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Eukaryote

Definition: Eukaryote

Eukaryote

Noun

1. 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)

Specialty Definitions: Eukaryote

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonym: Eukaryote

Synonym: eucaryote (n). (additional references)
Antonym: prokaryote (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Eukaryote

DomainTitle

Books

  • Eukaryote Cell Recognition : Concepts and Model Systems (reference)

  • Regulation of growth and differentiated function in eukaryote cells (reference)

  • The Eukaryote chromosome : papers presented at a conference held under the auspices of the U.S./Australia Science agreement (reference)

  • The eukaryote genome in development and evolution (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Eukaryote

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eukaryote

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

  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.

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Modern Translations: Eukaryote

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

Chinese 

  

. (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

   

Portuguese

  

célula eucariota (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell), célula eucariótica (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

célula eucariota (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

eukaryot cell (eucaryote, eucaryotic cell, eukaryotic cell). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Eukaryote

Derivations

Words beginning with "eukaryote": eukaryotes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Eukaryote

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Eukaryote


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

45 75 6B 61 72 79 6F 74 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)

01000101 01110101 01101011 01100001 01110010 01111001 01101111 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#117 &#107 &#97 &#114 &#121 &#111 &#116 &#101

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)

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

398777678491818671

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INDEX

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


  

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