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Definition: Chimera |
ChimeraNoun1. (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon. 2. A grotesque product of the imagination. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Chimera" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Chimera \Chime"ra\, noun; plural Chimeras. [Latin chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Greek a she-goat, a chimera, from he-goat; compare to Icelandic qymbr a yearling ewe.]. (references) |
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Computing | Chimera A modular, X Window System-based World-Wide Web browser for Unix. Chimera uses the Athena widget set so Motif is not needed. Chimera supports forms, inline images, TERM, SOCKS, proxy servers, Gopher, FTP, HTTP and local file accesses. Chimera can be extended using external programs. New protocols can easily be added and alternate image formats can be used for inline images (e.g. PostScript). Version 1.60 is available for (ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera). Home (http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/) Chimera runs on Sun SPARC SunOS 4.1.x, IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.5, Linux 1.1.x. It should run on anything with X11R[3-6], imake and a C compiler. (1994-11-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Food & Agriculture | A variant resulting from intermingling of cells from stock and scion. A rare condition in grape vines. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | An individual that contains cell populations derived from different zygotes. (references) |
Medicine | Organism that contains a mixture of genetically different cells. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In zoology, a chimera is an animal which has (at least) two different populations of cells, which are genetically distinct and which originated in different zygotes (fertilised eggs).Chimerism may occur naturally during pregnancy, when two non-identical twins combine in the womb, at a very early stage of development, to form a single organism. Such an organism is called a tetragametic chimera as it is formed from four gametes - two eggs and two sperm. As the organism develops, the resulting chimera can come to possess organss that have different sets of chromosomes. For example, the chimera may have a liver composed of cells with one set of chromosones and have a kidney composed of cells with a second set of chromosomes. This has occurred in humans, though it is considered extremely rare, but since it can only be detected through DNA testing, which in itself is rare, it may be more common than currently believed. As of 2003, there were about 30 human cases in the literature, according to New Scientist.
In biological research, chimeras are artificially produced by mixing cells from two different organisms. This can result in the eventual development of an adult animal composed of cells from both donors, which may be of different species - for example, in 1984 a chimeric geep was produced by combining embryos from a goat and a sheep. A chicken with a quail's brain has been produced by grafting portions of a quail embryo into a chicken embryo.
In August 2003, researchers at the Shanghai Second Medical University in China reported that they had successfully fused human skin cells and rabbit eggs to create the first human chimeric embryos. The embryos were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory setting, then destroyed to harvest the resulting stem cells. Research using human embryonic material is troubling to many theologians and bioethicists.
Chimeras should not be confused with hybrids, which are organisms formed from two gametes (each from a different species) which formed a single zygote. All cells in a hybrid originate from this single zygote.
Chimeras should also not be confused with mosaics, which are organisms with genetically different cell types, but which again originate from a single zygote.
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The Chimera was finally defeated by Bellerophon with the help of Pegasus, the winged horse, at the command of King Iobates of Lycia. There are varying descriptions of its death–some say merely that Bellerophon ran it through on his spear, whereas others say that he fitted his spear point with lead that melted when exposed to the Chimera's fiery breath and consquently killed it.
The term "chimera" is often used metaphorically to describe things that have combined attributes from different sources. In genetics, for example, an organism or tissue created from two or more different genetic sources is called a chimera, as in transplant patients with organss from other donors. See Chimera (animal) (From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)See also
Chimera (plant)References
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Synonym: ChimeraSynonym: Chimaera (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. |
Unconformity | Phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary; kraken, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk; unicorn; Cyclops, "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders"; teratology. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chimera |
| English words defined with "Chimera": Bellerophon ♦ chimeral, Chimeras, chimeric, chimerical ♦ Typhon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Chimera": sectional chimaera, sectional chimera. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Chimera": Chimaera. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Chimera" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (chimera), Italian (chimera). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Chimera (1968) Contessina Chimera (1919) Chimera (2003) La Chimera di Arezzo (1991) Chimera (1991) | |
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| "Chimera" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.27% of the time. "Chimera" is used about 55 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) | 87.27% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.73% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Chimera" 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 |
| Chimera | Last name | 170 | 52,449 |
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Expressions using "Chimera": Radiation Chimera ♦ sectional chimera ♦ Transplantation Chimera. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "Chimera"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | monstër (behemoth, caliban). (various references) | |
Arabic | الكمير كائن خرافي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | химера (vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Chinese | 虚构物 (Chimeras). (various references) | |
Czech | přízrak (apparition, double, ghost, phantasm, phantom, spectre, spirit, vision, wraith). (various references) | |
Danish | podningsbastard (graft hybrid), kimaere (graft hybrid), kimære (chimaera). (various references) | |
Dutch | Chimaera (chimaera), chimera (chimaera). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĥimero. (various references) | |
Finnish | kimeera (chimaera, single individual created from two eggs fertilised at the same time), kimara (graft hybrid), kimaira (chimaera), harhama (chimaera). (various references) | |
French | chimère (chimaera). (various references) | |
German | schimäre, chimäre (chimaera). (various references) | |
Greek | χίμαιρα (mirage). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חזון תעתועים (false vision, fata morgana, mirage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rémlátomás (chimaera), agyrém (chimaera, fantasy, phantasm, phantom). (various references) | |
Italian | chimera (chimaera, graft hybrid). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | キー入力 (ATM card, automatic teller machine, birch sugar, cache, cash, cash card, cash machine, cashbook, cashbox, cashier, cashless, cashless checkless society, cashless society, casserole, cast, caster, Castilian, casting, casting vote, caterpillar, Cathay, chinoform, Cicero, flexi-teller, hickey, key, kibbutz, kick, kickback, kickboxing, kickoff, kid, kiddie, kiddy, kids business, kimchee, kinesics, kinesiology, kinetic art, kiosk, kip, kiss, kiss-and-ride system, kit, kitchen, kitchen cabinet, kitchen drinker, kitchen programmer, kitchenware, Kitchin cycle, Kitsch, kiwi, kiwi fruit, Korean pickled cabbage, kymograph, lipstick mark, love bite, newscaster, passion mark, quinine, xenon, Xenon arc lamp, Xenon lamp, xylitol). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | キメラ . (various references) | |
Manx | far-smooinaghtyn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imerachay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quimera (phantasm, unreality, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Romanian | vis (dream, fancy, reverie, vision), nãlucã (apparition, ghost, shape, spectre, spook), himerã (a bird in the bush, bubble, negation, nonentity, vapor, vapour, will-o'-the-wisp), fantomã (apparition, Bogle, fetch, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, spectre, spook, wraith, zombie), închipuire (fancy, idea, image, imagination, imagining, make believe, thought). (various references) | |
Russian | химера (rabbitfish). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prazno maštanje, himera. (various references) | |
Spanish | quimera (fancy, figment). (various references) | |
Swedish | chimär (chimaera, rabbitfish). (various references) | |
Turkish | canavar (beast, brute, monster, monstrosity, ogre), kuruntu (cobweb, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fears, hip, hypochondria, imagination, misgiving, phantasy, shyness, specter, spectre, the dismals, unfounded suspicion, vapor, vapour, vision), gerçekleşmesi imkânsız düşünce (utopia), ateş püskürten canavar. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | химера (bubble, crank, vapor, vapour, whimsy-whamsy, whim-wham), чудовиська, нездійсненна мрія, потвора (freak, gorgon, monster). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | điều ảo tưởng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Chimæra. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Chimera": chimeras. (additional references) | |
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"Chimera" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achamore, Cahamarca, Chamery, Chemdraw, Chempro, chiamata, Chiberta, chieda, chimaera, Chimeran, chimmera, chimra, Chinela, Chinery, Chipeta, Chiweta, chondria, chumer, chymera, cinera, khymer, kimera, shimera. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Chimera" (pronounced khi'me"ru) |
| 3 | -e" r u | caldera, era, guayabera, mascara, naira, para, Primavera, Riviera, Sierra, Terra, Vera. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-r" | |
-1 letter: achier, cahier, chimar, chimer, haemic, hermai. | |
-2 letters: aimer, amice, areic, ceria, chair, chare, charm, chime, chirm, cream, crime, erica, harem, hemic, herma, ihram, macer, mache, march, miche, micra, ramie, reach. | |
-3 letters: ache, acme, acre, ahem, amie, amir, arch, came, care, cham, char, chia, cire, cram, each, emic, emir, haem, hair, hame, hare, harm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-r" | |
+1 letter: camphire, chairmen, chedarim, chimaera, chimeras, marchesi, rhematic. | |
+2 letters: camphires, cherimoya, chimaeras, chimaeric, graphemic, machinery, marchlike, mischarge, rheumatic. | |
+3 letters: alphameric, amphimacer, amphoteric, arithmetic, becharming, bichromate, chairmaned, chairwomen, chambering, chamfering, charminger, cherimoyas, chimaerism, chimerical, chloramine, cochairmen, diathermic, dichromate, enharmonic, graphemics, hematocrit, hermatypic, hermetical, hypermanic, mechanizer, metaphoric, microphage, mischarged, mischarges, monarchies, nomarchies, pharmacies, reichsmark, rematching, revanchism, rheumatics, schmalzier. | |
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