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Haem vs Rage - What's the difference?

haem | rage |

As a noun haem

is the component of haemoglobin responsible for binding oxygen, consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.

As a verb rage is

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haem

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Alternative forms

* heme (US )

Noun

  • The component of haemoglobin responsible for binding oxygen, consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.
  • *2010 , Pierre Cornelis and Simon Andrews (editors), Iron Uptake and Homeostasis in Microorganisms , page 17:
  • *:Haem' is ubiquitous, abundant and necessary for energy metabolism. Most bacteria have a '''haem''' biosynthesis pathway, but nevertheless, since '''haem''' is a major source of iron (an essential metal), microbes take up exogenous ' haem to retrieve iron.

    • See also

    * haemoglobin * bilirubin * red blood cell *

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    rage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Violent uncontrolled anger.
  • *
  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
  • A current fashion or fad.
  • :
  • (lb) Any vehement passion.
  • *(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • *:in great rage of pain
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
  • *(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
  • *:convulsed with a rage of grief

    • Synonyms

    * fury * ire

    Derived terms

    * pavement rage * road rage * roid rage * trolley rage

    Verb

    (rag)
  • (label) To act or speak in heightened anger.
  • (label) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged ; dire was the noise.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
  • * 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
    • Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
  • *
  • (label) To enrage.
    • (Shakespeare)

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