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Definition: Serine |
SerineNoun1. A sweetish crystalline amino acid involved in the synthesis by the body of cysteine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Serine \Ser"ine\, noun. [Latin expression sericus silken.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Health | A non-essential amino acid occurring in natural form as the L-isomer. It is synthesized from glycine or threonine. It is involved in the biosynthesis of purines, pyrimidines, and other amino acids. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Serine is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids on Earth.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Serine."
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| "Serine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 73.68% of the time. "Serine" is used about 19 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 73.68% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.32% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "serine": Serine Endopeptidases ♦ Serine Proteinase Inhibitors. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "serine": serine-rich, serine-threonine, Serine-tRNA, Serine-tRNA Ligase. | |
Ending with "serine": l-serine. | |
Containing "serine": CDPdiacylglycerol-Serine O-Phosphatidyltransferase, L-Serine Dehydratase. | |
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| 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. |
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phosphatidyl serine | 31 |
serine | 31 |
serine protease | 7 |
l serine | 5 |
amateur facial serine | 3 |
elastase inhibitor serine | 3 |
mariah serine | 2 |
phosphorylated serine | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "serine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 丝氨酸. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | serin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | serine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seriini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sérine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Serin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ορίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | serina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erinesay serina. (various references) serina. (various references) serin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "serine": serines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "serine": anserine, cycloserine, eserine, nonpasserine, passerine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "serine": anserines, cycloserines, eserines, passerines. (additional references) | |
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"Serine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aerine, Aserbine, derine, erine, errine, eserine, nerine, Saarinen, Sagrinae, saine, Saranne, sarcinet, sarene, Sarianne, Sarice, Sarie, Sarina, sarine, saringe, sarinic, Sarnia, sasine, searne, Sebrand, seran, Serana, serance, Serbin, sereen, Serein, serele, Sereni, sereno, Sereny, Sergipe, Sergiyev, Serhienko, Seriana, sericea, serien, serifed, serin, serines, sering, seringe, serins, serion, serite, serive, serne, Sernin, Seron, Serono, Serpina, serran, serranid, serring, Serrone, serrure, Seurin, Sevigne, Sifrin, sirien, soarine, srene, strine, Surin, surine, sutine, Sverige, Verine, Ziranek. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "serine" (pronounced 'Ser"ine'): Amine, Apocodeine, Brabantine, Bronzine, Butylamine, Buxine, Cacaine, Caffeine, Carbamine, Codeine, Cross-examine, Cystine, Erythrophleine, Lophine, Lydine, melamine, Methylamine, Monamine, Mytilotoxine, Myxine, Naphthylamine, Nardine, narine, nervine, Parkesine, Peptotoxine, Phenylamine, Phloramine, Phycophaeine, Preexamine, Quinoidine, reexamine, Rudolphine, Sinamine, Stibine, Suine, Sylphine, Synallaxine, Tyrotoxine, Verine, Warine, Wrightine. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nereis, seiner, serein. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ernes, reins, resin, rinse, risen, seine, serin, siree, siren, sneer. | |
-2 letters: erne, erns, ires, rees, rein, reis, rins, rise, seen, seer, sene, sere, sine, sire. | |
-3 letters: ens, ere, ern, ers, ins, ire, nee, ree, rei, res, rin, see, sei, sen, ser, sin, sir, sri. | |
-4 letters: en, er, es, in, is, ne, re, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: deniers, entires, entries, enviers, erepsin, ermines, eserine, greisen, henries, inheres, inverse, liernes, nereids, newsier, refines, relines, repines, rerisen, reshine, resined, retines, seiners, sereins, serines, sincere, trienes, veiners, venires, versine, weiners, wieners. | |
+2 letters: alieners, anergies, anserine, arenites, arsenide, arsenite, berlines, deerskin, definers, designer, direness, eeriness, eloiners, emersion, energids, energies, energise, enlister, enquires, enriches, enshrine, enticers, enuresis, erepsins, eringoes, errhines, eserines, esurient, eternise, eversion, feigners, ferniest, fineries, frenzies, generics, gentries, gesneria, greenies, greenish, greisens, heroines, immenser, inbreeds, increase, indexers, indorsee, infester, innerves, insecure, inserted, inserter, insetter, insphere, integers, intenser, interest, internes, intersex, inverses, isoprene, kernites, kerosine, licenser, listener, liveners, misenter, naperies, nearside, nerdiest, nereides, nereises, nerviest, nervines, neurines, niteries, oneriest, penuries, pilsener, pineries, pioneers, prerinse, rebegins, reclines, redenies, redesign, redlines, reedings, reenlist, reesting, refiners, regimens, rehinges, reinfuse, reinless, reinsert, reinsmen, reinsure, reinters, reinvest, rentiers, repiners, reseeing, resewing, reshined, reshines, resident, resigned, resigner, resinate, resupine, retinues, reunites, rewidens, rifeness, ripeners, ripeness, secretin, seigneur, sentries, serenity, serotine, severing, sewering, sheenier, sheering, sickener, silencer, silenter, sincerer, sinecure, sintered, sirvente, sneakier, sneering, sneezier, sniveler, speering, spermine, squireen, stearine, steering, sternite, teensier, terrines, trainees, trendies, trientes, uneasier, universe, uredines, veneries, verniers, vernixes, versines, vineries, weensier, wideners, wineries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 72 69 6E 65 |
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