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conquer (iou) and AA (medicine)


conquer (iou)



conquer verb. ME.
[Old French conquerre from Proto-Romance from Latin conquirere seek for, procure, gain, win, formed as CON- + quaerere seek.]
I. verb trans.
Acquire, get possession of; attain to. ME-M16.
Caxton Brenne had..conquerd a grete lordship thurgh maryage.
Acquire by force of arms, win in war; subjugate (a country etc.) by force. ME.
A. Alison At all hazards we must conquer a maritime peace. H. A. L. Fisher They had conquered Syria and Egypt.
Overcome (an opponent) by force; vanquish. ME.
R. W. Emerson The Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred..years.
transf. & fig. Overcome or subdue (habit, passion, etc.) by an effort of will; get the better of; master; gain by a struggle; win the affections or sexual favours of. LME.
C. Hill The idea of conquering poverty through conquering idleness. A. Lurie I conquered the impulse to hide in my room.
b. Climb successfully and reach the top of (a mountain). L19.
II. verb intrans.
Be the conqueror; make conquests; be victorious. ME.
Shakespeare Richard III Arm, fight, and conquer, for fair England's sake! W. H. Prescott Cortez..did not conquer from the mere ambition of conquest.
conquerable adjective able to be conquered L15.
conqueress noun (now rare) a female conqueror LME.
conqueringly adverb (rare) in a conquering manner, victoriously E17.
conquerless adjective (poet. rare) invincible L16.

AA (medicine)


AA -->
amino acid
<biochemistry> A class of organic molecules that containing an amino group and can combine in linear arrays to form proteins in living organisms.

There are twenty common amino acids: alanine, arginine, aspargine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline, serine, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine, and valine.

They are key components in all living things from which proteins are synthesised by formation of peptide bonds during ribosomal translation of messenger RNA.

All the amino acids have the L configuration, except glycine which is not optically active. Other amino acids occurring in proteins, such as hydroxyproline in collagen, are formed by post translational enzymatic modification of amino acid residues in polypeptide chains.

There are also several important amino acids, such as the neurotransmitter y aminobutyric acid, that have no relation to proteins.

Amino acids can now be produced by biotechnology in bulk using fermentation and biotransformation.

Acronym: AA