DNA

DNA

See also: dna and dną

English

Etymology

Initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdiː ˌɛn ˈeɪ/, [ˌdiɛnˈeɪ]

  • Audio (UK)

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Noun

DNA (countable and uncountable, plural DNAs)

1. (biochemistry) A biopolymer of deoxyribonucleic acid (a type of nucleic acid) that has four different chemical groups, called bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
2. (informal) The part of a living being that carries genetic information.
3. (figurative, business) The fundamental values or vision of an organization.
   • 2003, Kevin John Kennedy; Mary Moore, Going the Distance, FT Press, →ISBN, page 14:

     These ingredients in a company's DNA mean that company will attract and grow leaders with these qualities.

   • 2012, Bill McBean, The Facts of Business Life, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     The main leadership priority at Level 2 is creating the business's DNA by defining how all the moving parts of the company will work, both independently and together.

   • 2022 April 13, Ryan Bort, “The Real Reason Republicans Are Loading Their 2022 Campaign Ads With Guns”, in Rolling Stone‎:

     It’s coming from the hardcore MAGA set, and not only is it likely to stick around beyond the primaries, it’s likely hardwired into the DNA of a party now driven by extremism, conspiracy, and a belief that violence is a legitimate tool to achieve desired political outcomes.

Hyponyms

• A-DNA
• bDNA
• B-DNA
• C-DNA
• chloroplast DNA, cpDNA
• complementary DNA, cDNA
• dsDNA
• eccDNA
• ecDNA
• environmental DNA, eDNA
• familial DNA
• gDNA
• H-DNA
• hDNA
• junk DNA
• mDNA
• microDNA
• mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA
• nDNA
• non-coding DNA
• oDNA
• rDNA
• recombinant DNA, rDNA
• siDNA
• ssDNA
• tsDNA
• xDNA
• Z-DNA

 

Derived terms

• DNAemia
• DNA ladder
• DNA polymerase
• DNA profiling
• DNA sequence
• DNA sequencing
• DNA snippet
• DNA test
• DNA testing
• DNA virus

 

Related terms

• GNA
• PNA
• RNA
• TNA
• XNA

 

Translations

abbreviation of deoxyribonucleic acid (see deoxyribonucleic acid for full forms)

Afrikaans: DNS Arabic: دِنَا‎ f (dinā) Armenian: ԴՆԹ (hy) (DNTʿ) Azerbaijani: DNT Catalan: ADN (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: DNA (zh) Danish: dna (da) Dutch: DNA (nl), DNZ Finnish: DNA (fi) French: ADN (fr) m Galician: ADN (gl) m German: DNS (de) f, DNA (de) f Greek: DNA (el) n Hindi: डीएनए (ḍīenae) Hungarian: DNS (hu) Icelandic: DNA n DKS (is) n Interlingua: ADN, DNA Irish: ADN, DNA Italian: DNA (it) m Japanese: ＤＮＡ (dī-enu-ē), ディー・エヌ・エー (dī-enu-ē) Kazakh: ДНҚ (DNQ) Khmer: ឌីអិនអេ (dii ʼən ʼee) Latvian: DNS Lithuanian: DNR Macedonian: ДНК (mk) f (DNK) Maori: pītau ira Persian: دی‌ان‌ای‎ (fa) (di-en-ey) Polish: DNA (pl) Portuguese: ADN (pt) m Romanian: ADN m Russian: ДНК (ru) f (DNK) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ДНК f Roman: DNK f Slovak: DNK f, DNA (sk) n Slovene: DNK (sl) Spanish: ADN (es) m Thai: ดีเอ็นเอ Turkish: DNA (tr) Urdu: ڈی این اے‎ (ḍī-en-e) Vietnamese: DNA (vi)

Proper noun

DNA

1. Defense Nuclear Agency

Phrase

DNA

1. Did not answer
2. Did not arrive (used when someone fails to keep an appointment)
3. Did not attend
4. Do not assume
5. Does not apply
6. Drugs 'n' alcohol
7. (US, military) Do not arm.

Verb

DNA (third-person singular simple present DNAs, present participle DNAing, simple past and past participle DNAed)

1. To examine a sample of (someone's) deoxyribonucleic acid.
   • 2004, Michael Sheridan, Death in December: The Story of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, page 194:

     The barrister went on to say that his client remains persecuted and victimised. He has been DNAed; his hair, his blood and his clothes."

   • 2008, Matthew Stokoe, Dennis Cooper, High Life, page 261:

     The only way we're gonna know is if we DNA him against the spunk in Karen.

2. (US, military) To put under a DNA order because of mental illness.
   • 2018, Jeanne Marie Laskas, To Obama, With love, joy, hate and despair, →ISBN, page 239:

     She had her weapons back. She wasn't DNA'd anymore.

Further reading

• DNA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -and, -dan, ADN, AND, DAN, Dan, Dan., NAD, NDA, and, and-, dan, nad

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Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English DNA.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dì'ēn'ēi, dì'ēn nēi

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ ㄣ ㄟ, ㄉㄧˋ ㄣ ㄋㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): di¹ en¹ ei¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dì'ēn'ēi, dì'ēn nēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ ㄣ ㄟ, ㄉㄧˋ ㄣ ㄋㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dì-en-ei, dì-en nei
    • Wade–Giles: ti⁴-ên¹-ei¹- ti⁴-ên¹ nei¹
    • Yale: dì-ēn-ēi-, dì-ēn nēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dihenei, dihen nhei
    • Palladius: диэньэй, диэнь нэй (dienʹej, dienʹ nɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹ ˀən⁵⁵ ˀeɪ̯⁵⁵ ti⁵¹ ˀən⁵⁵ neɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: di¹ en¹ ei¹
    • Yale: colloquial sounds not defined
    • Cantonese Pinyin: di¹ en¹ ei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: colloquial sounds not defined
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiː⁵⁵ ɛːn⁵⁵ ei̯⁵⁵/

Noun

DNA

1. DNA

   驗DNA／验DNA [Cantonese]  ―  jim⁶ di¹ en¹ ei¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to do a DNA test

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English DNA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deː.ɛnˈaː/

• Audio

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Noun

DNA n (plural DNA's)

1. Initialism of desoxyribonucleïnezuur (“deoxyribonucleic acid”).

Proper noun

DNA f

1. (Suriname) Initialism of De Nationale Assemblee.

Anagrams

• dan

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English DNA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːˌænˌɑː/, [ˈde̞ːˌænˌɑː]

Noun

DNA

1. DNA

Declension

Declension of DNA (type maa) singular plural nominative DNA DNA:t genitive DNA:n DNA:iden DNA:itten partitive DNA:ta DNA:ita accusative DNA DNA:n DNA:t inessive DNA:ssa DNA:issa elative DNA:sta DNA:ista illative DNA:han DNA:ihin adessive DNA:lla DNA:illa ablative DNA:lta DNA:ilta allative DNA:lle DNA:ille essive DNA:na DNA:ina translative DNA:ksi DNA:iksi instructive – DNA:in abessive DNA:tta DNA:itta comitative – DNA:ineen

Anagrams

• Dan

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French

Proper noun

DNA f pl (plural only)

1. Initialism of Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (“Latest News from Alsace, a French periodical”).

Anagrams

• ADN

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from English DNA, from deoxyribonucleic acid. Replacing DNS from the calque Desoxyribonukleinsäure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [deːʔɛnˈʔaː]

Noun

DNA f (genitive DNA, no plural)

1. (molecular biology) DNA, Synonym of Desoxyribonukleinsäure

Derived terms

• DNA-Doppelstrang
• DNA-Molekül

Further reading

• “DNA” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English DNA.

Noun

DNA

1. DNA

   Synonym: ADN

Anagrams

• ADN

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Japanese

Etymology

From English DNA.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ディーエヌエ​ー [dìíénúéꜜè] (Nakadaka – [5])
• IPA^(key): [dʲiːe̞nɯ̟ᵝe̞ː]

Noun

D(ディー)N(エヌ)A(エー) • (dī-enu-ē) 

1. (genetics, biochemistry) Synonym of デオキシリボ核酸 (deokishiribo-kakusan, “deoxyribonucleic acid”); DNA

See also

• R(アール)N(エヌ)A(エー) (āru-enu-ē)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

DNA n (definite singular DNA-et, indefinite plural DNA, definite plural DNA-a or DNA-ene)

1. DNA

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

DNA n (definite singular DNA-et, indefinite plural DNA, definite plural DNA-a)

1. DNA

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Polish

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English DNA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛ.ɛnˈa/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Syllabification: D‧N‧A

Proper noun

DNA m or n (indeclinable)

1. (genetics, biochemistry) Abbreviation of kwas dezoksyrybonukleinowy.

Further reading

• DNA in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• DNA in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English DNA.

Noun

DNA m (plural DNAs)

1. Alternative form of ADN

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Spanish

Noun

DNA m (plural DNA)

1. (biochemistry) DNA

   Synonym: ADN

Further reading

• “DNA”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English DNA.

Proper noun

DNA

1. DNA

   Synonym: ADN

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Turkish

Noun

DNA

1. Initialism of deoksiribonükleik asit. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)