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GASTRINS

"GASTRINS" is a plural of: gastrin.


Specialty Definition: GASTRINS

DomainDefinition

Health

A family of gastrointestinal peptide hormones that excite the secretion of gastric juices. They may also occur in the central nervous system where they are presumed to be neurotransmitters. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: GASTRINS

"GASTRINS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GASTRINS" is used about 13 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%1397,576

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

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Anagrams: GASTRINS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: gastrin, gratins, instars, ratings, santirs, staring, strains, strings.

-2 letters: agists, angsts, assign, gainst, giants, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, grists, instar, rasing, rating, saints, santir, sarins, sating, satins, sistra, sitars, staigs, stains, stairs, stangs, stings, strain, strang, string, taring, trains.

-3 letters: agist, airns, airts, angst, antis, arsis, astir, gains, gaits, garni, gasts, giant, girns.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: asserting, assorting, astringes, ganisters, organists, starlings, stingrays.

 

+2 letters: gannisters, hamstrings, satirising, signatures, stingarees, strappings, streakings, streamings, thrashings.

 

+3 letters: agronomists, asterisking, astringents, designators, drawstrings, gangsterish, gangsterism, generalists, instigators, misstarting, nasogastric, organicists, ostracising, panegyrists, plasterings, reasserting, reassorting, registrants, ringmasters, scatterings, sergeanties, signatories, smatterings, springtails, stargazings, starvelings, straightens, stranguries, stringhalts, supergiants, teargassing, transfusing, transposing, trespassing, waitressing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GASTRINS


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

47 41 53 54 52 49 4E 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)

01000111 01000001 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 0053 0054 0052 0049 004E 0053

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

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

4135535452434853

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INDEX

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


  

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