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Definition: GONADS |
GONADSPlural1. Of Gonad |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The gamete-producing glands, ovary or testis. (references) |
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Crosswords: GONADS |
| English words defined with "GONADS": agonadal ♦ glucocorticoid, gonadal, gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotropin ♦ hypogonadism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GONADS": Gonadal Dysgenesis, 46,XY, Gonadotropins, Pituitary ♦ Marek Disease ♦ Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal ♦ Paraganglia, Chromaffin ♦ Receptors, LHRH ♦ Sterol O-Acyltransferase ♦ Testicular Feminization. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GONADS": gonad. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | In the gonads! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
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Health | Two areas of the brain, the hypothalamus and the pituitary, release hormones, as do glands in other parts of the body, such as the thyroid, adrenal glands, gonads, pancreas, and parathyroid. (references) | |
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| "GONADS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GONADS" is used about 22 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 (plural) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
gonads strife | 220 |
gonads | 57 |
gonads in strife | 5 |
team gonads | 3 |
gonads squirrel strife | 3 |
gonads strife video | 3 |
gonads in lightning | 2 |
gonads picture | 2 |
gonads stife | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GONADS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 性腺 (gonad). (various references) | |
Danish | den foreliggende undersoegelse indeholder en vurdering af den gennemsnitlige gonadedosis pr. person fra fjernsynsapparater i hjemmene (the present study includes an estimate of the average per capita dose to the gonads from home television sets), da 226 Ra hovedsageligt udsender alfastraaler, er bestraalingen af gonaderne og knoglemarven uvaesentlig (because the radiation emitted by Ra 226 is mainly alpha, the irradiation of the gonads and bone marrow is negligible). (various references) | |
Dutch | daar het Ra 226 hoofdzakelijk alfastralen uitzendt, is de bestraling van de gonaden ( geslachtsklieren ) en van het beenmerg niet noemenswaardig (because the radiation emitted by Ra 226 is mainly alpha, the irradiation of the gonads and bone marrow is negligible), bij dit onderzoek is tevens een schatting gemaakt van de gemiddelde gonadendosis per hoofd, afkomstig van huiskamertelevisie-ontvangers (the present study includes an estimate of the average per capita dose to the gonads from home television sets). (various references) | |
French | la présente étude comprend une estimation de la dose moyenne par tête, absorbée par les gonades, en provenance de téléviseurs domestiques (the present study includes an estimate of the average per capita dose to the gonads from home television sets). (various references) | |
German | Keimdrüsen. (various references) | |
Greek | επειδή η ακτινοβολία που εκπέμπεται από το Rα 226 είναι κυρίως α,η ακτινοβόληση των γονάδων και του μυελού των οστών είναι αμελητέα (because the radiation emitted by Ra 226 is mainly alpha, the irradiation of the gonads and bone marrow is negligible), Η παρούσα μελέτη περιλαμβάνει μια εκτίμηση της μέσης κατά κεφαλή δό-σης που απορροφάται από τους γονάδες και που προέρχεται από συσκευές ο (the present study includes an estimate of the average per capita dose to the gonads from home television sets). (various references) | |
Italian | poiche' il Ra 226 emette soprattutto raggi alfa, l'irradiazione delle gonadi e del midollo osseo e' trascurabile (because the radiation emitted by Ra 226 is mainly alpha, the irradiation of the gonads and bone marrow is negligible), lo studio comprende una stima della dose media per capite assorbita dalle gonadi e proveniente dai televisori domestici (the present study includes an estimate of the average per capita dose to the gonads from home television sets). (various references) | |
Korean | 생식선 (gonad, gonadal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onadsgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gônadas. (various references) | |
Spanish | góndolas. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"GONADS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gandais, Genady, gnade, Godards, Gojas, gona, gonade, gonas, gonat, goonda, gunals, gundas, Ogunlade, Vonadk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dongas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: agons, dagos, dangs, donas, donga, dongs, goads, gonad. | |
-2 letters: ados, agon, ands, dago, dags, dang, dogs, dona, dong, dons, gads, goad, goas, gods, nags, naos, nods, nogs, sago, sand, sang, snag, snog, soda, song. | |
-3 letters: ado, ads, ago, and, dag, dog, don, dos, gad, gan, gas, goa, god, gos, nag, nod, nog, nos. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: bandogs, dognaps, dragons, ganoids, hagdons, sandhog. | |
+2 letters: agonised, bondages, cantdogs, decagons, diagnose, dogbanes, dogvanes, dongolas, dragoons, gadroons, goddamns, goldarns, gondolas, gormands, grandson, hangdogs, loadings, mangolds, sandhogs. | |
+3 letters: adsorbing, alongside, amidogens, androgens, anglepods, boardings, dangerous, diagnosed, diagnoses, diagnosis, diagonals, dognapers, downstage, dragomans, dragonets, dragonish, fandangos, gasconade, gladstone, glissando, golcondas, goosander, gourmands, grandiose, grandioso, grandsons, hoardings, longhands, longheads, noseguard, ondograms, organdies, organised, pagandoms, poundages, quandongs, renegados, rigadoons, rigaudons, sangfroid, shadowing, signboard, staghound, vagabonds. | |
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