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Aurin vs Agrin - What's the difference?

aurin | agrin |

As nouns the difference between aurin and agrin

is that aurin is (organic chemistry) a red colouring matter derived from phenol used as an indicator while agrin is (neuroscience) a protein involved in the formation of neuromuscular junctions during embryonic development.

As an adjective agrin is

grinning; having happiness or satisfaction apparent on one's face.

aurin

English

Noun

(-)
  • (organic chemistry) A red colouring matter derived from phenol. Used as an indicator.
  • Synonyms

    * (in commerce) yellow corallin * (chemistry) rosolic acid

    References

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    agrin

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • grinning; having happiness or satisfaction apparent on one's face
  • * 1847 , , The Princess :
  • Yea, let her see me fall! and with that I drave
    Among the thickest and bore down a Prince,
    And Cyril, one. Yea, let me make my dream
    All that I would. But that large-moulded man,
    His visage all agrin as at a wake,
    Made at me through the press, and, staggering back
    With stroke on stroke the horse and horseman, came
    As comes a pillar of electric cloud,
    Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains,
    And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes
  • * 1849 , , Shirley , Chapter III:
  • When a ray from a lantern (the three pedestrians of the party carried each one) fell on Mr. Moore's face, you could see an unusual, because a lively, spark dancing in his eyes, and a new-found vivacity mantling on his dark physiognomy; and when the rector's visage was illuminated, his hard features were revealed all agrin and ashine with glee.

    Etymology 2

    From the name of the associated gene, AGRN , and (-in).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (neuroscience) a protein involved in the formation of neuromuscular junctions during embryonic development