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IgE

Definition: IgE

IgE

Noun

1. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; present primarily in the skin and mucous membranes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"IgE" is a common misspelling or typo for: age, ago, gibe, give, i.e., ice, ire.

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: IgE

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

IgE

DanishImmunglobulin EMedicine

IGE

EnglishInteractive graphic editorN/A

IgE

FrenchImmunoglobuline EMedicine

IgE

GermanImmunoglobin EN/A

IgE

Greekανοσοσφαιρίνη EMedicine

IgE

SpanishInmunoglobulina EMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: IgE

Synonym: immunoglobulin E (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: immunoglobulin E (medicine), immunoglobulin IgE, in ground effect (post & telecom, transportation), Institution of Gas Engineers (labor), Interactive graphic editor (computing), International General Electric Co. (electrical engineering).

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Crosswords: IgE

Specialty definitions using "IgE": Antibodies, Helminth, Aspergillosis, Allergic BronchopulmonaryDesensitization, ImmunologicHistamine ReleaseImmunoglobulins, Immunoglobulins, epsilon-ChainRadioallergosorbent Test, Receptors, IgEWiskott-Aldrich Syndrome. (references)
Non-English Usage: "IgE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (verb, word).

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Commercial Usage: IgE

DomainTitle

References

  • International Gold Exploration IGE AB: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • New chimeric monoclonal antibodies against human carcinomas : IgE and bispecific antibody-mediated therapy (reference)

  • Ige Receptor (Fc&Ri) Function in Mast Cells and Basophils (Molecular Biology Intelligent Unit) (reference)

  • IGE receptor (FceRI) function in mast cells and basophils (reference)

  • IgE, Mast Cells and the Allergic Response - Symposium No. 147 (reference)

  • Allergy, including Ige in diagnosis and treatment : from the 36th annual meeting of the American Society of Ophthalmologic and Otolaryngolic Allergy (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: IgE

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The IgE is then released and attaches to the surface of mast cells. (references)

Skin tests are one way of measuring the level of IgE antibody in a patient. (references)

These tests measure the presence of food-specific IgE in the blood of patients. (references)

Human Rights

Nigeria

On December 23 in Ibadan, Justice Minister Bola Ige was killed in his home. (references)

Nigeria

By year's end, the police reportedly had detained a 27-year-old man who confessed to being a member of an eight-man gang who shot Ige in exchange for $8,960 (1 million naira). (references)

Nigeria

There was widespread speculation that Ige and others were killed in connection with the political dispute between the Osun State Governor, Bisi Akanda, and Osun State Deputy Governor, Iyiola Omisore. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: IgE

"IgE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "IgE" is used about 3 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 (proper)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: IgE

CountryName
Sweden

International Gold Exploration IGE AB

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: IgE

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "IgE": ige-mediated.

Ending with "IgE": Adeniji-ige.

Containing "IgE": non-ige-mediated.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: IgE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ige

68

ige antibody

7

anti ige

7

hyper ige

4

ige xao

4

ige level

4

ige mouse

3

ige blood test

3

ige serum

3

elevated ige

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: IgE

Language Translations for "IgE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

immunglobulin E (immunoglobulin E, immunoglobulin IgE). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

immunoglobuline E (immunoglobulin E, immunoglobulin IgE). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

immunoglobuliini E (immunoglobulin E, immunoglobulin IgE). (various references)

   

French

  

immunoglobuline E sérique (serum IgE), immunoglobuline E (immunoglobulin IgE), IgE sérique (serum IgE). (various references)

   

German

  

Immunoglobin E (immunoglobulin E, immunoglobulin IgE), Reagin (immunoglobulin E, immunoglobulin IgE). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αντίσωμα IgE (IgE antibody, immunoglobulin E antibody), αντίσωμα ανοσοσφαιρινών Ε (IgE antibody, immunoglobulin E antibody), ανοσοσφαιρίνη E (immunoglobulin E, immunoglobulin IgE). (various references)

   

Italian

  

immunoglobuline E (immunoglobulin E, immunoglobulin IgE). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igeay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

inmunoglobulina E (immunoglobulin E, immunoglobulin IgE). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: IgE

Derivations

Words ending with "IgE": beige, disoblige, greige, neglige, oblige, pfennige, prestige, vestige. (additional references)

Words containing "IgE": alloantigen, alloantigens, anorexigenic, antigen, antigene, antigenes, antigenic, antigenically, antigenicities, antigenicity, antigens, armiger, armigeral, armigero, armigeros, armigerous, armigers, beiges, belligerence, belligerences, belligerencies, belligerency, belligerent, belligerently, belligerents, bigeminal, bigeminies, bigeminy, bigeneric, bigeye, bigeyes, braunschweiger, braunschweigers, chigetai, chigetais, cobelligerent, cobelligerents, corrigenda, corrigendum, counterintelligence, counterintelligences, cultigen, cultigens, digenetic, digest, digested, digester, digesters, digestibilities, digestibility, digestible, digesting, digestion, digestions, digestive, digestively, digestives, digestor, digestors, digests, digitoxigenin, digitoxigenins, diligence, diligences, diligent, diligently, disobliged, disobliges, eigenmode, eigenmodes, eigenvalue, eigenvalues, eigenvector, eigenvectors, epigeal, epigean, epigeic, epigene, epigeneses, epigenesis, epigenetic, epigenetically, epigenic, epigeous, erigeron, erigerons, exigence, exigences, exigencies, exigency, exigent, exigently, figeater, figeaters, florigen, florigenic, florigens, greiges, hyperintelligent, indigen, indigence, indigences, indigene, indigenes, indigenization, indigenizations, indigenize, indigenized, indigenizes, indigenizing, indigenous, indigenously, indigenousness, indigenousnesses, indigens, indigent, indigents, indigested, indigestibilities, indigestibility, indigestible, indigestibles, indigestion, indigestions, intelligence, intelligencer, intelligencers, intelligences, intelligent, intelligential, intelligently, intelligentsia, intelligentsias, intransigeance, intransigeances, intransigeant, intransigeantly, intransigeants, intransigence, intransigences, intransigent, intransigently, intransigents, isoantigen, isoantigenic, isoantigens, liger, ligers, multigenerational, multigenic, multigerm, negligee, negligees, negligence, negligences, negligent, negligently, negliges, nonantigenic, nonbelligerencies, nonbelligerency, nonbelligerent, nonbelligerents, nonindigenous, nonnegligent, obliged, obligee, obligees, obliger, obligers, obliges, perigeal, perigean, perigee, perigees, pigeon, pigeonhole, pigeonholed, pigeonholer, pigeonholers, pigeonholes, pigeonholing, pigeonite, pigeonites, pigeons, pigeonwing, pigeonwings, predigest, predigested, predigesting, predigestion, predigestions, predigests, prestigeful, prestiges, redigest, redigested, redigesting, redigestion, redigestions, redigests, refrigerant, refrigerants, refrigerate, refrigerated, refrigerates, refrigerating, refrigeration, refrigerations, refrigerator, refrigerators, remiges, shigella, shigellae, shigellas, shigelloses, shigellosis, stravaiged, superintelligence, superintelligences, superintelligent, terrigenous, tiger, tigereye, tigereyes, tigerish, tigerishly, tigerishness, tigerishnesses, tigerlike, tigers, toxigenic, toxigenicities, toxigenicity, trigeminal, trigeminals, tumorigeneses, tumorigenesis, tumorigenic, tumorigenicities, tumorigenicity, unbelligerent, undigested, undigestible, unintelligent, unintelligently, unrefrigerated, veliger, veligers, verbigeration, verbigerations, vestiges, vigesimal, weigela, weigelas, weigelia, weigelias, wigeon, wigeons. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: IgE

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gie.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i"
 

+1 letter: egis, gibe, gied, gien, gies, give.

 

+2 letters: aegis, aggie, agile, begin, beige, beigy, being, bewig, bilge, binge, bogie, deign, dinge, dirge, dogie, eight, eking, eying, feign, fidge, fogie, gelid, genic, genie, genii, genip, geoid, gibed, giber, gibes, gighe, gigue, gimel, gimme, given, giver, gives, glide, glime, gride, grief, grime, gripe, guide, guile, guise, heigh, hinge, image, ingle, legit, liege, liger, midge, neigh, ogive, reign, renig, rerig, ridge, segni, sengi, siege, singe, tiger, tinge, vegie, vogie, weigh.

 

+3 letters: ageing, ageism, ageist, aggies, agnize, aiglet, aigret, augite, aweigh, aweing, baggie, begins, begird, begirt, begrim, beiges, beings, benign, bewigs, bigeye, bigger, biggie, bilged, bilges, binged, binger, binges, biogen, bogies, boogie, bougie, bridge, budgie, cagier, ceding, cering, chigoe, coigne, cringe, cueing, degami, deigns, deking, design, dewing, dieing, digest, digged, digger, dinged, dinger, dinges, dingey, dingle, dirges, doggie, dogies, dreigh, driegh, dyeing, earing, earwig, easing, eating, ebbing, eching, edgier, edgily, edging, effigy, egging, egises, egoism, egoist, eighth, eights, eighty, elegit, eloign, emigre, ending, engild, engine, engird, engirt, enigma, ensign, epigon, epilog, eringo, erring, eyeing, feeing, feigns, feting, feuing, fidged, fidges, fidget, figged, figure, finger, fogies, fridge, fringe, gabies, gaeing, gaiety, gained, gainer, gaited, gaiter, gamier, gamine, gawsie, geeing, geisha, gelati, genial, genies, genips, genius, gentil, geodic, geoids, gerbil, gestic, gibbed, gibber, gibbet, gibers, giblet, gieing, gifted, gigged, giggle, giglet, gigues, gilded, gilder, gilled, giller, gillie, gimels, gimlet, gimmes, gimmie, gimped, ginger, ginned, ginner, gipped, gipper, girded, girder, girdle, girlie, girned, girted, givens, givers, glaire, glaive, glided, glider, glides, glimed, glimes, gluier, glutei, gneiss, goalie, gobies, goiter, goitre, goodie, gooier, goonie, gorier, greige, grided, grides, griefs, grieve, griffe, grille, grilse, grimed, grimes, griped, griper, gripes, gripey, grippe, grivet, guided, guider, guides, guiled, guiles, guimpe, guinea, guised, guises, gunite, gussie, haeing, hegari, hegira, height, hewing, hexing, hieing, higgle, higher, hinged, hinger, hinges, hoagie, hoeing, hogtie, ignite, ignore, imaged, imager, images, incage, ingate, ingest, ingles, jeeing, jewing, jigged, jigger, jiggle, jingle, keying, kinged, leggin, legion, legist, legits, lieges, ligase, ligate, ligers, ligule, ligure, linage, linger, loggie, logier, luggie, magpie, maigre, megilp, megrim, meting, mewing, midges, midget, midleg, miggle, milage, mingle, mirage, moggie, neighs, nidget, nigger, niggle, nighed, nigher, oblige, ogives, orgies, peeing, pieing, pigeon, pigged, piggie, piglet, pigpen, pinged, pinger, pipage, pogies, reagin, reding, regain, regild, regilt, regime, regina, region, regius, regive, reguli, reigns, renigs, rerigs, resign, ridged, ridgel, ridges, rigged, rigger, ringed, ringer, rivage, sagier, seeing, sering, sewing, sexing, sieged, sieges, sighed, sigher, signed, signee, signer, signet, silage, singed, singer, singes, single, skeigh, sleigh, smidge, soigne, stogie, swinge, teeing, tewing, tieing, tigers, tinged, tinges, tingle, toeing, triage, twinge, uglier, uglies, vagile, veggie, vegies, vexing, visage, wedgie, weighs, weight, whinge, widget, wigeon, wigged, wiggle, wiglet, winged, winger, zigged, zinged, zinger.

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

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Alternative Orthography: IgE


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

49 67 45

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01100111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#103 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0067 0045

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

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

437339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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