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Definition: Histone |
HistoneNoun1. A simple protein containing mainly basic amino acids; present in cell nuclei in association with nucleic acids. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Histone |
| Specialty definitions using "histone": core domain ♦ H1 histone molecule, Histone Deacetylase, histone octamer, Histones ♦ octamer ♦ Ribonucleoprotein, U7 Small Nuclear. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Histone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Histone" is used about 39 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% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "histone": H1 histone molecule ♦ Histone Deacetylase ♦ histone octamer. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "histone": histone-like, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase. | |
Ending with "histone": non-histone, Non-Histone. | |
| 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 |
antibody h2a histone | 14 |
histone | 6 |
exchange histone protamine | 2 |
deacetylase histone inhibitor | 2 |
histone deacetylase | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "histone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 组蛋白. (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | histoner. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | histon. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | histone. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Histone. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | istone. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | istonehay histonas. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "histone": histones. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "histone": nonhistone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ethions. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ethion, ethnos, honest, theins, tonish. | |
-2 letters: eosin, ethos, heist, hents, hints, hoise, hoist, hones, hosen, inset, neist, nites, noise, notes, onset, senti, seton, shent, shine, shone, shote, stein, steno, stone, thein, thens, thine, thins, those, tines, tones. | |
-3 letters: eons, eths, hens, hent, hest, hets, hies, hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, hoes, hone, hons. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: hedonist, histogen, histones, holstein, horniest, hotlines, neoliths, ornithes, outshine, phoniest. | |
+2 letters: dishonest, fenthions, hailstone, hedonists, hessonite, histogens, hoatzines, holsteins, honesties, horsemint, hosteling, inthrones, monteiths, monthlies, nontheist, nonwhites, outshined, outshines, phonetics, senhorita, something, stonefish, stonished, stonishes, thermions, thionates, thionines, thiophens, tholepins, thorniest, unholiest, whinstone, xenoliths. | |
+3 letters: aitchbones, anchorites, anorthites, antechoirs, anthelions, antiheroes, astonished, astonishes, beshouting, besoothing, birthstone, chelations, chondrites, clothespin, dishonesty, erythrosin, ethionines, exhaustion, firethorns, frothiness, hailstones, hedonistic, henotheism, henotheist, hesitation, hessonites, hoactzines, holstering, horsemints, hostelling, hostessing, housetrain, hypnotizes, inheritors, lithopones, mentorship, monotheism, monotheist, nephrotics, nightscope, nonhistone, nonhostile, nontheists, ornithines, ornithoses, overnights, overthinks, phenytoins, phonolites, reshooting, rhinestone, rhodonites, senhoritas, shoestring, shortening, smothering, theogonies, theonomies, theorising, thighbones, thiophenes, thorniness, threnodies, threnodist, threonines, thyroxines, touchiness, touchlines, trihedrons, unworthies, whinstones, worthiness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 73 74 6F 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. ... - --- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i s t o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0073 0074 006F 006E 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)42758586818071 |
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