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Protein vs Agrin - What's the difference?

protein | agrin |

As nouns the difference between protein and agrin

is that protein is protein 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.

protein

Noun

  • (biochemistry) Any of numerous large, complex naturally-produced molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids, in which the amino acid groups are held together by peptide bonds.
  • (nutrition) One of three major classes of food or source of food energy (4 kcal/gram) abundant in animal-derived foods and some vegetables, such as legumes. see carbohydrate and fat for the other two major classes
  • For each dish, select a curry, protein , and spiciness.

    Synonyms

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    Meronyms

    * amino acid

    Coordinate terms

    * carbohydrate * fat

    Derived terms

    * green fluorescent protein * proteinic * proteinous

    References

    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