Aurin vs Agrin - What's the difference?
aurin | agrin |
(organic chemistry) A red colouring matter derived from phenol. Used as an indicator.
grinning; having happiness or satisfaction apparent on one's face
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(neuroscience) a protein involved in the formation of neuromuscular junctions during embryonic development
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
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Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (in commerce) yellow corallin * (chemistry) rosolic acidReferences
*agrin
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Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(-)- 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
- 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.