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Definitions: Taurine |
TaurineAdjective1. Of or relating to or resembling a bull. Noun1. A colorless crystalline substance obtained from the bile of mammals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | 2-Aminoethanesulfonic acid. A conditionally essential nutrient, important during mammalian development. It is present in milk but is isolated mostly from ox bile and strongly conjugates bile acids. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There is a widespread misconception that taurine is an amino acid. Although it contains an amino group, it lacks the requisite carboxyl group.
In human metabolism it has two major roles. It is a neuroinhibitory transmitter and is part of the emulsifying bile acid chenodeoxychloic acid. It has been linked to a number of other metabolic functions but its use is not clear.
It has been tested medically in the treatment of congestive heart failure, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, epilepsy and several other conditions.
Taurine is one of the ingredients commonly found in 'energy drinks' (which often feature caffeine and/or other stimulant ingredients) such as the drink Red Bull.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Taurine."
Crosswords: Taurine |
| English words defined with "taurine": Taurocholic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "taurine": Bile Acids and Salts ♦ Chenodeoxycholic Acid, Cholic Acids ♦ Deoxycholic Acid ♦ Lithocholic Acid ♦ Taurochenodeoxycholic Acid, Taurocholic Acid, Taurodeoxycholic Acid, Taurolithocholic Acid. (references) |
| "Taurine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Taurine" is used about 5 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) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "taurine": zebu-taurine. | |
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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 |
taurine | 641 |
l taurine | 50 |
taurine red bull | 7 |
it taurine | 6 |
effects taurine | 4 |
benefit taurine | 4 |
taurine side effects | 3 |
definition of taurine | 3 |
amino acid taurine | 3 |
deficiency taurine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "taurine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | подобен на бик. (various references) | |
Chinese | 牛磺酸. (various references) | |
Danish | taurin. (various references) | |
Dutch | taurine. (various references) | |
Finnish | tauriini. (various references) | |
French | taurine. (various references) | |
German | Taurin. (various references) | |
Greek | ταυρίνη. (various references) | |
Italian | taurina. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aurinetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | taurina. (various references) | |
Spanish | taurina. (various references) | |
Swedish | taurin. (various references) | |
Turkish | boğa burcuna ait, boğa (bull). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "taurine": taurines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ruinate, uranite, urinate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: auntie, nature, nutria, ratine, retain, retina, triune, uniter. | |
-2 letters: antre, aurei, entia, inert, inter, inure, irate, niter, nitre, retia, riant, rutin, tenia, terai, tinea, train, trine, tuner, unite, untie, uraei, urate, urine, uteri. | |
-3 letters: airn, airt, ante, anti, aunt, earn, etna, etui, near, neat, nite, rain, rani, rant, rate, rein, rent, rite, ruin, rune, runt, tain, tare, tarn, tear, tern, tier, tine, tire, true, tuna, tune, turn, unai, unit, urea. | |
-4 letters: ain, air, ait, ane, ani, ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, era, ern, eta, ire, nae, net, nit, nut, ran, rat, rei, ret, ria, rin, rue, run, rut, tae, tan, tar, tau, tea, ten, tie, tin, tui, tun, urn, uta. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, an, ar, at, en, er, et, in, it, na, ne, nu, re, ta, ti, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: antiquer, anuretic, auntlier, braunite, indurate, jauntier, quainter, retinula, ruinated, ruinates, ruminate, taurines, tenurial, uranites, urbanite, urinated, urinates. | |
+2 letters: antiquers, antiserum, antiulcer, avirulent, braunites, curtained, estuarine, eutherian, featuring, flauntier, garniture, gauntries, granulite, incurvate, indurated, indurates, infuriate, juniorate, miniature, naughtier, quantizer, retinulae, retinular, retinulas, ruminated, ruminates, runcinate, saturnine, signature, sustainer, tellurian, tribunate, truancies, turbinate, ultrafine, uncertain, unfairest, unreality, untrained, unwariest, uptearing, uraninite, urbanites. | |
+3 letters: adulterine, aeronautic, antihunter, antinature, antiserums, aquatinter, auctioneer, aventurine, centauries, denaturing, depurating, enunciator, equestrian, eructating, eructation, euphoriant, eutherians, exurbanite, fluorinate, garnitures, granulites, guarantied, guaranties, housetrain, inaccurate, inaugurate, incurvated, incurvates, indurative, infuriated, infuriates, innumerate, interlunar, intermural, interurban, juniorates, keratinous, lacustrine, laureating, laureation, lenticular, miniatures, multirange, naturalise, naturalize, neutralise, neutralism, neutralist, neutrality, neutralize, numerating, numeration, nunciature, outearning, outhearing, outreading, outwearing, parqueting, parturient, precaution, prenuptial, prudential, quantifier, quantizers, quarantine, quartering, quaternion, quaternity, raunchiest, reacquaint, refutation, regulating, regulation, renaturing, renunciate, reputation, resaluting, resupinate, retinacula, rudimental, ruminative, sauntering, signatures, supergiant, sustainers, suzerainty, tambourine, tenurially, tourmaline, tranquiler, treasuring, tribunates, truantries, turbinated, turbinates, ulcerating, ulceration, uncreating, uncreative, unearthing, unfavorite, unilateral, univariate, unliterary, unreadiest, unsteadier, unstrained, untreading, uraninites, urbanities, urogenital. | |
+4 letters: accoutering, acquirement, adventuring, adventurism, adventurist, aeronautics, antheridium, anticruelty, antinatures, antineutron, antinuclear, antiquaries, antiseizure, antitruster, aponeurotic, aquatinters, argumentive, auctioneers, aventurines, barquentine, candidature, carbureting, carburetion, cauterizing, centrifugal, cofeaturing, counterraid, countervail, crenulation, curtailment, curtainless, deuterating, deuteration, disturbance, drumbeating, elutriating, elutriation, enrapturing, enumerating, enumeration, enumerative, enunciators, equestrians, equilibrant, eructations, euchromatin, euphoriants, expurgating, expurgation, exuberating, exurbanites, faultfinder, fluorinated, fluorinates, heteroauxin, hindquarter, housetrains, importunate, inaugurated, inaugurates, incurvature, ingratitude, ingurgitate, innumerates, inscrutable, interannual, intercampus, interlunary, intersexual, interurbans, intravenous, involucrate, laureations, mensuration, mercurating, mercuration, miniaturize, mountaineer, natriureses, natriuresis, natriuretic, naturalised, naturalises, naturalized, naturalizes, neuroactive, neuropathic, neurulation, neutralised, neutralises, neutralisms, neutralists, neutralized, neutralizer, neutralizes, numerations, nunciatures, outcapering, outdreaming, outlearning, outorganize, outreaching, outswearing, outwearying, overcaution, parturients, permutation, planetarium, precautions, proteinuria, quantifiers, quarantined, quarantines, quarterings, quaternions, questionary, radiolucent, reacquaints, readjusting, recapturing, reductional, reeducating, reeducation, refutations, regulations, reinoculate, reluctating, reluctation, renunciates, repudiating, repudiation, reputations, retinaculum, revaluating, revaluation, rubefacient, rudimentary, sanctuaries, seminatural, septenarius, squattering, stranguries, subinterval, subordinate, subterminal, suburbanite, supergiants, supernation, surveillant, tambourines, tourmalines, tranquilest, tranquilize, tranquiller, transfigure, triangulate, ulcerations, ultramarine, unamortized, unaspirated, unassertive, uncertainly, uncertainty, unclarities, uncurtained, underacting, underactive, undereating, underrating, undertaking, undertaxing, unfaltering, unhealthier, uniparental, unirrigated, unliberated, unprintable, unrealistic, unrealities, unresistant, unrestraint, untarnished, unthreading, unwreathing, upgathering, ventricular, voluntaries. | |
+5 letters: acquirements, adulterating, adulteration, adventurisms, adventurists, aeronautical, amentiferous, angularities, anticonsumer, antineutrino, antineutrons, antipleasure, antitrusters, bankruptcies, barquentines, candidatures, carburetions, carburetting, caterwauling, centrifugals, circumjacent, circumstance, clairaudient, counterclaim, counterimage, counterraids, counterstain, countervails, crenulations, curtailments, denaturalize, denaturation, denunciatory, deregulating, deregulation, deuteranopia, deuteranopic, deuterations, disturbances, drumbeatings, edulcorating, elocutionary, elucubrating, elucubration, elutriations, encrustation, enumerations, equalitarian, equilibrants, euchromatins, evolutionary, excruciating, excruciation, expurgations, extrauterine, faultfinders, guaranteeing, hantaviruses, heartburning, heteroauxins, hindquarters, housepainter, housetrained, inaccurately, inarticulate, incurvatures, ingratitudes, ingurgitated, ingurgitates, inoperculate, instrumental, insularities, interfaculty, interfluvial, interlobular, internuclear, internuncial, interpluvial, intertextual, intrapreneur, intrauterine, menstruating, menstruation, mensurations, mercurations, miniaturized, miniaturizes, misadventure, mountaineers, multinuclear, natriuretics, neurasthenia, neurasthenic, neuropathies, neurotically, neurulations, neutralising, neutralistic, neutralities, neutralizers, neutralizing, outbargained, outorganized, outorganizes, outpreaching, outspreading, overcautions, paintbrushes, pasteurising, pasteurizing, permutations, perpetuating, perpetuation, pertinacious, perturbation, planetariums, precautioned, proteinurias, prudentially, putrefaction, quadrivalent, quarterfinal, quaternaries, quaternities, reacquainted, reassumption, recuperating, recuperation, reeducations, reevaluating, reevaluation, refoundation, reinoculated, reinoculates, rejuvenating, rejuvenation, reluctancies, reluctations, remunerating, remuneration, remunerative, renaturation, renunciation, renunciative, renunciatory, reoccupation, repopulating, repopulation, repudiations, reputational, reregulating, reregulation, reticulating, reticulation, revaluations, revictualing, rubefacients, ruminatively, salutariness, slaughtering, sternutation, suberization, subintervals, subminiature, subordinated, subordinates, suburbanites, supercabinet, superheating, supernations, superstation, surveillants, suzerainties, titaniferous, tranquilized, tranquilizer, tranquilizes, tranquillest, tranquillize, tranquilness, transfigured, transfigures, transfusible, triangulated, triangulates, tubocurarine, turbellarian, ultraheating, ultramarines, ultrarefined, ultraviolent, unaccredited, unadvertised, unattractive, unattributed, unauthorized, uncalibrated, uncharitable, uncirculated, undemocratic, undercoating, understating, undertakings, undistracted, undramatized, unflattering, ungerminated, unhysterical, unilaterally, unimportance, unintegrated, unirradiated, universalist, universality, unmoralities, unprofitable, unrestrained, unrestraints, unrhetorical, unstratified, urinogenital, valetudinary, vituperating, vituperation. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- ..- .-. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a u r i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0075 0072 0069 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54678784758071 |
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