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antisense

noun
/ˌæntaɪˈsɛns/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntider. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English antisense From anti- + sense.

  1. derived from sense English sense English antisense From anti- + sense
  2. derived from *sennus Old French sensbor✻
  3. derived from *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor✻
  4. derived from *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor✻
  5. derived from anti- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der
  6. derived from *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntider✻

Definitions

  1. The strand of nucleic acid complementary to a strand which codes for an RNA or protein.

  2. Of a strand of nucleic acid, complementary to a strand coding for RNA or protein.

The neighborhood

  • antonymsenseantonym(s) of “genetics”

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antisense. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA