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Definition: Agar |
AgarNoun1. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent. 2. A colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Agar" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Hagar", "a stranger", "one that fears". |
Date "agar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A gelatinous carbonhydrate material prepared from Gracilaria lichenoides and other species of sea-weed. Used in the preparation of culture media. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A complex sulfated polymer of galactose units, extracted from Gelidium cartilagineum, Gracilaria confervoides, and related red algae. It is used as a gel in the preparation of solid culture media for microorganisms, as a bulk laxative, in making emulsions, and as a supporting medium for immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis. (references) |
Information Technology | A polysaccharide complex, free of nitrogen and prepared from agar-agar which is produced by certain seaweeds(red algae). It dissolves in warm water to form a viscid solution. When cool, the solution forms a semisolid transparent jelly which is used as a growing medium for seeds and in vitro cultures. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Agar is a galactose polymer obtained from the cell walls of some species of red algae or seaweeds (Sphaerococcus Euchema and Gelidium species), chiefly from eastern Asia. Also known as Kanten, Agar-Agar, or Agal-Agal (Ceylon Agar).
Dissolved in hot water and cooled, agar becomes gelatinous; its chief use is as a culture medium for microbiological work (e.g. agar plates). Other uses include as a laxative, a vegetarian gelatin substitute - a thickener for soups, in jellies, ice cream and Japanese desserts such as anmitsu, and as a clarifying agent in brewing.
See also: agarose
Agar is also the name of a computer game engine; see Agar (engine).
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Agar is a high-level graphical C application framework aimed primarly at 2D/3D games and simulations. Agar applications are portable to a variety of operating systems thanks to the Simple DirectMedia Layer library. Among other things, Agar implements an object system (persistence, memory management, dependencies, etc), a complete widget set and tile-based levels.
One of the major goals of Agar is to allow non-programmers to create games using graphical edition tools.
Agar is open source, released under a BSD license, which allows the engine to be used by commercial games.
The engine is in development since early 2002. Trek to the Cave, a 2D role-playing game in the spirit of Square SNES games, uses the Agar engine.
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Agar, South Dakota
Geography
Agar is located at 44°50'19" North, 100°4'22" West (44.838678, -100.072869)1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²). 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.
Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 82 people, 41 households, and 22 families residing in the town. The population density is 186.2/km² (487.8/mi²). There are 54 housing units at an average density of 122.6/km² (321.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.78% White, 0.00% African American, 1.22% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 2.44% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 41 households out of which 19.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.9% are married couples living together, 7.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 46.3% are non-families. 39.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 19.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.00 and the average family size is 2.64.
In the town the population is spread out with 14.6% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 19.5% from 25 to 44, 32.9% from 45 to 64, and 24.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 49 years. For every 100 females there are 105.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 105.9 males.
The median income for a household in the town is $28,125, and the median income for a family is $38,750. Males have a median income of $31,250 versus $12,083 for females. The per capita income for the town is $21,812. 7.1% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 6.9% are 65 or older.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Agar."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| TSI agar | English | Triple Sugar Iron agar | Food & Agriculture |
| AGD | English | Agar Gel Diffusion | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: AgarSynonyms: agar-agar (n), nutrient agar (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: agar-agar (food & agriculture). |
Crosswords: Agar |
| English words defined with "agar": culture ♦ nutrient agar ♦ red algae. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "agar": Chromatography, Agarose, Colony-Stimulating Factors, Culture Media ♦ Electrophoresis, Agar Gel, Enterococcus faecium ♦ FOOD TESTER ♦ giant colonies ♦ Immunodiffusion ♦ JEWELRY COATER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Agar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (agar), Indonesian (in order that), Latin (conduct, deliver, drive, spend, thank, urge). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Agar Tum Na Hote (1983) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Red blood cells on an agar plate are used to diagnose infection. The plate on the left shows a positive staphyloccus infection. The plate on the right shows a positive streptococcus infection and with the halo effect shows specifically a beta-hemolytic group A. These infections can occur in patients on chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | A bacteria mix is spread on an agar plate. From that plate, a recombinant clone containing a gene of interest is lifted. Then large amounts of the bacteria are grown and the plasma is harvested. The DNA is then extracted and used for studying genes, including oncogenes. Also in the same setting is a male, oriental scientist holding an agar plate. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | The size of the “inhibition” zones surrounding the antibiotic-impregnated paper disks depends on the sensitivity of the bacteria present in the agar, to the antibiotic, and the antibiotic's ability to diffuse through the Müeller Hinton culture medium. Credit: CDC. |  | Antibiotic-impregnated paper disks are placed in Müeller Hinton agar along with a specific bacterium. The zone of inhibition is measured and compared to a standard in order to determine if an antibiotic is effective in treating the bacterial infection. Credit: CDC. |
 | Trypticase soy agar plate culture of Proteus mirabilis showing Dienes's reaction. Credit: CDC. |  | Photomicrograph of Bacillus anthracis from an agar culture demonstrating spores; Fuchsin-methylene blue spore stain. Anthrax. Credit: CDC. |
 | Sheep blood agar plate culture of non-hemolytic Bacillus anthracis colonies and hemolytic Bacillus cereus colonies. Credit: CDC. |  | Reactions in lysine iron agar stab cultures. Credit: CDC. |
 | Note the presence of rough colonies on the blood agar medium (right), and smooth colonies on the bicarbonate agar medium (left). Credit: CDC. |  | Cultured Bacillus anthracis positive encapsulation test. Rough colonies on blood agar (right), and smooth colonies on bicarbonate agar(left). Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For isolation from stool, use of a selective medium that has thiosulfate, citrate, bile salts, and sucrose (TCBS agar) is recommended. (references) | |
The panel concludes that at the present time, cellulose acetate followed by citrate agar electrophoresis is the method of choice for large-scale centralized mass screening. (references) | ||
Electrophoresis at alkaline pH on cellulose acetate followed by further examination of abnormal samples by acid electrophoresis on citrate agar is presently the most popular procedure used for mass screening. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Agar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.63% of the time. "Agar" is used about 32 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) | 65.63% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 34.38% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "agar" 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 |
| Agar | Last name | 1,000 | 18,367 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Agar, SD (town, FIPS 460) |
Expressions using "agar": blood agar ♦ nutrient agar. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "agar": Agar-agar, agar-coated, agar-like. | |
Ending with "agar": Agar-agar. | |
| 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 "agar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 琼脂 (Agar-agar). (various references) | |
Danish | agar-agar (agar-agar). (various references) | |
Dutch | agar-agar (agar-agar). (various references) | |
Esperanto | agaragaro (agar-agar). (various references) | |
Finnish | agar-agar (agar-agar), agar (agar-agar). (various references) | |
French | agar-agar (agar-agar), gélose (agar-agar). (various references) | |
German | Agarose (agar-agar, agarose), Agar-Agar (agar-agar), Agar. (various references) | |
Greek | άγαρ, αγάρ-αγάρ (agar-agar). (various references) | |
Italian | agarosio (agar-agar, agarose), agar-agar (agar-agar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 天草 (agar-agar), '天培地 (nutrient agar), '天 (agar-agar, freezing weather, vegetable gelatin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | か"て"ばいち (nutrient agar), か"て" (agar-agar, cold points, drought, dry weather, exhibition sponsored by the government, freezing weather, point of view, vegetable gelatin, viewpoint), て"ぐさ (agar-agar). (various references) | |
Korean | 우뭇가사리 (Agar-agar). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agaray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | agar-agar (agar-agar), gelose (agar-agar), ágar‐ágar, ágar. (various references) | |
Russian | агар. (various references) | |
Spanish | agar-agar (agar-agar), geloso (agar-agar). (various references) | |
Swedish | agar-agar (agar-agar), agar (agar-agar). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | агар-агар (agar-agar). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | aga thạch trắng (agar-agar), Aga (agar-agar). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 16, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Abram de hn ogdohkonta ex etwn hnika eteken agar ton ismahl tw abram |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Octoginta et sex annorum erat quando peperit ei Agar Ismahelem |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hundeahtatigwintre ond syxwintre wæs Abram, ða ða Agar him acende Ismahel. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Of eiyti and sixe wynter was Abram, whanne Agar bare to hym Ismael. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Abram was .lxxxvi. yere olde when Hagar bare him Ismael. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Abram was eighty six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 16, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang panuigon ni Abram kawaloan ug unom ka tuig sa pag-anak ni Agar kang Ismael. |
| Croatian | Abramu je bilo osamdeset i šest godina kad mu je Hagara rodila Jišmaela. |
| Danish | Abram var seks og firsindstyve År gammel, da Hagar fødte ham Ismael. |
| Dutch | En Abram was zes en tachtig jaren oud, toen Hagar Ismael aan Abram baarde. |
| Finnish | Ja Abram oli kahdeksankymmenen kuuden vuoden vanha, kun Haagar synnytti hänelle Ismaelin. |
| French | Abram était âgé de quatre-vingt-six ans lorsqu`Agar enfanta Ismaël Abram. |
| German | Und Abram war sechsundachtzig Jahre alt, da ihm Hagar den Ismael gebar. |
| Haitian Creole | Abram te gen katrevensizan lè Aga te fè Izmayèl. |
| Hungarian | Ábrám pedig nyolczvanhat esztendõs vala, a mikor Hágár Ismáelt szûlé Ábrámnak. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada waktu itu Abram berumur delapan puluh enam tahun. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka pada masa Hagar memperanakkan Ismail bagi Abram itu, adalah umur Abram delapan puluh enam tahun. |
| Italian | Abram aveva ottantasei anni quando Agar gli partorì Ismaele. |
| Maori | Na e waru tekau ma ono nga tau o Aperama i te whanautanga o Ihimaera tama a Hakara raua ko Aperama. |
| Norwegian | Abram var seks og åtti år gammel da Hagar fødte ham Ismael. |
| Portuguese | Ora, tinha Abrão oitenta e seis anos, quando Agar lhe deu Ismael. |
| Rumanian | Avram era de optzeci wi wase de ani, cknd i -a nqscut Agar pe Ismael. |
| Swedish | Och Abram var åttiosex år gammal, när Hagar födde Ismael åt Abram. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "agar": agaric, agarics, agarose, agaroses, agars. (additional references) | |
Words containing "agar": vagaries, vagarious, vagariously, vagary. (additional references) | |
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"Agar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aaaarg, Aaaargh, aag, Aagaard, aar, Aarg, Aarp, abaar, abar, abgal, Abgar, acar, Adgar, Aear, aega, agad, agae, agag, Agah, agal, agam, Agan, agao, agap, Agarbi, Agard, agas, Agat, agaw, agaz, Agca, agear, agef, ager, agert, agfas, agga, agi, agier, agira, agire, agma, agmar, agor, agr, agraha, Agram, Agran, agur, Aguri, aguru, Ahar, Aigai, akar, alar, Algarth, amar, anar, angra, apar, apgar, apgrp, arar, Argar, asar, asgar, Asgarby, Atar, Atgor, auga, Augar, avar, avare, awar, ayar, Ayglara, azar, Azgal, azgar, dgar, Egar, Gaar, Gadara, Gaiar, hagar, hagara, igar, jaegar, jagar, jaggar, jagir, lagar, Magar, magra, magrar, naogar, ogar, ogwr, Ozgur, ragar, saggar, vagar, wagar, Yalgaar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "agar" (pronounced ā"ger) |
| 3 | ā" g er | gager, Jager, Sager, swager, vaguer. |
| 2 | -g er | eager, Eger, Egger, enlarger, anger, Armiger, auger, augur, beggar, beleaguer, bigger, bootlegger, Bragger, bugger, Bulger, burger, burgher, carpetbagger, cataloger, cheeseburger, cougar, dagger, digger, finger, fishmonger, forefinger, gangbanger, hamburger, hugger, hunger, Jaeger, Jagger, jogger, lager, leaguer, linger, logger, longer, luger, Mauger, meager, monger, mugger, ogre, outrigger, overeager, rigor, sandbagger, Slugger, stagger, sugar, swagger, tiger, trigger, vigor, vinegar, vulgar, warmonger, younger. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: raga. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-r" | |
-1 letter: aga, gar, rag. | |
-2 letters: aa, ag, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-r" | |
+1 letter: aargh, agars, agora, agria, argal, gazar, graal, grama, grana, jagra, ragas. | |
+2 letters: aarrgh, agaric, aglare, agorae, agoras, agrafe, agrias, airbag, alegar, angary, angora, argala, argali, argals, garage, gazars, graals, graham, gramas, grappa, hangar, jagras, jaguar, laager, margay, organa, parang, ragbag, raglan, ragman, ragtag, ratbag, ravage, saggar, sangar, tagrag, vagary. | |
+3 letters: aarrghh, acreage, agarics, agarose, aggrade, agrafes, agraffe, agrapha, agravic, airbags, alegars, algebra, anagram, anergia, angaria, angoras, angular, argalas, argalis, arraign, arrange, arugola, arugula, augural, average, bargain, barrage, carnage, cartage, damager, diagram, drayage, farrago, gabbard, gabbart, garaged, garages, garbage, gardant, garland, gastral, gastrea, gharial, gradate, gradual, grahams, gramary, grammar, granary, grandad, grandam, grandma, grandpa, granita, granola, grappas, gravida, gravlax, graylag, guarani, haggard, hangars, jaggary, jaguars, laagers, laggard, manager, margays, megabar, organza, pangram, paragon, parangs, parerga, piragua, podagra, ragbags, raglans, ragtags, rampage, ratbags, ravaged, ravager, ravages, realgar, regalia, regatta, regmata, saggard, saggars, saguaro, sangars, sangria, savager, smaragd, tagrags, tanager, tangram, teargas, trangam, vagrant, warpage, washrag, yardage, zingara. | |
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