peptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛptaɪd/
Forms: form: peptides
Etymology: From peptone, partially hydrolyzed protein, or German Peptid, from German Pepton, from Ancient Greek πεπτόν (peptón, “cooked, digested”) derived from πέπτω (péptō, “soften, ripen, boil, cook, bake, digest”).
Senses: examples: text: When it’s digested, its long amino-acid chains are first broken down into smaller fragments, or peptides. It turns out that many hormones and drugs are also peptides, and a number of casein peptides do affect the body in hormone-like ways.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 1, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The peptide bond itself.
examples: text: Please be patient with me, I get hundreds of emails a day in regards to anything fitness related including diet, recipes, eating schedules, work out routines, recommending what peptides to take for what and so on.
ref: 2024 June 3, Reddit, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
text: It truly doesn’t, funny how so many people in this sub keep buying certain peptides for the placebo.
ref: 2025 March 19, Reddit, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
glosses: performance-enhancing drugs, often a synthetic peptide compound
raw_tags: construed as plural
Synonyms: word: peptide
Hyponyms: word: dipeptide
word: tripeptide
word: tetrapeptide
word: pentapeptide
word: octapeptide
word: nonapeptide
word: decapeptide
word: lipopeptide
word: mucopeptide
word: neuropeptide
word: peptide chain
word: polypeptide
Derived terms: agnopeptide
allopeptide
aminopeptide
antipeptide
atrial natriuretic peptide
azapeptide
azopeptide
beta-peptide
biopeptide
bipeptide
bispeptide
boropeptide
chromopeptide
conopeptide
C-peptide
cyclopeptide
decapeptide
depsipeptide
dipeptide
dodecapeptide
duodecapeptide
eicosapeptide
eigenpeptide
endopeptide
enteropeptide
eupeptide
fibrinopeptide
gliopeptide
glycopeptide
heptadecapeptide
heptapeptide
hexadecapeptide
hexapeptide
holopeptide
homopeptide
icosapeptide
iminopeptide
immunopeptide
interpeptide
intrapeptide
isopeptide
lanthipeptide
lasso peptide
lipopeptide
mannopeptide
metallopeptide
micropeptide
monopeptide
mucopeptide
multipeptide
nanopeptide
neopeptide
neuropeptide
nonapeptide
nonglycopeptide
nonpeptide
octadecapeptide
octapeptide
oligopeptide
oncopeptide
pentapeptide
peptibody
peptidase
peptide bond
peptide chain
peptide nucleic acid
peptidergic
peptidic
peptidodendrimer
peptidolactone
peptidoliposome
peptidolysis
peptidolytic
peptidome
peptidomics
peptidomimetic
peptoid
phosphopeptide
photopeptide
polypeptide
prepeptide
prolylpeptide
pro-peptide
pseudopeptide
radiopeptide
sactipeptide
selenopeptide
septapeptide
subpeptide
telopeptide
tetracopeptide
tetradecapeptide
tetrapeptide
thiopeptide
tridecapeptide
tripeptide
undecapeptide
vasoactive intestinal peptide
vasopeptide
Related terms: word: protein