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Definition: Gluten |
GlutenNoun1. A protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Gluten \Glu"ten\, noun. [Latin expression, glue: compare to the French expression gluten. See Glue.]. (references) |
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Health | The protein of wheat and other grains which gives to the dough its tough elastic character. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gluten is a protein found primarily in wheat, which is responsible for the elasticity of kneaded dough which allows it to be leavened, as well as the "chewiness" of baked products like bagels. It can be extracted and cooked to provide a very convincing mock meat, due to its "stringy" texture.
Gluten can be extracted by hand via a time consuming process, or purchased in powdered form from health food stores.
A popular gluten mock-meat product is seitan, which is gluten that's been cooked in a broth to give it a flavor similar to that of beef.
Some people appear to have an allergy to gluten and choose to go on a gluten-free diet. People with Celiac disease are not able to properly process gluten in their digestive system and must avoid it entirely.
People with autism and autistic spectrum disorders, like Asperger's disorder, may be sensitive to gluten and casein (the protein in milk). See more at gluten-free, casein-free diet.
Gluten is found in wheat and therefore in all products derived from it, including bread, pastry, flour, and many breakfast cereals.
Gluten is used heavily in Chinese Buddhist cuisine.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gluten."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Semiliquidity | Jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten; carlock, fish glue; ichthyocol, ichthycolla; isinglass; mucus, phlegm, goo; pituite, lava; glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein; treacle; gum, size, glue (tenacity); wax, beeswax. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gluten |
| English words defined with "gluten": Aleurometer ♦ corn gluten, corn gluten feed ♦ durum, durum wheat ♦ Gliadin, Glutamic, Glutamic acid, Gluten bread, gluten-free diet ♦ hard wheat ♦ maccaroni wheat, Middlings, Mucedin ♦ Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum ♦ Vegeto-animal ♦ wheat gluten ♦ Zein, Zymome. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gluten": CENTRIFUGE OPERATOR, chocolate maker, CHOCOLATE TEMPERER, chocolate-mixer operator ♦ DRIER OPERATOR ♦ FEED BLENDER, flaker operator ♦ GLUTEN-SETTLING TENDER ♦ SEPARATOR TENDER II, SHAKER WASHER, SUPERVISOR, FEED HOUSE, SUPERVISOR, MILL HOUSE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gluten": Glutinous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gluten" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (gluten), Dutch (gluten), French (gluten), German (gluten), Latin (glue), Serbo-Croatian (gluten), Spanish (gluten), Swedish (gluten). |
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Screenplays | Gluten for punishment (The Great Muppet Caper; writing credit: Jerry Juhl; Tom Patchett) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Leavened bread has been around a long while-since the days of ancient Egypt, Babylon and Greece, in fact. Then, as now, it was made from wheat, or from a mixture of wheat and rye. The elastic gluten in wheat is essential for bread to rise. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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Health | With practice, screening for gluten becomes second nature. (references) | |
Eating any gluten, no matter how small an amount, can damage the intestine. (references) | ||
A wheat-free diet may also bring relief since the gluten in flour sometimes causes diarrhea. (references) | ||
Economic History | Portugal | Corn Gluten Feed led the CY-1999 U.S. agricultural value exports into Portugal, with $ 46 million, unchanged from CY-1998. (references) |
Ireland | Reduced consumption due to lower prices for cattle (as producers reduce the use of non-grass based feed ingredients in the winter months) has been further hindered by farmer reaction to disease outbreaks, especially BSE and FMD. Large quantities of corn gluten feed (CGF) and other byproducts of the brewing industry such as corn sprout pellets continue to be imported. (references) | |
Chile | Based on size, market growth rate and the U.S. competitive position in the market, the following individual products have the greatest potential for sale in Chile: corn; wheat; corn gluten feed; forage seeds; pet food; soy protein isolates and concentrates; oak staves for wine barrels; candy; processed cheese; condiments; snack foods; nutritional sport bars; frozen dinner entrees; and edible nuts. (references) | |
Trade | Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) |
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| "Gluten" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gluten" is used about 180 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% | 180 | 23,046 |
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Expressions using "gluten": corn gluten ♦ corn gluten feed ♦ Gluten bread ♦ Gluten casein ♦ Gluten fibrin ♦ Gluten Sensitive Enteropathy ♦ wheat gluten. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "gluten": gluten-free, gluten-free diet. | |
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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 "gluten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | غراء (glue), الغلوتين, الدابوق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глутен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 面筋. (various references) | |
Danish | gluten. (various references) | |
Dutch | gluten. (various references) | |
Farsi | موم اندراب , ماده چسبنده گندم , چسب (Agglutinate, Glue, Gum, Lime, Mucilage, Paste), سریشی که ازشاخ واستخوان بدست میاید. (various references) | |
French | gluten. (various references) | |
German | kleber (adhesive, filming agent, sticker), gluten. (various references) | |
Greek | γλουτένη. (various references) | |
Hungarian | glutin, sikér. (various references) | |
Indonesian | perekat (glue, goo). (various references) | |
Italian | glutine. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 麩質 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふしつ (Very Sincerely Yours). (various references) | |
Manx | gleiyane. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utenglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glúten, glúten. (various references) | |
Russian | клейковина. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gluten. (various references) | |
Spanish | gluten, de gluten. (various references) | |
Swedish | gluten. (various references) | |
Thai | โปรตีนจากข้าว. (various references) | |
Turkish | glüten, yapışkan madde (goo, gunk). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | клейковина (fibrin), глютен. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gluten": glutenous, glutens. (additional references) | |
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"Gluten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fluten, glaten, glauben, glete, glien, glite, gliten, glote, Glouston, glute, glutein, gluteno, glutes, glutien, glution, gluton, glutte, glutten, glutun, glutuny, glytex, Glytona, gouten, gulpen, guten, gutin, gutten, Kloten, luten, Lutken. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gluten" (pronounced gluw"tun) |
| 5 | -l uw" t u n | highfalutin. |
| 4 | -uw" t u n | Newton. |
| 3 | -t u n | fatten, actin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: englut. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-l-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: lunet, lunge, unlet. | |
-2 letters: gelt, gent, genu, glen, glue, glut, lent, luge, lune, lung, lunt, lute, tule, tune, tung. | |
-3 letters: eng, gel, gen, get, gnu, gul, gun, gut, leg, let, leu, lug, net, nut, teg, tel, ten, tug, tun. | |
-4 letters: el, en, et, ne, nu, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-l-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: eluting, engluts, fulgent, glutens, gruntle, languet. | |
+2 letters: angulate, cultigen, exulting, gauntlet, glutelin, gruntled, gruntles, gunmetal, jelutong, languets, ungentle, ungently, ungulate, untangle, urgently. | |
+3 letters: angulated, angulates, bulleting, cingulate, cultigens, effulgent, emulating, englutted, fulgently, gauntlets, genuflect, gluconate, glutamine, glutelins, glutenous, granulate, granulite, gunmetals, indulgent, jelutongs, jungliest, langouste, lecturing, longitude, lustering, pungently, refulgent, relucting, resulting, sleuthing, tunneling, unbelting, ungenteel, ungulates, untangled, untangles. | |
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