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Definition: Eukaryote |
EukaryoteNoun1. An organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eukaryote" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | An organism (or a cell) that carries its genetic material physically constrained within a nuclear membrane, separate from the cytoplasm. (references) |
Medicine | An organism(or a cell)that carries its genetic material physically constrained within a nuclear membrane, separate from the cytoplasm. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: EukaryoteSynonym: eucaryote (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: prokaryote (n). (additional references) |
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| "Eukaryote" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eukaryote" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
eukaryote | 11 |
eukaryote prokaryote vs | 4 |
cell eukaryote | 3 |
eukaryote prokaryote | 2 |
energy eukaryote prokaryote | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eukaryote"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 真 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | eukaryot (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic, eukaryotic cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eukaryotische cel (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell), eukaryote cel (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukariote, eukaryotic cell), eukaryont (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell), kernhoudende cel (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | eukaryootti (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | eucaryote (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukariote, eukaryotic, eukaryotic cell), cellule eucaryotique (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell), cellule eucaryote (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Eukaryont (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευκαρυωτικός (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell), ευκαρυωτικό κύτταρο (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eucariota (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic, eukaryotic cell), cellula nucleata (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell, nucleated cell), cellula eucariotica (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eukaryoteay célula eucariota (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell), célula eucariótica (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references) célula eucariota (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references) eukaryot cell (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "eukaryote": eukaryotes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-o-r-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: eatery, eureka, euroky, retake, turkey, tuyere. | |
-4 letters: arete, eater, kaury, korat, kraut, kurta, oater, orate, outer, outre, rakee, reeky, rekey, route, taker, tarok, teary, tokay, toker, toyer, troak, troke, tuyer, urate, yurta. | |
-5 letters: aero, aery, akee, arty, auto, eery, euro, eyer, eyra, eyre, kart, kayo, keet, keto, kore, kyar, kyat, kyte, okay, okra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-k-o-r-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: eukaryotes. | |
+4 letters: mountebankery. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 75 6B 61 72 79 6F 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..- -.- .- .-. -.--. --- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110101 01101011 01100001 01110010 01111001 01101111 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E u k a r y o t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0075 006B 0061 0072 0079 006F 0074 0065 |
| 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)398777678491818671 |
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