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Definition: Nicotine |
NicotineNoun1. An alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nicotine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Etymology: Nicotine \Nic"o*tine\, noun. [French expression nicotine. See Nicotian.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Nicotinic alkaloids. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Nicotine is highly toxic alkaloid. It is the prototypical agonist at nicotinic cholinergic receptors where it dramatically stimulates neurons and ultimately blocks synaptic transmission. Nicotine is also important medically because of its presence in tobacco smoke. (references) |
Literature | Nicotine (3 syl.) is so named from Jean Nicot, Lord of Villemain, who purchased some tobacco at Lisbon in 1560, introduced it into France, and had the honour of fixing his name on the plant. Our word tobacco is from the Indian tabaco (the tube used by the Indians for inhaling the smoke). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The chemical formula of nicotine is C10H14N2 and the structure is
This structure is reflected in the official name 3-(2-(N-methylpyrrolidinyl))pyridine.
Nicotine is water soluble and can be extracted
by leaving the cut tobacco in a glass of water for 12 hours.
The CAS number of nicotine is 54-11-5.Chemical properties
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nicotine."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Poison, toxin; teratogen; leaven, virus venom; arsenic; antimony, tartar emetic; strychnine, nicotine; miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas; pest. |
Pungency | Nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar; cigar, cigarette; weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier, rappee, stogy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nicotine |
| English words defined with "nicotine": Isonicotine ♦ Nicotidine, nicotine addiction, nicotine poisoning, Nicotinic ♦ vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nicotine": Botanical Pesticide, Botanical pesticides ♦ cotinine ♦ nickin', nicotine amblyopia ♦ Oligohydramnios ♦ Receptors, Cholinergic, Receptors, Muscarinic, Receptors, Nicotinic ♦ straight-edge ♦ Uar. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nicotine": Isonicotine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nicotine" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (nicotine). |
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Screenplays | A delivery device for Nicotine. (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth) Okay, I think it's time to change someone's nicotine patch. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) She proposes that nicotine is a gift from the gods, and if men may benefit from its soothing qualities, why then may women not also? (Topsy-Turvy; writing credit: Mike Leigh) It won't be the nicotine that kills you, Mr. Bond. (You Only Live Twice; writing credit: Roald Dahl) | |
Lyrics | I've been living on coffee and nicotine ("Everyday is a Winding Road"; performing artist: Sheryl Crow) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In the Nicotine (1961) The Smoke Fairy Princess Nicotine; or (1909) Nicotine Dreams (1998) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "We don't want to inhale nicotine" says the child on this Soviet poster. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Novosti.. |  | Tar, Carbon Monoxide and Nicotine Yields of Cigarettes : Smokers die younger!.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Carry Nation | Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. |
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Health | Yes, nicotine is addictive. (references) | |
Chronic exposure to nicotine results in addiction. (references) | ||
Nicotine can act as both a stimulant and a sedative. (references) | ||
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| "Nicotine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nicotine" is used about 183 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 (singular) | 100% | 183 | 22,794 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nicotine": nicotine addiction ♦ nicotine amblyopia ♦ nicotine fit ♦ nicotine poisoning. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "nicotine": nicotine-dosed, nicotine-laden, nicotine-stained, nicotine-yellowed. | |
Ending with "nicotine": anti-nicotine. | |
| 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 |
nicotine | 608 |
nicotine patch | 166 |
nicotine withdrawal | 132 |
nicotine addiction | 107 |
nicotine gum | 76 |
nicotine anonymous | 52 |
nicotine withdrawl | 46 |
nicotine free cigarette | 45 |
nicotine withdrawal symptom | 45 |
effects of nicotine | 37 |
nicotine test | 29 |
blood test nicotine | 26 |
nicotine inhaler | 24 |
nicotine testing | 24 |
nicotine poisoning | 18 |
alzheimers nicotine | 17 |
nicotine withdrawl symptom | 16 |
nicotine in blood | 15 |
nicotine fact | 15 |
nicotine urine test | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nicotine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nikotinë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نيكوتين مادة في التبغ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | никотин. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 尼古丁 (Nicotinic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nikotin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nikotin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nicotine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نیکوتین . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nikotiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nicotine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nikotin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νικοτίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יקוטין. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nikotin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | nikotin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nicotina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 脂 (fat, lard, resin, sleep in one's eyes, tallow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ニコチン , やに (resin, sleep in one's eyes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 니"틴. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | nicoteen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icotinenay nicotina (nicotinism), fumante (smoker). (various references) nicotinã. (various references) никотин. (various references) nikotin. (various references) nicotina. (various references) nikotin (nicotian). (various references) สารนิโคตินในยาสูบหรือบุหรี่. (various references) nikotin. (various references) нікотин. (various references) nicôtin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nicotine": nicotines. (additional references) | |
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"Nicotine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hikotani, Kikoine, Narodnie, Niccolin, Niccolino, niciciana, nicoise, nicotania, nicoteen, nicotene, nicotin, nicotinate, Nicotinell, Nikitina, Niodini, nycodenz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nicotine" (pronounced ni"kutē'n) |
| 4 | -u t ē' n | carotene, guillotine. |
| 3 | -t ē' n | argentine, elephantine, Holstein, libertine, mangosteen, protein, quarantine. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-n-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: coniine, nicotin. | |
-2 letters: conine, incite, intine, intone, nocent, noetic, notice. | |
-3 letters: cento, conin, conte, inion, ionic, niton, nonce, nonet, ontic, tenon, tonic, tonne. | |
-4 letters: cent, cine, cion, cite, coin, cone, coni, conn, cote, etic, icon, inti, into, neon, nice, nine, nite, none, note, once, otic, tine, tone. | |
-5 letters: con, cot, eon, ice, inn, ion, net, nit, not, one, ten, tic, tie, tin, toe, ton. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: inception, incondite, infection, injection, nicotines. | |
+2 letters: bentonitic, centillion, coincident, conceiting, concertini, extinction, inceptions, infections, inflection, injections, inspection, interionic, noncitizen, nonmimetic, omnificent, omniscient, sectioning. | |
+3 letters: benediction, centillions, cointerring, coinventing, conditioned, conditioner, declination, decondition, discontinue, enunciation, extinctions, fibronectin, incinerator, inconscient, incontinent, indirection, inflections, inspections, interaction, internuncio, necrotizing, noncitizens, nondiabetic, nontheistic, pectination, phonetician, recognition, recondition, reinfection, reinjection. | |
+4 letters: antieconomic, antientropic, antiviolence, benedictions, canonicities, coincidental, coincidently, concertizing, concinnities, concretizing, conditioners, confidential, congeniality, connectivity, containerise, containerize, continuative, continuities, declinations, deconditions, denunciation, deracination, discontinued, discontinues, disinfection, emancipation, enantiomeric, enunciations, fibronectins, incineration, incinerators, inclinometer, inconsistent, incontinence, incontinency, inconvenient, indirections, indiscretion, indoctrinate, indomethacin, inflectional, insurrection, intellection, interactions, interception, intercession, interdiction, interjection, interlocking, internuncios, interoceanic, intersection, introjecting, introjection, isoantigenic, nicotinamide, nonaddictive, nonantigenic, noncertified, noncognitive, nondiabetics, nondirective, nonidentical, noninductive, noninfective, nonrealistic, nonscientist, omnisciently, oncogenicity, pectinations, phoneticians, precognition, precondition, preinduction, recognitions, reconditions, reconvicting, reconviction, reinfections, reinjections, reinspection, renunciation, reunionistic, sanctimonies, somnifacient. | |
+5 letters: amniocentesis, antiobscenity, antirecession, antirejection, autoinfection, beneficiation, circumvention, clotheslining, complimenting, concentricity, conditionable, conscientious, consideration, consistencies, containerised, containerises, containerized, containerizes, containership, contaminative, contingencies, counterfiring, countermining, declinational, deconditioned, densification, denticulation, denunciations, deracinations, disconcerting, disconnecting, disconnection, discontenting, disinfections, emancipations, fianchettoing, fictioneering, functionaries, immunogenetic, incarceration, incinerations, inclinometers, incongruities, inconsecutive, inconsiderate, inconsistence, inconsistency, inconstancies, incontinences, incontinently, inconvertible, inconvertibly, indiscretions, indoctrinated, indoctrinates, indomethacins, insurrections, intellections, interactional, intercalation, interceptions, intercessions, intercolonial, intercropping, intercrossing, interdictions, interjections, intersections, introjections, introspecting, introspection, mechanization, micronutrient, miscegenation, misconception, misconnecting, misconnection, misfunctioned, necessitation, nicotinamides, nitroglycerin, noncreativity, noninfectious, nonscientific, nonscientists, nonspecialist, postinfection, postinjection, precautioning, precognitions, preconditions, preconviction, preinductions, recombination, reconditioned, reconnoitring, reconvictions, recrimination, rediscounting, reincarnation, reinoculating, reinoculation, reinspections, reintroducing, renunciations, reunification, revaccination, somnifacients, spectinomycin, triamcinolone, unconditioned, undoctrinaire. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 63 6F 74 69 6E 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)-. .. -.-. --- - .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01100011 01101111 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i c o t i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0063 006F 0074 0069 006E 0065 |
| 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)4875698186758071 |
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