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"HORMONES" is a plural of: hormone. |
Date "HORMONES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Chemicals, found in plants and animals, that stimulate action and bring about a response at some distance from their point of origin. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Chemical substances having a specific regulatory effect on the activity of a certain organ or organs. The term was originally applied to substances secreted by various endocrine glands and transported in the bloodstream to the target organs. It is sometimes extended to include those substances that are not produced by the endocrine glands but that have similar effects. (references) |
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Screenplays | That was shallow, cheap, and based solely on hormones. Works for me! (Freakazoid!; writing credit: Alan Burnett; Paul Dini) Add that to raging hormones and I guarantee you I am absolutely entitled to do the 'crying thing'. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) My wife thinks it's the artificial hormones in beef. (Millennium; writing credit: Eric Knight) My hormones don't rage. (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) I'm a man; I got a lot of hormones in my body. (I Love You to Death; writing credit: John Kostmayer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Raging Hormones (1999) Married with Hormones (1991) Raging Hormones (1988) | |
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Pictured is a breast cancer cell, photographed by a scanning electron microscope, which produces a 3-dimensional images. This picture shows the overall shape of the cell's surface at a very high magnification. Cancer cells are best identified by internal details, but research with a scanning electron microscope can show how cells respond in changing environments and can show mapping distribution of binding sites of hormones and other biological molecules. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | P. acnes is associated with the disease acne, an infection within the skin's oil producing glands, leading to the formation of pimples. Hormones play a crucial role in this process. Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | Lengthwise view of the rat brain showing the brain regions in which certain stress hormones (i.e., endogenous opioids) are released. Credit: NIAA. | ![]() | Mechanisms of Secretion of Neurotransmitters and Hormones. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Chemical analysis for cortisone and related hormones in body fluids. / National Institutes of Health photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Exogenous hormones and dysfunctional... Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These hormones also have a contra-insulin effect. (references) | |
They weaken because they no longer get female hormones. (references) | ||
A combination patch containing both hormones is now available. (references) | ||
Business | Since 1989, the EU has prohibited importation of beef from cattle treated with growth hormones. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | U.S. agriculture exports have shown solid growth in recent years, though resistance to foods containing GMOs and hormones is growing. (references) |
India | Opportunities also exists for relaxin, rennin, clot-dissolving agents, insulin, interferons, interleukins and anticancer therapeutics, human growth hormones, erythropoietin, blood factors VIII & XI, urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator, streptokinase tissue necrosis factor. (references) | |
Pakistan | There is good market potential for antibiotics, vaccines, therapeutic medicines, analgesics, tranquilizers, hormones, blood pressure control drugs, anti-ulcerants, drugs for the treatment of cardiac conditions, cancer, psychiatric drugs, contraceptives and birth control prescriptions. (references) | |
Political Economy | AUSTRIA | The EU ban on beef imports from cattle treated with hormones severely restricts U.S. exports of beef to Austria. (references) |
Ireland | For example, Ireland supported the EU stance in the recently resolved U.S.-EU banana dispute, and endorses the EU's decision to ban imports of U.S. beef from cattle treated with approved growth hormones. (references) | |
SWITZERLAND | Methods not allowed in Switzerland include the use of hormones, antibiotics and other anti-microbial substances in the raising of beef and pork as well as the production of eggs from chickens kept in certain types of battery cages. (references) | |
Trade | Luxembourg | American-raised beef treated with hormones also may not be imported under EU regulations. (references) |
Costa Rica | Special labeling requirements apply to pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, veterinary preparations, vaccines, poisonous substances, and mouthwashes. (references) | |
Spain | EU regulations on hormones ban most U.S. beef and beef products from entry into the EU. In addition, EU health regulations on live cattle ban U.S. high genetic cattle imports. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HORMONES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.42% of the time. "HORMONES" is used about 279 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) | 96.42% | 269 | 17,948 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.23% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.36% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 279 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "HORMONES": Gastrointestinal Hormones ♦ Hypothalamic Hormones ♦ Insect Hormones ♦ Invertebrate Hormones ♦ Juvenile Hormones ♦ Pancreatic Hormones ♦ Parathyroid Hormones ♦ Pituitary Hormone Release Inhibiting Hormones ♦ Pituitary Hormone-Releasing Hormones ♦ Pituitary Hormones ♦ Placental Hormones ♦ plant hormones ♦ Progestational Hormones ♦ Sex hormones ♦ Testicular Hormones ♦ Thymus Hormones ♦ Thyroid Hormones. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HORMONES": anti-hormones, phyto-hormones. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HORMONES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hormoner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hormonen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hormoni (hormone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hormone (hormone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hormone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ορμόναι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ormoni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ormoneshay hormonas. (various references) hormonas. (various references) hormoner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "HORMONES": neurohormones, parathormones, phytohormones. (additional references) | |
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"HORMONES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: harmans, harmone, harmones, hermanos, hermeneus, hogmanays, horemone, horminum, hormo, hormon, ormondes, ormones. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HORMONES" (pronounced hô"rmō'nz) |
| 4 | -m ō' n z | daimones, pheromones. |
| 3 | -ō' n z | allophones, cheekbones, cherrystones, cobblestones, cornerstones, crossbones, earphones, gallstones, gemstones, gladstones, gravestones, hailstones, headphones, headstones, limestones, megaphones, microphones, milestones, overtones, rhinestones, saxophones, silicones, telephones, tombstones, undertones. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: moorhens. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-m-n-o-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: hormone, moorhen, onshore. | |
-2 letters: herons, homers, honers, honors, morons, morose, mosher, nooser, nosher, romeos, senhor, sermon, sooner. | |
-3 letters: enorm, herms, herns, heron, heros, hoers, homer, homes, homos, honer, hones, honor, horns, horse, hosen, meson, monos, moons, moors, moose, mores, morns, moron, morse, nomes, nomos, noose, norms, omens, omers, romeo, rooms, roose, senor, shoer. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-m-n-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: neomorphs. | |
+2 letters: chromogens, endomorphs, homeowners, horsewoman, horsewomen, monorhymes, moonshiner, morphogens, pheromones. | |
+3 letters: gramophones, homopterans, mesonephroi, mesonephros, microphones, monochromes, moonshiners, nephrostome, neurohumors, resmoothing. | |
+4 letters: apomorphines, chondriosome, chronometers, endomorphies, endomorphism, hemoproteins, heteronomies, heteronomous, homogenizers, honeymooners, humorousness, longshoreman, longshoremen, melanophores, moonlighters, nephrostomes, nomographies, northernmost, southernmost, theobromines, thromboxanes, whoremongers. | |
+5 letters: adrenochromes, amorphousness, chemisorption, chondriosomes, chromocenters, chronometries, comprehension, enantiomorphs, endomorphisms, fashionmonger, hymenopterons, hymenopterous, morphogeneses, morphogenesis, neurohormones, normothermias, parathormones, phytohormones, rhodomontades, rhombohedrons, thrombokinase. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 52 4D 4F 4E 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- .-. -- --- -. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01010010 01001101 01001111 01001110 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O R M O N E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 0052 004D 004F 004E 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4249524749483953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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