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COSMIDS

Specialty Definition: COSMIDS

DomainDefinition

Health

Plasmids containing at least one cos (cohesive-end site) of phage lambda. They are used as cloning vehicles for the study of aberrant eukaryotic structural genes and also as genetic vectors for introducing the nucleic acid of transforming viruses into cultured cells. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: COSMIDS

"COSMIDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COSMIDS" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%2865,706

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

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Anagrams: COSMIDS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-i-m-o-s-s"

-1 letter: discos, osmics.

-2 letters: disco, discs, domic, misdo, misos, osmic, sodic.

-3 letters: cods, coss, dims, disc, diss, docs, doms, doss, isms, mids, miso, miss, mocs, modi, mods, moss, odic, sics, sims, sods.

-4 letters: cis, cod, cos, dim, dis, doc, dom, dos, ids, ism, mid, mis, moc, mod, mos, ods, oms, sic, sim, sis, sod, som.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-i-m-o-s-s"
 

+1 letter: miscodes.

 

+2 letters: camisados, dioecisms, domestics, spasmodic.

 

+3 letters: camisadoes, customised, dichroisms, dicrotisms, discomfits, discompose, misfocused, misrecords, scombroids.

 

+4 letters: caddisworms, dictyosomes, disaccustom, discomforts, discommends, discommodes, discomposed, discomposes, disconfirms, midsections, misconducts, misericords, misfocussed, sardonicism.

 

+5 letters: caudillismos, chrysomelids, commissioned, comradeships, decommission, dichotomists, dipsomaniacs, disaccustoms, discomposing, discomposure, diseconomies, domesticates, microseconds, milliseconds, misconstrued, misericordes, nondomestics, sardonicisms, sextodecimos.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COSMIDS


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

43 4F 53 4D 49 44 53

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)

01000011 01001111 01010011 01001101 01001001 01000100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#83 &#77 &#73 &#68 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0053 004D 0049 0044 0053

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

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

37495347433853

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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