Pectin

Definition: Pectin

Pectin

Noun

1. Any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams.

Date "pectin" was first used: 1838. (references)

Etymology: Pectin \Pec"tin\, noun. [Greek expression curdled, congealed, from to make fast or stiff: compare to the French expression pectine.]. (Websters 1913)

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Pectin

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
PE	English	Pectin esterase	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: Pectin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pectin is a carbohydrate in the cell wall of plants. It is a breakdown product from hemicelluloses (protopectins) which is generated during ripening of the fruit. Pectin itself is later broken down to pectinic acid and finally pectic acid. During this chemical breakdown process, the fruit gets softer as the cell walls degenerate.

Apples, plums and oranges contain high pectin, while soft fruits like cherries and strawberries contain few.

Under acidic conditions, pectin forms a gel. This effect is used for making jams and jellies.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pectin."

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Crosswords: Pectin

English words defined with "pectin": Grossulin ♦ Kaopectate ♦ Metapectic, Metapectin ♦ Parapectin, pectic, Pectose, Pectosic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pectin": pectin esterase. (references)

Etymologies containing "pectin": Parapectin. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Pectin

Domain	Title
Books	The Chemistry and Technology of Pectin (Food Science and Technology) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Pectin

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Kaolin and pectin have been widely used for diarrhea. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pectin

"Pectin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pectin" is used about 13 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%	13	97,576

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

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Expression: Pectin

Expression using "pectin": pectin esterase. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pectin

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
pectin	191	pectin sorbet	3
apple pectin	39	bulk pectin	3
grapefruit pectin	26	certo liquid pectin	3
fruit pectin	21	apple pectin benefit	3
certo pectin	21	jam pectin recipe strawberry	3
modified citrus pectin	16	arthritis grape juice pectin	3
citrus pectin	13	c clinical pectin vitamin	3
mcp pectin	8	pectin pomonas	3
certo fruit pectin	8	arthritis pectin	3
pectin pomonas universal	7	jam pectin	2
liquid pectin	5	canning pectin	2
kaolin and pectin	5	gel pectin sure	2
pectin purple	4	no pectin sugar	2
disease heart pectin	4	drug pectin test	2
apple pectin shampoo	4	dry pectin	2
c pectin vitamin	4	drug fruit pectin test	2
pectin recipe	3	pectin use	2
ball pectin	3	homemade pectin	2
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Modern Translations: Pectin

Language		Translations for "pectin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pektin. (various references)

Arabic		‏الغشاء المشطي. (various references)

Bulgarian		пектин. (various references)

Chinese		果胶. (various references)

Danish		pektin-esterase (pectin esterase). (various references)

Dutch		pectinase-enzym (pectin esterase). (various references)

Finnish		pektiiniesteraasi (pectin esterase), pektaasi (pectin esterase). (various references)

French		pectine. (various references)

German		pektin. (various references)

Greek		πηκτίνη. (various references)

Hungarian		pektin. (various references)

Italian		pectina. (various references)

Pig Latin		ectinpay

Portuguese		hipócrita (cant, canting, dissembler, double, double dealing, double-faced hammer, hypocrite, hypocritical, hypodermic, insincerity, prudish, sanctimonious, self-righteous, two faced, two-tongued). (various references)

Romanian		pectinã. (various references)

Russian		пектин. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pektin. (various references)

Spanish		pectina. (various references)

Swedish		pektin. (various references)

Turkish		pelte (gel, jell, jelly, mush), pektin. (various references)

Ukranian		пектин. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pectin

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	pektikos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pectin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pectin": pectinaceous, pectinate, pectination, pectinations, pectines, pectinesterase, pectinesterases, pectins. (additional references)
	Words ending with "pectin": amylopectin. (additional references)
	Words containing "pectin": amylopectins, disrespecting, expecting, inspecting, introspecting, prospecting, reinspecting, respecting, retrospecting, spectinomycin, spectinomycins, suspecting, unsuspecting, unsuspectingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pectin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lectin, pechi, pechin, pectine, pectinid, pectinids, pectins, pectus, Peggity, pelten, Pestano, petian, petin, Petrin, Piccin, picti, Plestin, Pochin, putin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pectin"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pectin" (pronounced pe"kti'n)
3	-t i' n	cortin, erythropoietin, keratin, lattin, Patin, progestin, Quintin.
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Anagrams: Pectin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: incept.
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-p-t"
	-1 letter: inept.
	-2 letters: cent, cine, cite, epic, etic, nice, nite, pein, pent, pice, pine, pint, tine.
	-3 letters: cep, ice, net, nip, nit, pec, pen, pet, pic, pie, pin, pit, ten, tic, tie, tin, tip.
	-4 letters: en, et, in, it, ne, pe, pi, ti.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-p-t"
	+1 letter: entopic, incepts, inspect, nepotic, pectins, picante.
	+2 letters: entropic, haptenic, incepted, inceptor, inspects, leptonic, patience, pectines, pedantic, pentomic, peptonic, phenetic, phonetic, pitchmen, pittance, precinct, prentice, terpenic, unpoetic.
	+3 letters: accepting, analeptic, anapestic, captained, captioned, carpeting, cathepsin, centipede, coempting, competing, crepitant, deception, depicting, depiction, epicenter, excepting, exception, excipient, expecting, genotypic, impotence, impotency, incepting, inception, inceptive, inceptors, incipient, inculpate, inspected, inspector, intercept, intercrop, nephritic, nephrotic, nitpicked, nitpicker, nonpoetic, packeting, patencies, patiences, pectinate, pectizing, penitence, phenacite, phenetics, phonetics, phrenetic, picketing, pittances, pneumatic, pocketing, potencies, preacting, precincts, prenticed, prentices, prescient, princelet, punchiest, reception, recipient, reinspect, sceptring, sphincter, splenetic.
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