Carbohydrate

Definition: Carbohydrate

Carbohydrate

Noun

1. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain.

Note: Carbohydrate \Car`bo*hy"drate\, noun. [Carbon hydrate.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Carbohydrate

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Any carbohydrate which is metabolized in man, including polyols. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	An aldehyde or ketone derivative of a polyhydric alcohol, particularly of the pentahydric and hexahydric alcohols. They are so named because the hydrogen and oxygen are usually in the proportion to form water, (CH2O)n. The most important carbohydrates are the starches, sugars, celluloses, and gums. They are classified into mono-, di-, tri-, poly- and heterosaccharides. (references)
Science	An organic compound present in the cells of all living organisms and a major organic nutrient for human beings; consists of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, and makes up sugar, starch, and cellulose. (references)
	A substance made by green plants during photosynthesis and composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Sugar, cellulose, and starch are carbohydrates. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Carbohydrate

Synonyms: saccharide (n), sugar (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Carbohydrate

English words defined with "carbohydrate": amylum, animal starch, Arabin ♦ carbo loading, carbohydrate loading, chemosynthesis, Cortef, cortisol ♦ Galactin, Gelose, glycogen, glycoprotein ♦ hydrocortisone, Hydrocortone ♦ Levulosan, liver ♦ -ose ♦ Pectose ♦ refined sugar ♦ Saccharate, saccharify, saccharose, Seminose, Sinistrin, starch, Sucrate, sucrose, sugar ♦ Triticin. (references)

Specialty definitions using "carbohydrate": Antigens, CD15, Antigens, Tumor-Associated, Carbohydrate ♦ Ca+-ATPase, CA-125 Antigen, CA-15-3 Antigen, CA-19-9 Antigen, carbo-, Carbohydrate Conformation, Carbohydrate Epimerases, Carbohydrate Sequence, Carbohydrate-Deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome, COLOCASIA ANTIQUORUM, Complement 5a ♦ E-Selectin ♦ Galactosyltransferases, Glucocorticoids, glucoproteins, Glucosyltransferases, Glycopeptides, Glycophorin, Glycosylation, Glycosylphosphatidylinositols, Glycosyltransferases ♦ Immunoglobulins, epsilon-Chain, Immunoglobulins, mu-Chain, infantile beri-beri ♦ lactic fermentation, Leuconostoc ♦ Maillard Reaction, Mannosyltransferases, Molecular Sequence Data, mucoprotein, mucoproteins, Multiple Carboxylase Deficiency ♦ N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferases, N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases, N-Acetylhexosaminyltransferases, Nutritive Value ♦ Pediococcus, potato starch ♦ Seasonal Affective Disorder, Sequence Analysis, Streptavidin ♦ Uridine Diphosphate Galactose, Uridine Diphosphate Glucose. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Carbohydrate

Domain	Title
Books	Dr. Atkins' New Carbohydrate Gram Counter (reference) The Carbohydrate Addict's Cookbook: 250 All-New Low-Carb Recipes That Will Cut Your Cravings and Keep You Slim for Life (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Carbohydrate Economy (reference) Carbohydrate Polymers (reference) Carbohydrate Research (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: Carbohydrate

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Aseptic dispensing of carbohydrate broth. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Carbohydrate

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Table sugar is another carbohydrate that must be digested to be useful. (references)
		Vigorous exercise appears to blunt the rise in blood glucose that follows carbohydrate ingestion. (references)
		A high carbohydrate diet has been shown to increase plasma triglycerides and decrease HDL-C levels. (references)
Business		Consumption of nutritive carbohydrate products in Poland is 120 kg per capita, one of the highest in Europe. (references)
Economic History	Dominican Rep	Rice is the main source of carbohydrate in the Dominican diet. (references)
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Spoken Usage: Carbohydrate

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Robert Atkins	Then ongoing weight loss is really where you find out what your critical carbohydrate level for losing is. And it is a different level for different people.
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Usage Frequency: Carbohydrate

"Carbohydrate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carbohydrate" is used about 330 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)	100%	330	15,812

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

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Expression: Carbohydrate

Expressions using "carbohydrate": Carbohydrate Conformation ♦ Carbohydrate Dehydrogenases ♦ Carbohydrate Epimerases ♦ carbohydrate loading ♦ Carbohydrate Sequence. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "carbohydrate": carbohydrate-based, carbohydrate-binding, carbohydrate-containing, Carbohydrate-Deficient, Carbohydrate-Deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome, carbohydrate-fat, carbohydrate-rich.
	Ending with "carbohydrate": low-carbohydrate.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carbohydrate

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
carbohydrate	5,390	carbohydrate food list	115
carbohydrate counter	2,278	carbohydrate calculator	110
low carbohydrate diet	2,194	alcohol carbohydrate	101
low carbohydrate food	1,269	high carbohydrate food	99
low carbohydrate recipe	901	carbohydrate blocker	99
low carbohydrate	677	beer carbohydrate	94
carbohydrate diet	633	low carbohydrate food list	90
carbohydrate food	435	food high in carbohydrate	82
complex carbohydrate	357	carbohydrate degradation	67
carbohydrate addict diet	293	carbohydrate digestion	65
carbohydrate list	282	carbohydrate in alcohol	65
carbohydrate chart	270	carbohydrate free food	61
carbohydrate count	248	free carbohydrate counter	59
food with no carbohydrate	210	high protein low carbohydrate diet	56
carbohydrate counting	175	simple carbohydrate	54
carbohydrate addict	161	no carbohydrate recipe	53
no carbohydrate diet	136	recipe high protein low carbohydrate	52
carbohydrate gram counter	132	low carbohydrate bread	51
food low in carbohydrate	127	low carbohydrate meal	51
carbohydrate in food	116	carbohydrate content	48
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Modern Translations: Carbohydrate

Language		Translations for "carbohydrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		karbohidrat. (various references)

Arabic		‏كربوهيدراتي, ‏كربوهيدرات. (various references)

Bulgarian		въглехидрат. (various references)

Chinese		醣 , 碳水化合物. (various references)

Czech		uhlovodan, uhlohydrát. (various references)

Danish		kulhydrat. (various references)

Dutch		koolhydraat. (various references)

Farsi		ترکیبات خنثی کربن واکسیژن وهیدرژن . (various references)

Finnish		hiilihydraatti. (various references)

French		carbohydrate, hydrate de charbon, hydrate de carbone, glucide. (various references)

German		kohlenhydrat, Kohlehydrat. (various references)

Greek		υδατάνθρακασ (hydrocarbon), υδατάνθρακας. (various references)

Hebrew		פחמימ�". (various references)

Hungarian		szénhidrát. (various references)

Indonesian		hidrat arang. (various references)

Italian		carboidrato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		炭水化物 , 含水炭� . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		た�"すいかぶつ, が�"すいた�"そ. (various references)

Korean		탄수�"물. (various references)

Manx		carbey-hydraad. (various references)

Pig Latin		arbohydratecay

Portuguese		carboidrato. (various references)

Romanian		hidrocarbonat. (various references)

Russian		углевод (carbo-hydrate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ugljeni hidrat, karbohidrat. (various references)

Spanish		hidrato de carbono, carbohidrato. (various references)

Swedish		kolhydrat. (various references)

Thai		คาร์โบไฮเ�"รต. (various references)

Turkish		karbonhidrat. (various references)

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Carbohydrate

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carbohydrate": carbohydrates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carbohydrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carbonhydrate, cardohydrate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Carbohydrate"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carbohydrate" (pronounced kÄ'rbōhī"drā't or kÄ'rbōhī"drut)
6	-h ī" d r ā' t	hydrate.
3	-r ā' t	administrate, airfreight, arbitrate, aspirate, birthrate, calibrate, castrate, celebrate, concentrate, consecrate, demonstrate, denigrate, disintegrate, emigrate, frustrate, gyrate, illustrate, immigrate, infiltrate, integrate, magistrate, migrate, narrate, nitrate, orchestrate, penetrate, perpetrate, reintegrate, serrate, substrate, vertebrate.
3	-r u t	beret, carat, carrot, culprit, curate, demerit, desperate, elaborate, ferret, garret, inherit, interpret, invertebrate, karat, merit, noncorporate, parrot, pirate, portrait, reinterpret, secret, spirit, supersecret, temperate.
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Anagrams: Carbohydrate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-h-o-r-r-t-y"
	-3 letters: octahedra, tracheary.
	-4 letters: abhorred, arboreta, boatyard, botchery, broached, broacher, carboyed, cathedra, chordate, harbored, hardcore, hydrator, redactor, teaboard.
	-5 letters: aborted, aborter, abrader, abreact, abroach, acrobat, aerator, arbored, archery, arrayed, batched, batcher, bearcat, boarder, borated, botched, botcher, bracero, brachet, bracted, breadth, breathy, broader, brocade, brother, cabaret, carbora, carroty, catarrh, cathead, cathode, charade, charred, charted, charter.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-h-o-r-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: carbohydrates.
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