Valine

Definition: Valine

Valine

Noun

1. An essential amino acid found in proteins; important for growth in children and nitrogen balance in adults.

"Valine" is a common misspelling or typo for: alien, saline, vain, valance, valence, valiance, valise, value, vulpine.

Domain	Definitions
Health	A branched-chain essential amino acid that has stimulant activity. It promotes muscle growth and tissue repair. It is a precursor in the penicillin biosynthetic pathway. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Valine is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids on Earth, and is coded for in DNA. Nutritionally, valine is also an essential amino acid.

Crosswords: Valine

Specialty definitions using "valine": 2-Acetolactate Mutase ♦ Acetolactate Synthase ♦ Hemoglobin, Sickle ♦ RNA, Transfer, Val ♦ Urinary Plasminogen Activator ♦ Valine-tRNA Ligase. (references)

"Valine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Valine" is used about 8 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)	87.5%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "valine" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Valine	Last name	200	34,503
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "valine": Valine-tRNA, Valine-tRNA Ligase.
	Ending with "valine": l-valine.
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.

Language		Translations for "valine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		valin. (various references)

Dutch		valine. (various references)

Finnish		valiini. (various references)

French		valine, val (valley). (various references)

German		Valin, Val (VicArm Language). (various references)

Greek		βαλίνη. (various references)

Italian		valina. (various references)

Pig Latin		alinevay.(various references)

Portuguese		valina. (various references)

Spanish		valina. (various references)

Swedish		valin. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "valine": valines. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: alevin, alvine, veinal, venial, vineal.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-v"
	-1 letter: alien, aline, alive, anile, anvil, elain, levin, liane, liven, naevi, naive, navel, nival, venal, vinal.
	-2 letters: anil, elan, evil, ilea, lain, lane, lave, lean, leva, lien, line, live, nail, nave, nevi, vail, vain, vale, vane, veal, veil, vein, vela, vena, vial, vile, vina, vine.
	-3 letters: ail, ain, ale, ane, ani, ave, lav, lea, lei, lev, lie, lin, nae, nil, van, via, vie.
	-4 letters: ae, ai, al, an, el, en, in, la, li, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-v"
	+1 letter: alevins, anviled, flavine, javelin, leaving, naively, ravelin, valines, vealing, ventail.
	+2 letters: anvilled, aventail, bivalent, cleaving, divalent, enviable, enviably, flavines, gaveling, interval, inviable, javelina, javelins, leavings, natively, novalike, overlain, raveling, ravelins, sleaving, univalve, unviable, valencia, valerian, valeting, valiance, velamina, venality, venially, ventails.
	+3 letters: aliveness, antinovel, aventails, avirulent, bivalents, clavering, deleaving, devaluing, elevating, elevation, enslaving, evangelic, galvanise, galvanize, gavelkind, gavelling, genitival, graveling, intervale, intervals, invalided, inviolate, javelinas, javelined, juvenilia, laveering, leavening, levanting, leviathan, liveryman, marveling, navigable, nonviable, plaintive, ravelings, ravelling, revaluing, revealing, shaveling, slavering, sylvanite, traveling, trivalent, univalent, univalves, universal, unlivable, unrivaled, valencias, valencies, valentine, valerians, valiances, vandalise, vandalize, ventilate, vernalize, versional, vicennial, videoland, vigilance, vigilante, villenage, vulcanise, vulcanize.
	+4 letters: adenoviral, ambivalent, antinovels, cantilever, canvaslike, devotional, eigenvalue, elevations, eluviating, eluviation, equivalent, evaluating, evaluation, evangelism, evangelist, evangelize, evidential, galivanted, galvanised, galvanises, galvanized, galvanizer, galvanizes, gavelkinds, gravelling, heavenlier, inactively, inevitable, inevitably, insolvable, interleave, intervales, invalidate, invaluable, invariable, invasively, investable, invigilate, inviolable, irrelevant, javelining, lavishness, leavenings, leveraging, leviathans, levigating, levigation, levitating, levitation, lifesaving, lovemaking, marvelling, negatively, novaculite, overlading, overlaying, palavering, pavilioned, prevailing, ravellings, reavailing, revelation, shavelings, shinleaves, starveling, sylvanites, travelling, unenviable, univalents, universals, unraveling, unrivalled, valentines, valiancies, vandalised, vandalises, vandalized, vandalizes, velarizing, venalities, venialness, ventilated, ventilates, ventilator, vernalized, vernalizes, videolands, vigilances, vigilantes, villainess, villainies, villanella, villanelle, villenages, vindicable, vulcanised, vulcanises, vulcanized, vulcanizer, vulcanizes, waveringly.
	+5 letters: acriflavine, adventitial, alivenesses, alleviating, alleviation, alternative, ambivalence, antislavery, attentively, cantilevers, cavaliering, civilianize, conceivable, conceivably, countervail, covalencies, curvilinear, delineative, deliverance, deliveryman, devaluating, devaluation, devotionals, dovetailing, eigenvalues, eliminative, eluviations, enteroviral, equivalence, equivalency, equivalents, evaluations, evangelical, evangelisms, evangelists, evangelized, evangelizes, eventuality, everlasting, expansively, explanative, gallivanted, galvanizers, genitivally, heavenliest, inadvisable, inequivalve, inoculative, interleaved, interleaves, intervalley, intervallic, invalidated, invalidates, invariables, inventorial, invigilated, invigilates, inviolacies, inviolately, involucrate, irrelevance, irrelevancy, lavendering, levigations, levitations, lifesavings, livableness, lovemakings, multivalent, narratively, nonrelative, nonvolatile, normatively, novaculites, overcalling, overexplain, overhauling, overinflate, overlapping, overleaping, overloading, overplaying, oversalting, overtalking, overvaluing, plaintively, previsional, quaveringly, relevancies, revaluating, revaluation, revealingly, revelations, reverential, reversional, slavishness, starvelings, subinterval, surveillant, tentatively, translative, unadvisedly, unavailable, unavoidable, unequivocal, universally, unravelling, vainglories, valediction, valiantness, ventilating, ventilation, ventilators, ventilatory, ventricular, verbalizing, vernalizing, villanelles, vinblastine, voluntaries, vulcanisate, vulcanizate, vulcanizers, vulneraries.
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