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Definition: Sterol |
SterolNoun1. Any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substances. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Any of a group of natural steroid alcohols such as cholesterol and ergasterol, that are waxy insoluble substances. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SterolSynonym: steroid alcohol (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sterol |
| English words defined with "sterol": cholesterin, cholesterol ♦ ergosterol. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sterol": Adosterol, AY-9944 ♦ Cholesterol Esterase, Clotrimazole. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sterol" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sterol" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sterol": Sterol O-Acyltransferase. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sterol": sterol-binding. | |
Containing "sterol": Phosphatidylcholine-Sterol O-Acyltransferase. | |
| 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 |
sterol | 27 |
plant sterol | 4 |
natural sterol complex | 4 |
japan sterol | 4 |
pharmaceutical sterol | 4 |
sterol sterolin | 3 |
alpha sterol | 3 |
max sterol | 2 |
sterol complex | 2 |
rutgers sterol | 2 |
universal natural sterol complex | 2 |
ester sterol | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sterol"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "醇. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | sterol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sterol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | stérol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Sterin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | στεροειδείς ενώσεις (sterol derivatives), στεροειδή παράγωγα (sterol derivatives). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | sterolo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 스테롤. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erolstay esterol. (various references) стерин. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sterol": sterols. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sterol": anticholesterol, cholesterol, ergosterol, phytosterol, sitosterol, stigmasterol, zoosterol. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sterol": cholesterols, ergosterols, hypercholesterolemia, hypercholesterolemias, hypercholesterolemic, phytosterols, posterolateral, sitosterols, stigmasterols, zoosterols. (additional references) | |
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"Sterol" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esterel, Estergom, Esteril, Estero, Estroil, Otterlo, Saemol, Sedol, Serolla, serul, stearoyl, stego, stelor, steor, steral, steri, steril, sterl, stero, sterro, sterup, stiro, strobl, Tsekov, uteral. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ostler. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: lores, loser, orles, roles, roset, rotes, rotls, sorel, stole, store, telos, toles, tores, torse. | |
-2 letters: eros, erst, lest, lets, lore, lose, lost, lots, oles, ores, orle, orts, rest, rets, roes, role, rose, rote, rotl, rots, sloe, slot, sole, sore, sort, tels, toes, tole, tore, tors. | |
-3 letters: els, ers, let, lot, oes, ole, ore. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bolster, bolters, colters, corslet, costrel, estriol, florets, holster, hostler, jolters, jostler, lectors, lobster, lofters, loiters, looters, merlots, molters, oldster, ostlers, petrols, replots, retools, revolts, settlor, soleret, sterols, toilers, tollers, toolers, trowels. | |
+2 letters: bloaters, blotters, bolsters, bottlers, brothels, chortles, cloister, clotures, clouters, coistrel, corselet, corslets, costlier, costrels, coulters, crosslet, delators, dottrels, drollest, droplets, electors, electros, elytrous, entresol, estriols, felworts, floaters, flouters, footlers, forestal, gloaters, holsters, hosteler, hostelry, hostlers, jostlers, legators, leotards, levators, loathers, lobsters, locaters, lodestar, molester, mottlers, moulters, oestriol, oldsters, oleaster, outliers, overlets, oversalt, petrosal, plotters, poitrels, polestar, pollster, portless, poulters, prostyle, protyles, ratholes, reallots, realtors, refloats, relators, resolute, restoral, retinols, roiliest, rootless, rootlets, rostella, rosulate, sectoral, selector, settlors, solerets, solleret, sortable, stolider, storable, strobile, strolled, stroller, telfords, temblors, throstle, toddlers, togglers, tootlers, trefoils, tremolos, triolets, trollers, trolleys, trollies, trommels, troubles, turnsole, urostyle, whortles. | |
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