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Definitions: Capsid |
CapsidNoun1. A variety of leaf bug. 2. The outer covering of protein surrounding the nucleic acid of a virus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The outer protein protective shell of a virus, which protects the viral nucleic acid. (references) |
Medicine | Protein coat, composed of capsomers, that surrounds the nucleic acid of a virus and determines the overall shape of the virus. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: CapsidSynonyms: mirid (n), mirid bug (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Capsid |
| English words defined with "capsid": virion. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "capsid": gene C ♦ Nucleocapsid. (references) |
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 | The mumps virus is a member of the family of Paramyxoviridae, and is enveloped by a helical ribonucleic-protein capsid, which has a herring-bone-like appearance.Credit: CDC. |  | Transmission electron micrograph of reovirus type 3. Both inner and outer capsid shells are present. Some virions are penetrated by negative stain.Credit: CDC. |
 | Transmission electron micrograph of rotavirus with single-shelled capsid. Cause of infantile gastroenteritis. Negative stain.Credit: CDC. | ||
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| "Capsid" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Capsid" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "capsid": capsid-targeted. | |
Ending with "capsid": double-capsid. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
capsid | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "capsid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | capsid (viral coat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nucleokapside (nucleocapsid, viral coat), kapside (viral coat), enveloppe (envelope, viral coat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viruksen kuori (viral coat), kapsidi (viral coat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | core viral, core, capside virale, capside. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Viruskapsid (viral coat), Virushülle (viral coat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καψίδιο του ιού (viral coat), καψίδιο (viral coat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | capside (viral coat), rivestimento virale (viral coat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apsidcay cápside viral (viral coat), envelope viral (viral coat). (various references) cápside vírica (viral coat), envoltura vírica (viral coat). (various references) kapsid (viral coat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "capsid": capsidal, capsids. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "capsid": nucleocapsid. (additional references) | |
Words containing "capsid": nucleocapsids. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: acids, asdic, aspic, cadis, caids, padis, picas, sapid, spica. | |
-2 letters: acid, aids, asci, cadi, cads, caid, caps, dais, daps, dips, disc, pacs, padi, pads, paid, pias, pica, pics, sadi, said, scad, spic. | |
-3 letters: ads, aid, ais, asp, cad, cap, cis, dap, dip, dis, ids, pac, pad, pas, pia, pic, pis, psi, sac, sad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: capsids. | |
+2 letters: adscript, capsidal, capsized, cuspidal, diphasic, diptycas, dispatch, displace, midspace, pedicabs, peracids, picadors, placoids, scaphoid, spadices, spicated, spondaic, sporadic. | |
+3 letters: adscripts, asclepiad, cadetship, cuspidate, displaced, displaces, dropsical, dysphasic, handicaps, handpicks, inclasped, midspaces, misplaced, misspaced, pandemics, picadores, pickadils, pilchards, practised, rhapsodic, scaphoids, slipcased, spasmodic, speciated, spondaics. | |
+4 letters: acidophils, adipocytes, appendices, asclepiads, cadetships, candlepins, capsulized, chipboards, clipboards, crispbread, despicable, despicably, discrepant, dispatched, dispatcher, dispatches, displacing, duplicates, dysphasics, dysplastic, episodical, headpieces, impedances, mispatched, paradisaic, paradisiac, paramedics, parodistic, parricides, patricides, pedagogics, pederastic, pediatrics, picofarads, placidness, predacious, predicates, prosodical, quadriceps, scorpaenid, septicidal, sporicidal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 70 73 69 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--. ... .. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01110011 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p s i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 0073 0069 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376782857570 |
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