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AGRIN

Definition: AGRIN

AGRIN

Adverb & adjective

1. In the act of grinning.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"AGRIN" is a common misspelling or typo for: again, ageing, aging, argon, gain, grin, margin.



Specialty Definitions: AGRIN

DomainDefinitions

Health

A protein component of the synaptic basal lamina. It has been shown to induce clustering of acetylcholine receptors on the surface of muscle fibers and other synaptic molecules in both synapse regeneration and development. (references)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: AGRIN

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Health

Agrin knockout mice died before birth or were stillborn because of defective NMJs. Interestingly, inactivating the agrin gene not only affected muscle, but also the perturbed axons. (references)

Studies with knockout mice have shown how a protein called agrin helps the developing muscle aggregate molecules called acetylcholine receptors at the synapse where they are needed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Derivations: AGRIN

Derivations

Words ending with "AGRIN": chagrin, pellagrin. (additional references)

Words containing "AGRIN": chagrined, chagrining, chagrinned, chagrinning, chagrins, pellagrins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: AGRIN

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: garni, grain.

Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-r"

-1 letter: agin, airn, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring.

-2 letters: ain, air, ani, gan, gar, gin, nag, rag, ran, ria, rig, rin.

-3 letters: ag, ai, an, ar, in, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-r"
 

+1 letter: airing, arcing, arming, baring, caring, daring, earing, faring, gainer, gradin, grains, grainy, gratin, haring, margin, oaring, onagri, origan, paring, racing, raging, raking, raping, raring, rasing, rating, raving, raxing, raying, razing, reagin, regain, regina, taring, waring.

 

+2 letters: adoring, aginner, airings, airting, aligner, anergia, anergic, angaria, angrier, angrily, arching, arcking, argling, arguing, arising, armings, arraign, barbing, barding, barfing, bargain, barging, barking, barring, bearing, blaring, bracing, braking, braving, braying, brazing, brigand, carding, carking, carling, carping, carting, carving, chagrin, charing, craning, craping, crating, craving, crazing, darings, darking, darling, darning, darting, deraign, draping, drawing, draying, earings, earning, earring, engrail, engrain, erasing, fairing, farcing, farding, farming, farting, fearing, flaring, framing, fraying, gainers, garbing, garnish, garring, gastrin, gearing, germina, glaring, gracing, gradine, grading, gradins, grained, grainer, granita, granite, grannie, graplin, gratine, grating, gratins, graving, graying, grazing, gripman, guarani, harking, harming, harping, hearing, ingraft, ingrain, ingrate, jarring, karting, lairing, larding, larking, mangier, margins, marking, marling, marring, marting, migrant, naggier, nargile, narking, nearing, niggard, orating, organic, origans, pairing, parging, parings, parking, parling, parring, parsing, parting, pignora, prating, praying, racings, racking, radding, rafting, ragging, raiding, railing, raining, raising, ramming, ramping, rangier, ranging, ranking, ranting, rapping, rasping, ratings, ratting, ravings, razzing, reading, reagins, realign, reaming, reaping, rearing, reaving, regains, reginae, reginal, reginas, ringtaw, roaming, roaring, sabring, sacring, sangria, scaring, searing, seringa, sharing, signora, snaring, soaring, sparing, staring, syringa, tangier, tarring, tarting, tearing, tracing, trading, varying, vinegar, wairing, warding, warking, warming, warning, warping, warring, wearing, yarding, yarning, zingara, zingare, zingari, zingaro.

 

+3 letters: abjuring, aborning, aborting, abrading, accruing, adhering, adjuring, admiring, adorning, aerating, aginners, agrarian, agreeing, agrimony, agrypnia, airthing, alarming, alerting, algerine, aligners, allergin, alluring, altering, amercing, anearing, anergias, anergies, angarias, angaries, angering, angriest, antidrug, aproning, arcading, archings, argentic, arginase, arginine, armoring, arousing, arraigns, arraying, arriving, arrowing, aspiring, assigner, assignor, assuring, astringe, attiring, auguring, averring, averting, awarding, bargains, bearding, bearings, beraking, berating, bewaring, bigaroon, blearing, boarding, borating, bracings, bradding, bragging, braiding, brailing, braining, braising, branding, branning, brassing, bravoing, brawling, breading, breaking, breaming, brigands, capering, carangid, cardigan, cardings, carlings, caroling, caroming, carpings, carrying, carvings, catering, chagrins, chairing, charging, charking, charming, charring, charting, clearing, craaling, crabbing, cracking, cradling, crafting, cramming, cramping, cranking, crapping, crashing, cravings, crawling, creaking, creaming, creasing, creating, croaking, curating, dairying, daringly, darkling, darlings, darnings, dartling, deairing, deraigns, derating, drabbing, drafting, dragging, dragline, drainage, draining, dramming, dratting, drawings, drawling, dreading, dreaming, dwarfing, earnings, earrings, earthing, emigrant, engrails, engrains, enraging, fairings, farmings, farthing, favoring, figurant, finagler, firefang, foraging, foraying, fragging, framings, franking, frapping, frayings, freaking, gainlier, gangliar, ganglier, ganister, gantries, garaging, garbling, gardenia, gargling, garoting, garrison, gastrins, gearings, geranial, geraniol, geranium, germanic, germinal, gesneria, glairing, gnarlier, gnarling, gnarring, gnattier, grabbing, gradient, gradines, grafting, grainers, grainier, graining, grandkid, grandsir, granitas, granites, granitic, grannies, granting, graphing, grapline, graplins, grasping, grassing, gratinee, gratings, graviton, grayling, grazings, greasing, grievant, groaning, guaranis, guardian, guarding, gyniatry, gyrating, gyration, handgrip, hangbird, hangfire, harpings, harrying, havering, hearings, hearsing, hearting, hiragana, hoarding, ignorami, ignorant, imaginer, inarming, infrugal, ingather, ingrafts, ingrains, ingrates, integral, interage, janglier, kartings, kraaling, laboring, lagering, larrigan, layering, learning, longhair, majoring, maligner, malinger, manuring, marbling, marching, margarin, marginal, margined, markings, marlings, marrying, maturing, midrange, migraine, migrants, mridanga, narghile, nargileh, nargiles, niggards, nightjar, orangier, orangish, organdie, organics, organise, organism, organist, organize, origanum, original, pagurian, pairings, papering, parading, parawing, parching, pargings, parkings, paroling, parrying, partings, partying, pearling, perigean, phrasing, pingrass, pirating, praising, prancing, pranging, pranking, prawning, rabbling, raddling, radioing, raffling, ragingly, railings, raisings, rallying, ralphing, rambling, ranching, rangiest, rankings, rankling, rassling, rattling, ravaging, raveling, ravening, ravingly, ravining, razeeing, razoring, reaching, reacting, readding, readings, readying, reaginic, realigns, rearming, reassign, rebating, recaning, redating, refacing, regained, regainer, regaling, regional, relacing, relating, relaxing, relaying, remaking, remating, renaming, repaving, repaying, resawing, resaying, retaking, retaping, retaxing, rewaking, rewaxing, rigadoon, rigatoni, rigaudon, ringbark, ringhals, ringtail, ringtaws, rivaling, roaching, roarings, roasting, rogation, rotating, rumbaing, sabering, sacrings, sangrias, savoring, scarfing, scarping, scarring, scarting, scraping, seringas, sharking, sharping, shearing, signaler, signoras, singular, slangier, smarting, smearing, snaggier, snarling, soarings, sparging, sparking, sparling, sparring, spearing, spraying, springal, squaring, starling, starring, starting, starving, stingray, strafing, strawing, straying, sugaring, swarding, swarming, swearing, synergia, syringas, tabering, taboring, tanglier, tapering, tarrying, thrawing, tracings, tracking, traiking, trailing, training, tramming, tramping, trancing, trapping, trashing, trawling, treading, treating, triaging, triangle, trigonal, troaking, twangier, unarming, uncaring, undaring, uprating, vaporing, vinegars, vinegary, vintager, virginal, wafering, wagering, warbling, warnings, warsling, watering, wavering, wearying, wharfing, wracking, wrapping, wrathing, wreaking, yearling, yearning.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AGRIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 47 52 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --.    .-.    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000111 01010010 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#71 &#82 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0047 0052 0049 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3541524348

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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