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Definition: Repressor |
RepressorNoun1. An agent that represses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | Any of the specific allosteric protein molecules, products of regulator genes, which bind to the operator of operons and prevent RNA polymerase from proceeding into the operon to transcribe messenger RNA. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: RepressorSynonym: represser (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Repressor |
| English words defined with "repressor": regulator gene, regulatory gene, repressor gene. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "repressor": Adenine Nucleotide Translocase ♦ enzyme inducer, enzyme inducing agent ♦ Lutheran Blood-Group System ♦ Oncogene Proteins v-erbA ♦ Repressor Proteins. (references) |
| "Repressor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Repressor" is used about 82 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% | 82 | 36,594 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "repressor": repressor gene ♦ Repressor Proteins. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "repressor": repressor-operator. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "repressor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | усмирител, тиран (tyrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | repressorprotein, repressor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | repressor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | repressori. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | répresseur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Repressor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταστολέας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pemasung (shackler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | repressore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epressorray repressor. (various references) represor. (various references) repressor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "repressor": repressors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "repressor": corepressor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "repressor": corepressors. (additional references) | |
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"Repressor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: regressor, regressors, represor, repressa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-o-p-r-r-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: reposers. | |
-2 letters: presser, pressor, prosers, reposer, reposes, repress. | |
-3 letters: eposes, eroses, errors, perses, posers, proser, proses, repose, repros, rerose, ropers, speers, spores, sprees. | |
-4 letters: erose, error, erses, peers, perse, pesos, pores, poser, poses, posse, prees, prese, press, prose, pross, repos, repro, roper, ropes, roses, seeps, seers, serer, seres, sorer, sores, speer, spore, spree. | |
-5 letters: epos. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-o-p-r-r-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: repressors. | |
+2 letters: corepressor, superorders. | |
+3 letters: corepressors, overpressure, preprocessor, proprietress. | |
+4 letters: cryopreserves, overpressures, preprocessors, respirometers, sharecroppers. | |
+5 letters: overprescribes, proprietresses, respirometries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 72 65 73 73 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. .-. . ... ... --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p r e s s o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 006F 0072 |
| 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)527182847185858184 |
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