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Asparagine

Definition: Asparagine

Asparagine

Noun

1. A crystalline amino acid found in proteins and in many plants (e.g., asparagus).

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

Etymology: Asparagine \As*par"a*gine\, noun. [Compare to the French expression asparagine.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Asparagine

English words defined with "asparagine": Altheine, AsparticMalamide. (references)
Specialty definitions using "asparagine": Aspartate-Ammonia Ligase, AspartylglucosylaminaseRNA, Transfer, Asn. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Asparagine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Asparagine 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 "Asparagine."

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Usage Frequency: Asparagine

"Asparagine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Asparagine" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Asparagine

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

asparagine

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Asparagine

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

Chinese 

  

氨羰基丙氨酸. (various references)

   

Danish

  

asparigin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

asparagine. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

asparagiini. (various references)

   

French

  

asparagine. (various references)

   

German

  

Asparagin. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ασπαραγίνη. (various references)

   

Italian

  

asparagina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asparagineay

   

Portuguese

  

asparagina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

asparraguina, esparraguina. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

asparagin. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Asparagine

Derivations

Words beginning with "asparagine": asparagines. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Asparagine"

Words rhyming with "asparagine" (pronounced 'As*par"a*gine'): Malengine, Protogine, Strigine. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Asparagine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-g-i-n-p-r-s"

-2 letters: anergias, angarias, angaries, apanages, arginase, paganise, parasang, spearing.

-3 letters: anergia, angaria, apanage, earings, erasing, gainers, paesani, paisana, paniers, parangs, parians, parings, parsing, pingers, piranas, rapines, rasping, reagins, reaping, regains, reginas, sangria, searing, seringa, spaeing, sparing, spinage, spiraea, springe.

-4 letters: agapae, agapai, agrias, anears, angers, apneas, arenas, arisen, arpens, arsine, aspire, earing, easing, gainer.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-g-i-n-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: asparagines.

 

+3 letters: megasporangia, paramagnetism.

 

+4 letters: paramagnetisms, septuagenarian.

 

+5 letters: septuagenarians.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Asparagine


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

41 73 70 61 72 61 67 69 6E 65

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)

.-    ...    .--.    .-    .-.    .-    --.    ..    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#115 &#112 &#97 &#114 &#97 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0073 0070 0061 0072 0061 0067 0069 006E 0065

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

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

35858267846773758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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