Peptone

Definition: Peptone

Peptone

Noun

1. Any of various water-soluble compounds that form by hydrolysis in the digestion of proteins to amino acids.

Date "peptone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)

Etymology: Peptone \Pep"tone\, noun. [Greek expression cooked.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Peptone

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	Soluble substance obtained when proteins are hydrolysed or submitted to the action of certain enzymes. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Peptone

English words defined with "peptone": Albuminose ♦ Galactin ♦ Parapeptone, Peptogen, Peptogenous, Peptonize, Peptonoid, Peptonuria, Propeptone ♦ Tryptone. (references)

Specialty definitions using "peptone": basic media. (references)

Etymologies containing "peptone": Amphopeptone ♦ Dyspeptone ♦ Hemipeptone ♦ Metapeptone ♦ Parapeptone, Peptohydrochloric, Peptonuria, Propeptone. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Peptone" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (peptone), Vietnamese (peptone).

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Photo Album: Peptone

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Candida albicans showing germ tubes. Calcofluor white stain in peptone medium. Germ tube production is a diagnostic feature of C. albicans.Credit: CDC.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Peptone

"Peptone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peptone" is used about 6 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%	6	143,867

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Peptone

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
peptone	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Peptone

Language		Translations for "peptone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الببتون مادة تنشأ عن البروتينات. (various references)

Bulgarian		пептон. (various references)

Chinese		胨. (various references)

Danish		peptone. (various references)

Dutch		pepton. (various references)

French		peptone. (various references)

German		Pepton. (various references)

Greek		πεπτόνη. (various references)

Hungarian		pepton. (various references)

Italian		peptone. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ペプチド結合 (pelican, peptide bond, peril point, periscope, Peru). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ペプトン . (various references)

Pig Latin		eptonepay

Portuguese		peptona (per), gástrico (gastric flu). (various references)

Romanian		peptonã. (various references)

Russian		пептон. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pepton. (various references)

Spanish		peptona. (various references)

Swedish		pepton. (various references)

Turkish		pepton. (various references)

Vietnamese		Peptone. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Peptone

Derivations
	Words beginning with "peptone": peptones. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Peptone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: patone, paytone, pcprobe, peeptoe, Peponnet, Pepto, pepton, peton, Petone, Petrone, Popton, Putnoe, Puttonen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Peptone"

Words rhyming with "peptone" (pronounced 'Pep"tone'): Amphopeptone, Antipeptone, Ditone, Dyspeptone, Eupittone, Hemiditone, Hemipeptone, Heptone, ketone, Lactone, Metapeptone, Myristone, Parapeptone, Pentone, Propeptone, Semiditone, Tritone, Tryptone. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Peptone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-n-o-p-p-t"
	-1 letter: poteen.
	-2 letters: netop, topee.
	-3 letters: neep, nope, note, open, peen, peep, pent, peon, pepo, poet, pone, pope, teen, tone, tope.
	-4 letters: eon, nee, net, not, one, ope, opt, pee, pen, pep, pet, pop, pot, tee, ten, toe, ton, top.
	-5 letters: en, et, ne, no, oe, on, op, pe, to.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-n-o-p-p-t"
	+1 letter: peptones.
	+2 letters: appointee, notepaper, phenotype, pipestone, prepotent.
	+3 letters: appointees, notepapers, perception, phenotypes, pipestones, preemption, prepotency, propellent.
	+4 letters: perceptions, plecopteran, plenipotent, preemptions, prepotently, propellents, reappointed, teenybopper, townspeople, unstoppered.
	+5 letters: appendectomy, apperception, appositeness, intercropped, lepidopteran, neuropeptide, oppositeness, overstepping, perceptional, perpetration, perpetuation, phanerophyte, picturephone, plecopterans, postponement, preponderant, preponderate, preportioned, prepotencies, promptnesses, propensities, teenyboppers.
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