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Definition: Lactose |
LactoseNoun1. A sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk; "cow's milk contains about 4.7% lactose". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | Occurs in milk and is produced commercially from whey; used in the preparation of infant foods, in confectionnery, in jam-making and in pharmacy. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Normally, as the young grow up, production of lactase gradually ceases, and they are then unable to metabolise lactose. This is perhaps an evolutionary mechanism to enforce weaning of the young. This loss of lactase on maturation is also the default pattern in most of the human race. However, in some humans (mostly those with ancestry in the approximate geographic region of Europe, the Middle East and India), the enzyme is retained in adulthood, and dairy products form a substantial part of the adult diet. It would appear that millennia of animal husbandry in those regions, with the milking of sheep, cattle, goats and buffalo, has caused an evolutionary adaptation to an adult diet containing milk. (This process of retaining infant characteristics into adulthood is one of the simplest routes of evolutionary adaptation, and is known as neoteny) The fact that at least some humans have made adaptations to lactose in the adult diet would, incidentally, appear to cast doubt on some arguments by proponents of the so-called `Stone-age diet', who argue that human metabolic needs have not changed since the last Ice Age.
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Synonym: LactoseSynonym: milk sugar (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lactose |
| English words defined with "lactose": brain sugar ♦ celiac disease ♦ Dulcite ♦ galactose ♦ Lactaid, lactase, lactase deficiency, Lactin, Lactonic, lactose intolerance, lactosuria ♦ milk intolerance, milk sugar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lactose": beta-galactosidase ♦ galactosidase ♦ Hydrogen Breath Test ♦ Lactose Factors, Lactosylceramides ♦ Milk Hypersensitivity ♦ N-Acetyllactosamine Synthase ♦ Uridine Diphosphate Galactose. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lactose" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (lactose), Portuguese (Lacuna, milk tooth). |
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Screenplays | Lactose Intolerant. ('Til There Was You; writing credit: Winnie Holzman) | |
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Health | The lactose they contain can make diarrhea worse. (references) | |
Some causes of lactose intolerance are well known. (references) | ||
Beano has no effect on gas caused by lactose or fiber. (references) | ||
Business | It provides the electricity and steam requirements of NGC's gas treatment plant, as well as the Lactose New Zealand dairy factory 3km away. Kapuni Energy sells excess electricity of 166 gigawatts into the New Zealand electricity market. (references) | |
Trade | Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) |
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| "Lactose" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lactose" is used about 62 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% | 62 | 42,755 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "lactose": Lactose Factors ♦ lactose intolerance ♦ Lactose Synthase. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "lactose": lactose-free. | |
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| 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 |
lactose intolerance | 609 |
lactose | 225 |
lactose intolerant | 215 |
lactose intolerance symptom | 84 |
lactose free recipe | 23 |
lactose free food | 20 |
lactose free diet | 20 |
lactose free | 15 |
lactose free milk | 14 |
lactose free ice cream | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "lactose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | اللكتوز سكر اللبن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | млечна захар (milk sugar, sugar of milk), лактоза (milk sugar, sugar of milk). (various references) | |
Chinese | 乳糖. (various references) | |
Danish | lactose (milk sugar), maelkesukker (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Dutch | lactose (milk sugar), melksuiker (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Finnish | laktoosin poisto (lactose removal). (various references) | |
French | lactose. (various references) | |
German | milchzucker (milk sugar), laktose (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Greek | γαλακτοσάκχαρο (milk sugar), γαλακτοζάχαρο (milk sugar), λακτόζη (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Italian | lattosio (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ラウリン酸 (La Salle, Lacoste, lacrosse, lager beer, Laos, lasagna, lauric acid, lounge, loungewear, paddle, raccoon, racket, racquetball, radial, radial tire, radian, radium, radius, raglan, ragtime, rational, rationalism, rationalist, rationalization, round, round number, round robin, round table, rug, rugby, rugger), 乳糖 (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラクトーゼ , にゅうとう (bathing at hot springs, joining a political party, milk sugar, nipple, taking a hot bath, teat). (various references) | |
Korean | 당. (various references) | |
Manx | shugyr bainney (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | actoselay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lactose,açúcar do leite (milk sugar), galactômetro. (various references) | |
Romanian | lactozã (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Russian | молочный сахар (milk sugar, milk-sugar), лактоза (milk-sugar). (various references) | |
Spanish | lactosa (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Swedish | laktos, mjölksocker (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Ukranian | лактоза (milk sugar). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | Lactoza, đường sữa. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lactose": lactoses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lactose": galactose. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lactose": galactosemia, galactosemias, galactosemic, galactoses. (additional references) | |
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"Lactose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lactis, lactos, Lipcote, Luctus, mactose. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lactose" (pronounced la"ktōs) |
| 6 | l a" k t ō s | galactose. |
| 3 | -t ō s | Burritos, maltose, Santos. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: locates, talcose. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: castle, cleats, closet, costae, costal, eclats, locate, osteal, solace, solate. | |
-2 letters: alecs, aloes, altos, ascot, calos, caste, cates, celts, cesta, clast, cleat, close, clots, coals, coast, coats, colas, coles, colts, coset, costa, cotes, eclat, escot, laces, least, lotas, octal, scale, setal, slate, socle, stale, steal, stela, stoae, stole, taces, tacos, taels, talcs, tales, teals, telos, tesla, toeas, tolas, toles. | |
-3 letters: aces, acts, alec, ales, aloe, also, alto, alts, ates, calo, case, cast, cate, cats, cels, celt, clot, coal, coat, cola, cole, cols, colt, cost, cote, cots, east, eats, etas, lace, lacs, lase, last, late, lats, leas, lest, lets, loca, lose, lost, lota, lots, oast, oats, ocas, olea, oles, sale, salt, sate, scat, scot, seal, seat, sect, seta, slat, sloe, slot, sola, sole, stoa, tace, taco, tael, talc, tale, taos, teal, teas, tela, tels, toea, toes, tola, tole. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, ale, als, alt, ate, cat, cel, col, cos, cot, eat, els, eta, lac, las, lat, lea, let, lot, oat, oca, oes, ole, ose, sac, sae, sal, sat, sea, sec, sel, set, sol, sot, tae, tao, tas, tea, tel, toe. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, as, at, el, es, et, la, lo, oe, os, so, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: acolytes, calottes, cataloes, cholates, coaliest, coatless, collates, eschalot, lacteous, lactones, lactoses, locaters, locustae, obstacle, osculate, polecats, sectoral, societal. | |
+2 letters: acetoxyls, acrolects, allocates, bluecoats, bootlaces, brocatels, callowest, calotypes, cassoulet, catechols, cattaloes, chelators, chlorates, clodpates, coastline, collarets, colocates, conepatls, conflates, constable, consulate, copulates, corelates, dislocate, ectoplasm, escalator, eschalots, falconets, galactose, localites, locatives, loricates, mislocate, obstacles, octangles, oscillate, osculated, osculates, pectorals, potlaches, relocates, scapolite, sclerotia, sectional, sectorial, socialite, teocallis, trochleas. | |
+3 letters: actionless, adolescent, allosteric, alpenstock, autoclaves, blastocoel, bracteoles, cabriolets, cacomistle, cassoulets, catalogers, catalogues, catchpoles, charlottes, chelations, chocolates, clearstory, coagulates, coalescent, coastlines, cobaltines, cobaltites, cockatiels, coelomates, colligates, collimates, collocates, constables, consulates, correlates, cowlstaves, decathlons, decollates, dislocated, dislocates, ectoplasms, egoistical, escalation, escalators, escalatory, facecloths, forecastle, fortalices, galactoses, gluconates, inoculates, inosculate, latecomers, leucoplast, localities, mislocated, mislocates, neoplastic, nonelastic, nucleators, opalescent, orchestral, orthoclase, oscillated, oscillates, osteoclast, outclassed, outclasses, peculators, percolates, pleonastic, potlatches, relocatees, sacerdotal, scapolites, schoolmate, scleromata, sclerotial, sectionals, socialites, societally, solacement, speculator, tolerances, tracheoles, trochlears, vocalities, wyliecoats. | |
+4 letters: acoelomates, actinolites, adolescents, aeroelastic, alpenstocks, apologetics, bisectional, blastocoele, blastocoels, brocatelles, cacomistles, cajolements, callosities, cantaloupes, captionless, catabolites, catabolizes, cataloguers, celebrators, chalcocites, chlorinates, cholestases, cholestasis, cholestatic, citronellas, cleistogamy, clofibrates, coelacanths, coevalities, colatitudes, colemanites, collaterals, colportages, compatibles, complicates, conciliates, conglobates, consolidate, constellate, construable, contestable, conventuals, copulatives, correlators, cutaneously, defalcators, ectoplasmic, edulcorates, egotistical, ejaculators, elastomeric, electorates, elucidators, emasculator, escalations, eschatology, eucalyptols, explicators, facetiously, flocculates, forecastles, galactoside, glauconites, glycosylate, grapholects, heptachlors, inosculated, inosculates, intercostal, lacerations, lactiferous, leucoplasts, loquacities, malcontents, malefactors, melanocytes, meroblastic, misallocate, novaculites, nucleations, obstetrical, orthoclases, osteoclasts, outbalances, patchoulies, peculations, percolators, polychaetes, pratincoles, reallocates, relocations, replicators, saddlecloth, sansculotte, scatologies, schoolmates, sectionally, socialities, solacements, speculation, speculators, spirochetal, tablecloths, tenaciously, translocate, ulcerations, vorticellas, watercolors. | |
+5 letters: accelerators, acetylations, adolescently, altercations, amylopectins, anecdotalism, anecdotalist, anticyclones, antinucleons, archeologist, autecologies, autoeciously, bibliothecas, blastocoeles, blastocoelic, borosilicate, calorimeters, cancelations, carboxylates, catholicates, catholicizes, catholicoses, celebrations, cephalothins, chocolatiers, citronellals, clearstories, cleistogamic, cocultivates, coequalities, coleopterans, collaborates, collectables, comicalities, commonalties, concealments, conceptacles, confabulates, congealments, congelations, consolidated, consolidates, constellated, constellates, consultative, consummately, contemplates, continentals, contrastable, convalescent, copperplates, cordialities, correlations, correlatives, cosmetically, counterblast, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, countervails, craftspeople, crenelations, crenulations, cupellations, cytoskeletal, decelerators, declamations, declarations, declinations, decollations, decolletages, deescalation, defalcations, delectations, despotically, disconsolate, discountable, domestically, domiciliates, egoistically, ejaculations, electrograms, elicitations, elucidations, emasculation, emasculators, enucleations, equinoctials, escapologist, esoterically, eucalyptoles, exclamations, exculpations, exorcistical, explications, felicitators, fictionalise, forecastable, galactosemia, galactosemic, galactosides, gesticulator, glycosylated, glycosylates, granulocytes, iconolatries, intercoastal, intercostals, intolerances, jocularities, latticeworks, lectionaries, logicalities, lycanthropes, maledictions, malefactions, misallocated, misallocates, miscataloged, myeloblastic, narcoleptics, neorealistic, nomenclators, nonrealistic, nucleotidase, oceanologist, octosyllable, oligochaetes, opalescently, orchestrally, osteoblastic, osteoclastic, osteological, osteomalacia, osteoplastic, oxalacetates, perchlorates, percolations, plainclothes, plecopterans, plutocracies, poeticalness, postcardlike, postulancies, problematics, proconsulate, prosecutable, pterodactyls, reclamations, recommittals, reescalation, reinoculates, reluctations, replications, sacerdotally, saddlecloths, sanctionable, sansculottes, schoolmaster, secobarbital, sectionalism, semitropical, smallclothes, speciational, spectatorial, speculations, sternocostal, theosophical, topicalities, translocated, translocates, tropicalizes, untouchables, valedictions, vesiculation, viscoelastic, watercoolers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 63 74 6F 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -.-. - --- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a c t o s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0063 0074 006F 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46676986818571 |
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