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noun
1.
A base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine.  Synonym: thymine.
2.
One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose).  Synonym: deoxythymidine monophosphate.
3.
A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.  Synonyms: metric ton, MT, tonne.
4.
The 20th letter of the Roman alphabet.
5.
Thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer.  Synonyms: liothyronine, triiodothyronine.
6.
Hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells.  Synonyms: tetraiodothyronine, thyroxin, thyroxine.



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"T" Quotes from Famous Books



... captain,—one who had "seen service,"—marshaled them into line, numbering but seventy, and bade "every man load his piece with powder and ball." "I will order the first man shot that runs away," said he, when some faltered. "Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they want to have a war, let it ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter
... drunkard, which explains how he, with all his high education and great ability, came to hold the humble post of tutor on a remote Boer farm. Years before, when under the influence of drink, he had committed some crime in France—I don't know what it was, and never inquired—and fled to the Cape to avoid prosecution. Here he obtained a professorship at one of the colleges, but after a while appeared in the lecture-room quite drunk and lost his employment. The same ...
— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard
... sir. Don't fancy that I make any exceptions. If I can in any way prove my folly to you, I ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... who keeps below. You didn't see Ansell. The ones who came to breakfast were Tilliard ...
— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster
... was ready, the oxen were put in and the master took his seat in front, but Jack crouched in the back of the cart like a little heap of misery, sobbing now and then from having wept so much. "Silence," said his master sternly, "don't let me hear another word from you!" This was the last ...
— Roumanian Fairy Tales • Various


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