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| Domain | Definition |
Environment | In biotechnology, obtaining a group of genetically identical cells from a single cell; making identical copies of a gene. (references) |
Medicine | The production of a number of genetically identical individuals, in genetic engineering, a process for the efficient replication of a great number of identical DNA molecules. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Date "CLONING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Crosswords: CLONING |
| Specialty definitions using "CLONING": bacterial artificial chromosome ♦ COS Cells, Cosmids ♦ DNA probe, DNA, Complementary ♦ insertional, insertional inactivation ♦ ligase ♦ mini-prep, molecular probe ♦ nuclear transfer technique, nuclear transfer technology, nucleic acid probe ♦ Sequence Analysis, DNA, Sequence Analysis, RNA, synthetase ♦ yeast episomal vector. (references) |
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Lyrics | Cloning while they're multiplying (You Get What You Give; performing artist: New Radicals) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | This illustration, with and without text, titled "Pinpointing The Genes In Cancer: Three Key Techniques" explains about 1) chromosome staining, 2)inherited markers and 3) DNA cloning. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Jane Hurd (artist). |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I know human cloning sounds absurd but in its day so did the battery-operated vibrator. |
Robert Novak | Governor Thompson was also, I thought, clear on being against human cloning. The president did make a big pitch for the bill to abolish human cloning about a week ago, two weeks ago, but he hasn't said anything much since. |
Tommy Thompson | Well, the president has spoken very eloquently on it. And he's said that we are not going to support any kind of cloning whatsoever, either therapeutic or reproductive cloning. And the president has made that crystal clear, and I support the president. |
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| "CLONING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "CLONING" is used about 90 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 50% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.56% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CLONING": positional cloning. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CLONING": gene-cloning. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cloning | 2,700 | cloning disadvantage | 31 |
human cloning | 1,084 | pro cloning | 30 |
aim cloning | 418 | benefit cloning | 29 |
animal cloning | 100 | cloning cons | 28 |
cloning picture | 94 | against human cloning | 28 |
cloning ethics | 82 | essay about cloning | 28 |
plant cloning | 72 | genetic cloning | 28 |
cloning cons pro | 63 | cloning cons human pro | 27 |
hard drive cloning | 54 | cloning reproductive | 27 |
hair cloning | 52 | cloning debate | 26 |
cloning history | 48 | cloning of dna | 24 |
cloning dolly | 47 | cloning fact | 24 |
against cloning | 42 | gene cloning | 22 |
cell phone cloning | 39 | advantage cloning | 21 |
aol cloning instant messenger | 37 | stem cell cloning | 21 |
cloning article | 36 | organ cloning | 20 |
cloning information | 35 | aim cloning download | 19 |
cloning process | 32 | cloning definition | 19 |
ethics of human cloning | 31 | cd cloning | 19 |
disk cloning | 31 | anti cloning | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "CLONING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إستنساخ (reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 克隆技" (cloning technology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kloning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | clonering, klonering, het klonen, het clonen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kloonaus (clonage, clonal reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | clonage (clonage, clonal reproduction, clone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nachbildend (patterning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλωνοποίηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | clonazione, clonaggio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | クローン技" (cloning technology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | クローンぎじゅつ (cloning technology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oningclay clonagem. (various references) вегетативное размножение. (various references) clonación. (various references) kloning (clonage, clonal reproduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CLONING": clonings. (additional references) | |
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"CLONING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Claonaig, clening, clining, cloaning, cloing, cloining, Clonagh, cloneen, cloneing, Clonin, Cloninger, clonings, clonng, clonning, clooning, cloving, Conlig, croning, kloning, Lonning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CLONING" (pronounced klō"ning) |
| 5 | -l ō" n i ng | loaning. |
| 4 | -ō" n i ng | bemoaning, boning, condoning, droning, groaning, honing, intoning, moaning, owning, phoning, postponing, rezoning, stoning, toning, zoning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-l-n-n-o" | |
-1 letter: coning. | |
-2 letters: cling, coign, colin, conin, incog, lingo, logic, nicol. | |
-3 letters: cion, clog, clon, coil, coin, coni, conn, icon, ling, linn, lino, lion, loci, loin, long, noil. | |
-4 letters: cig, cog, col, con, gin, inn, ion, lin, log, nil, nog, oil. | |
-5 letters: go, in, li, lo, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-l-n-n-o" | |
+1 letter: clonings, clonking, clowning, noncling. | |
+2 letters: condignly, condoling, congenial, consoling, enclosing, flouncing, inclosing, longicorn, unclosing, uncloying, uncoiling, unlocking. | |
+3 letters: beclowning, bouncingly, canoodling, clangoring, clarioning, clingstone, cognominal, colonising, colonizing, comingling, concealing, concluding, conflating, congealing, congenital, conglobing, consulting, convolving, convulsing, counseling, echeloning, flouncings, ganglionic, longicorns, nonlogical, unblocking, uncloaking, unclogging, unclothing, unclouding, uncoupling. | |
+4 letters: allowancing, chronicling, clangouring, clingstones, cognitional, commingling, complaining, confidingly, conflicting, confusingly, congelation, congenially, consignable, consolingly, controlling, convoluting, counselings, counselling, downscaling, enscrolling, ensorceling, geosyncline, inoculating, inscrolling, nonallergic, nonclogging, nonsurgical, reconciling, uncongenial. | |
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