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Polypeptide

Definition: Polypeptide

Polypeptide

Noun

1. A peptide containing 10 to more than 100 amino acids.

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

Date "polypeptide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Polypeptide

DomainDefinitions

Health

A peptide which on hydrolysis yields more than two amino acids; called tripeptides, tetrapeptides, etc. according to the number of amino acids contained. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Polypeptide

English words defined with "polypeptide": bacitracingastrinsubtilintrypsin, tyrocidin, tyrocidineViocin, viomycin. (references)
Specialty definitions using "polypeptide": Acyl Carrier Protein, Amino Acid Sequence, Aminopeptidases, amino-terminal, amino-terminal amino acid, ApaminBee Venomscarboxy-terminal, carboxy-terminal amino acid, Codon, Terminator, Conserved Sequence, Cosyntropin, C-terminal, c-terminal amino acidDipeptidyl PeptidasesEchinomycin, Elapid Venoms, elongation factor, Enteroglucagon, Epidermal Growth FactorFetal Hemoglobin, Fibroblast Growth Factor, BasicGastric Inhibitory Polypeptide, gene expression, gene therapy, Glia Maturation Factor, Glycopeptides, Gonadotropins, Equine, growth factorHemoglobins, AbnormalImmunoglobulin Idiotypes, Immunoglobulins, Heavy-Chain, Immunoglobulins, J-Chain, Immunoglobulins, Light-Chainlight chainMollusk Venoms, Motilin, MSH-Releasing Hormone, MycobacillinNetropsin, Nisin, nonsense codon, N-terminal amino acidPancreatic Polypeptide, PDGF, Pentagastrin, Pepsin A, Peptide Chain Initiation, Peptide Chain Termination, Pituitary Hormone Release Inhibiting Hormones, platelets-derived growth factor, Procollagen, Proenzymes, proinsulin, Prolactin Release-Inhibiting Hormone, Prolactin-Releasing Hormone, Protein Conformation, Protein Hybridization, Protein Methyltransferases, Protein Structure, Quaternary, Protein Structure, Secondary, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Pyroglutamyl-Peptidase IReceptor, IGF Type 2, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta, Receptors, Interleukin-1, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, RNA, Ribosomal, 18S, RNA, Ribosomal, 23S, RNA, Ribosomal, 28S, RNA, Ribosomal, 5.8S, RNA, Ribosomal, 5SSignal Recognition Particle, Sincalide, Somatostatin, stop codon, Streptothricins, Structural Bodyworktermination codon, terminator codon, TGF alpha, Tissue Polypeptide Antigen, transfer ribonucleic acid, transfer RNA, transforming growth factor alpha, t-RNA, Tropocollagen, Troponin C, Troponin I, Troponin TVasoactive Intestinal Peptide, Viral Tail Proteins, Virginiamycin. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Polypeptide" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (polypeptide).

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Commercial Usage: Polypeptide

DomainTitle

Books

  • Assay of protein and polypeptide hormones (reference)

  • Cell membrane receptors for viruses, antigens and antibodies, polypeptide hormones, and small molecules (reference)

  • Non-radiometric assays : technology and application in polypeptide and steroid hormone detection : proceedings of a meeting held in Bethesda, Maryland, October 15-16, 1988 (reference)

  • Polyesters to Polypeptide Synthesis, Volume 12, Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, 2nd Edition (reference)

  • Polypeptide and Protein Drugs: Production, Characterization, and Formulation (Ellis Horwood Series in Pharmaceutical Technology) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Polypeptide

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Protein hybridization allows for hybrid proteins to be formed from polypeptide chains. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Polypeptide

"Polypeptide" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Polypeptide" is used about 133 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 (singular)100%13327,614

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

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Expressions: Polypeptide

Expressions using "polypeptide": Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide Pancreatic Polypeptide Tissue Polypeptide Antigen. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Polypeptide

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

polypeptide

9

laboratory polypeptide

2

chain polypeptide

2

collagen polypeptide

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

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Modern Translation: Polypeptide

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

Chinese 

  

多缩氨基酸. (various references)

   

Danish

  

polypeptid. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

polypeptide. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

polypeptidi. (various references)

   

French

  

polypeptide (m), polypeptide. (various references)

   

German

  

Polypeptid. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πολυπεπτίδιο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

polipeptide. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olypeptidepay

   

Portuguese

  

polipeptídeo, polipéptido. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

polipéptido. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

polypeptid. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Polypeptide

Derivations

Words beginning with "polypeptide": polypeptides. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Polypeptide

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-o-p-p-p-t-y"

-3 letters: lepidote, petioled, polypide.

-4 letters: epidote, epitope, peopled, peppily, peptide, petiole, piloted, plopped, popeyed, poppied, poppled, tepidly, tippled, toppled.

-5 letters: deeply, deploy, diploe, dipole, eloped, etoile, eyelid, lipped, lopped, pelite, pelted, people, pepped, peptid, peyote, peyotl, piolet, pipped, ploidy, ployed, podite, polite, polity, polypi, popped, poppet, popple, potpie, tipped, tipple, toiled, topped, topple, yelped.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-l-o-p-p-p-t-y"
 

+1 letter: polypeptides.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Polypeptide


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

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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)

01010000 01101111 01101100 01111001 01110000 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01100100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 006C 0079 0070 0065 0070 0074 0069 0064 0065

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

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

5081789182718286757071

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Polypeptide"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, cinese, chinês, chino, kinesisk

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse丹麦语, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatie菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk

French

dictionnaire, définition, traduction法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, grek

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzione意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, tradução葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducción西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättning瑞典語 , 瑞典语, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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