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Definitions: Recombine |
RecombineVerb1. Undergo genetic recombination; "The DNA can recombine". 2. Cause genetic recombination; "should scientists recombine DNA?". 3. To combine or put together again. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "recombine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interchange | Rearrange, recombine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Recombine |
| Specialty definitions using "recombine": DNA Restriction Enzymes ♦ emission nebula ♦ H II region ♦ sulfating roast. (references) |
| "Recombine" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Recombine" is used about 16 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 87.5% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "recombine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 再"合 (recombination, rejoin, Rejoined, Rejoining). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | reformer/se. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | neu kombinieren (to recombine). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | újra egyesít (rejoin, to recombine, to rejoin), újra egyesül (to recombine). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 組み替える (to rearrange, to recombine, to recompose, to reset). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くみかえる (to rearrange, to recombine, to recompose, to reset). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecombineray recombina. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "recombine": recombined, recombines. (additional references) | |
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"Recombine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ketomine, Rescobie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-i-m-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: combiner. | |
-2 letters: becrime, bicorne, bromine, combine, incomer, microbe. | |
-3 letters: become, bemire, berime, bicorn, bicron, bireme, bonier, boreen, bromic, bromin, coiner, comber, corbie, encore, enrobe, ermine, icemen, income, merino, micron, mincer, moreen, orcein, recoin, recomb. | |
-4 letters: berme, biome, boner, boric, borne, brine, brome, bronc, combe, comer, creme, crime, crone, ember, enorm, irone, micro, mince, miner, minor, moire, monie, nicer, niece, omber, ombre, orcin, rebec, recon, robin. | |
-5 letters: been, beer, bene, berm, bice, bier, bine, bone, bore, born, bree, bren, brie, brim, brin, brio, cere, cero, cine, cion, cire, coin, coir, comb, come, cone, coni, core, corm, corn, crib, ebon, emic, emir, erne, icon, inro, iron, meno, mere, mice, mien, mine, mire, more, morn, neem, nice, noir, nome, nori, norm, omen, omer, once, rein, rice, rime, robe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-i-m-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: recombined, recombines. | |
+2 letters: embryogenic. | |
+4 letters: embryogenetic. | |
+5 letters: comprehendible, comprehensible, comprehensibly, extraembryonic, incompressible. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 6F 6D 62 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. --- -- -... .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c o m b i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 006F 006D 0062 0069 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)527169817968758071 |
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