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Definition: Eosin |
EosinNoun1. A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studying cell structures. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Eosin \E"o*sin\, noun. [Greek expression dawn.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: EosinSynonym: bromeosin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eosin |
| English words defined with "eosin": eosinophil, eosinophile ♦ Resorcin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eosin": Eosinophils. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Eosin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (eosin). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Perivascular inflammatory cell infiltrates in hematoxylin & eosin stained brain tissue. (references) | |
When brain tissue from rabies virus-infected animals are stained with a histologic stain, such as hematoxylin and eosin, evidence of encephalomyelitis may be recognized by a trained microscopist. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Eosin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eosin" is used about 48 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% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "eosin": haematoxylin-eosin-safran. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
eosin | 15 |
eosin hematoxylin | 3 |
eosin panther | 3 |
eosin y | 2 |
eosin hematoxylin staining | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eosin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 四溴荧光 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | eosin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eosine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | éosine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Eosin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εοζίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | eozin, tertrabrómfluor-eszcein. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eosina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eosinay eosina. (various references) eosina. (various references) eosin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eosin": eosine, eosines, eosinic, eosinophil, eosinophilia, eosinophilias, eosinophilic, eosinophils, eosins. (additional references) | |
Words containing "eosin": teosinte, teosintes. (additional references) | |
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"Eosin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: besoin, eain, easain, Edsiv, Eisen, eisi, Eizan, elohim, elsan, Elsing, Elsyng, ensin, ensino, eoi, eolian, eosat, eose, eosen, eosi, eosine, eoz, erosin, Ersin, esan, esi, esin, esn, essan, essen, euesong, Eusi, Eutin, exsin, Eyssen, Geesin, Isin, Kosmin, Lelooskin, Leofsine, okosan, opsin, Osmin, owsin, ozin, teosinte, Zeesen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "eosin" (pronounced 'E"o*sin'): Alkarsin, Ambrosin, Amylopsin, Anchusin, BASIN, Biliprasin, Catch-basin, Cerasin, Ceresin, Cerosin, Chamsin, Cremosin, Crimosin, Damassin, Dyslysin, Elsin, Emulsin, Erythrosin, Gentisin, Haematosin, Hematosin, Isopepsin, Kerasin, Marcassin, moccasin, Monesin, Myosin, Myrosin, Pepsin, Phrenosin, Quassin, Raisin, Sarcosin, Sasin, Seisin, Sepsin, Spadassin, Steapsin, tocsin, trypsin, Tyrosin, Unsin, Zuisin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: noise. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: eons, ions, noes, nose, ones, sine, sone. | |
-2 letters: ens, eon, ins, ion, nos, oes, one, ons, ose, sei, sen, sin, son. | |
-3 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, no, oe, on, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: conies, cosine, donsie, eikons, eloins, enokis, enosis, envois, eonism, eosine, eosins, essoin, icones, insole, ionise, irones, koines, lesion, monies, noesis, noised, noises, nosier, nowise, oleins, onside, opines, oscine, ossein, ovines, ponies, senior, soigne, sonsie, sozine, winoes. | |
+2 letters: acinose, agonies, agonise, anisole, anomies, atonies, benison, biogens, bizones, boniest, boonies, bovines, cession, cineols, codeins, cognise, coignes, coiners, concise, conines, cosines, cronies, dineros, dingoes, doeskin, domines, ebonies, ebonise, eikones, elision, eloigns, elusion, emodins, enjoins, entoils, envious, eonisms, eosines, eosinic, epigons, epinaos, epsilon, erasion, eringos, erosion, essoins, ethions, evasion, genoise, goonies, heinous, heroins, histone, hoidens, homines, honkies, igneous, ignores, impones, inclose, incomes, indoles, indorse, inosite, inshore, insoles, intones, invokes, iodines, ionised, ionises, ionizes, ionones, ironers, ironies, isogeny, isogone, isoline, isotone, jingoes, joiners, kenosis, legions, lesions, lingoes, lioness, lionise, lomeins, longies, loonies, merinos, mesonic, mestino, misdone, moisten, nerolis, niellos, niveous, noddies, noisier, noisome, nookies, norites, nosiest, notices, novices, oestrin, olefins, oleines, orceins, ordines, orients, orpines, oscines, osseins, ozonise, pension, peonies, peonism, phonies, pigeons, pingoes, pinkoes, pinoles, pinones, pintoes, pointes, recoins, regions, rejoins, renvois, rosined, secondi, section, senecio, seniors, senopia, sentimo, session, shoeing, signore, sinopie, snowier, soignee, sonlike, sonnies, sonsier, sordine, sozines, spinose, stonier, tension, toniest, townies, toxines, urinose, venison, version, wigeons, winesop, winsome. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6F 73 69 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101111 01110011 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E o s i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006F 0073 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3981857580 |
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