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say it: tee
t is a noun meaning "a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine". It is pronounced /ˈti/ — tee. It carries 6 recorded senses.
a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms
the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet
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
hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells
“thyroxine is 65% iodine”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for t come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.