vaevsopbyggende. (various references) | |
Dutch | anabool steroïdeö anabolicum (anabolic agent, anabolic substance), anabool, anabolisch, anabolisant (anabolic agent, anabolic substance), anabolicum (anabolic substances, anabolics), anabole stof (anabolic agent, anabolic substance), constructief metabolisch. (various references) | |
Finnish | anabolinen. (various references) | |
French | anabolisant (anabolic agent, anabolic substance), anabolique, agent anabolisant (anabolic agent, anabolic substance), substance anabolisante (anabolic agent, anabolic substance). (various references) | |
German | anabol. (various references) | |
Greek | αναβολικός. (various references) | |
Hungarian | asszimilációs, anabolikus. (various references) | |
Italian | anabolico. (various references) | |
Korean | 신진 대사. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anabolicay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anabólico. (various references) | |
Russian | анаболический стероид (anabolic steroid). (various references) | |
Spanish | anabólico. (various references) | |
Swedish | anabol. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | асиміляційний, анаболічний. (various references) | |
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"Anabolic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amabalis, amabilis, anabolics. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anabolic" (pronounced a'nubÄ"lik) |
| 6 | -u b Ä" l i k | metabolic, parabolic. |
| 5 | -b Ä" l i k | hyperbolic, symbolic. |
| 4 | -Ä" l i k | alcoholic, bucolic, diastolic, frolic, melancholic, nonalcoholic, phenolic, vitriolic, workaholic. |
| 3 | -l i k | acrylic, Alec, allelic, anencephalic, angelic, catholic, gallic, garlic, hydraulic, hydrophilic, idyllic, italic, metallic, nonpublic, pedophilic, phallic, psychedelic, public, relic, shashlik. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: coalbin. | |
-2 letters: albino, alnico, bonaci, canola, oilcan. | |
-3 letters: abaci, aboil, aloin, bacon, banal, banco, binal, blain, cabal, cabin, canal, cibol, coala, cobia, colin, labia, lanai, liana, linac, nicol. | |
-4 letters: alan, alba, anal, anil, anoa, baal, bail, bani, blin, bloc, boil, bola, cain, calo, ciao, cion, clan, clon, coal, coil, coin, cola, coni, icon, laic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: botanical, cobalamin. | |
+2 letters: actionable, actionably, baldachino, botanicals, cannabinol, cobalamins. | |
+3 letters: baldachinos, botanically, calibration, cannabinols, containable. | |
+4 letters: bibliomaniac, calibrations, catabolizing, clapboarding, geobotanical, incomparable, incomparably, microbalance, nonbacterial, outbalancing, paleobotanic, sanctionable. | |
+5 letters: abiogenically, abstractional, anaerobically, antimetabolic, antimicrobial, bibliomaniacs, biomechanical, cannonballing, carbonylation, carboxylating, carboxylation, collaborating, collaboration, combinational, combinatorial, companionable, companionably, confabulating, confabulation, confiscatable, flamboyancies, microbalances, nonalphabetic, overbalancing, recalibration, suballocation, syllabication, uncontainable. | |
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