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LIGANDS

"LIGANDS" is a plural of: ligand.


Specialty Definition: LIGANDS

DomainDefinition

Health

A RNA simulation method developed by the MIT. (references)

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Crosswords: LIGANDS

Specialty definitions using "LIGANDS": Cell Adhesion Molecules, Cell Adhesion Molecules, NeuronalIntegrinsReceptor Cross-Talk, Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha, Receptors, Adrenergic, beta, Receptors, Bombesin, Receptors, Cell Surface, Receptors, Complement 3d, Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear, Receptors, Dopamine D1, Receptors, Dopamine D2, Receptors, Opioidserial enrichment of ligands exponentially, Surface Plasmon Resonance. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LIGANDS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Early Transition Metal Clusters with pi-Donor Ligands (reference)

  • Ligands and Modifiers in Vitreous Materials: Spectroscopy of Condensed Systems (reference)

  • Metal Ions in Biological Systems: Amino Acids and Derivatives As Ambivalent Ligands (reference)

  • Multiple Dopamine Receptors: Receptor Binding Studies in Dopamine Pharmacology (Receptors and Ligands in Intercellular Communication Ser, Vol 1) (reference)

  • Toll-Like Receptor Familiy Members and Their Ligands (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: LIGANDS

"LIGANDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.14% of the time. "LIGANDS" is used about 70 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 (plural)97.14%6840,606
Lexical Verb (-s form)2.86%2245,945
                    Total100.00%70N/A

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

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Expression: LIGANDS

Expressions using "LIGANDS": serial enrichment of ligands exponentially Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "LIGANDS": self-ligands.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LIGANDS

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

ligands

11
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Modern Translation: LIGANDS

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

French

  

SELEX (serial enrichment of ligands exponentially), sélection de ligands par enrichissement exponentiel (serial enrichment of ligands exponentially). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igandslay

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Rhyming with "LIGANDS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "LIGANDS" (pronounced li"gundz)
4-u n d zalmonds, diamonds, Docklands, errands, Highlands, Hollands, husbands, islands, legends, milliseconds, nanoseconds, seconds, stipends, thousands, uplands.
3-n d zabounds, amends, ands, armbands, ascends, astounds, attends, backgrounds, Badlands, bands, battlegrounds, befriends, behinds, bends, binds, blends, blinds, blondes, blonds, bloodhounds, bonds, bookends, bounds, boyfriends, brands, bunds, campgrounds, commands, commends, compounds, confounds, contends, corresponds, defends, demands, depends, descends, dividends, ends, expands, expounds, extends, fairgrounds, farmhands, farmlands, fends, fiends, finds, Firebrands, flatlands, forehands, friends, fronds, funds, girlfriends, glands, grands, grasslands, grinds, grounds, hands, handstands, headbands, hinds, hinterlands, homelands, hounds, intends, kinds, lands, lends, lowlands, marshlands, masterminds, Meadowlands, Midlands, minds, misunderstands, moorlands, mounds, newsstands, offends, overspends, playgrounds, ponds, portends, pounds, pretends, quicksands, rands, rebounds, recommends, refunds, reminds, reprimands, responds, rinds, rounds, sands, sends, sounds, spacebands, spends, stagehands, stands, strands, surrounds, suspends, tends, Timberlands, transcends, trends, turnarounds, understands, vagabonds, wands, weekends, wends, wetlands, winds, withstands, woodlands, woodwinds, wounds.

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Anagrams: LIGANDS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ladings.

Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-s"

-1 letter: algins, aligns, glands, island, lading, lasing, liangs, ligand, ligans, lingas, signal.

-2 letters: algid, algin, align, anils, dangs, dials, dings, gadis, gains, gilds, glads, gland, glans, glias, lands, liang, ligan, linga, lings, nails, nidal, slain, slang, sling, snail.

-3 letters: agin, aids, ails, ains, ands, anil, anis, dags, dais, dals, dang, dial, digs, ding, dins.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-s"
 

+1 letter: darlings, dealings, dialings, gliadins, landings, leadings, loadings, saddling, sandling, scalding, signaled.

 

+2 letters: alongside, blindages, claddings, dabblings, dashingly, desalting, diagonals, diallings, dialysing, disabling, draglines, ensilaged, gliadines, glissandi, glissando, guildsman, handlings, highlands, islanding, paddlings, pleadings, sandaling, sandlings, signalled, springald, swaddling, windgalls.

 

+3 letters: amygdalins, anglicised, declassing, desolating, digitalins, displacing, displaying, disvaluing, escalading, galvanised, gavelkinds, girandoles, glissading, glissandos, handseling, idealising, languished, misaligned, misdealing, misdialing, misleading, palisading, resaddling, salmagundi, sandalling, sanderling, scandaling, signalised, signalized, slandering, sloganized, spraddling, springalds, straddling, unsaddling.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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