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Definition: IgE |
IgENoun1. 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. |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
IgE | Danish | Immunglobulin E | Medicine |
IGE | English | Interactive graphic editor | N/A |
IgE | French | Immunoglobuline E | Medicine |
IgE | German | Immunoglobin E | N/A |
IgE | Greek | ανοσοσφαιρίνη E | Medicine |
IgE | Spanish | Inmunoglobulina E | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: IgESynonym: 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). |
Crosswords: IgE |
| Specialty definitions using "IgE": Antibodies, Helminth, Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary ♦ Desensitization, Immunologic ♦ Histamine Release ♦ Immunoglobulins, Immunoglobulins, epsilon-Chain ♦ Radioallergosorbent Test, Receptors, IgE ♦ Wiskott-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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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Sweden | International Gold Exploration IGE AB |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. | |
| 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 |
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. | |
| 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. | ||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 67 45 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. --. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I g E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0067 0045 |
| 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)437339 |
| 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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