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cap stealing

cap stealing noun: synonym of cap snatching.

Noun

cap stealing (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of cap snatching.
    • Influenza viruses require host cell nuclear functions for at least two critical steps in their multiplication cycle: mRNA splicing and a unique process called cap stealing.1996 August 15, Friedemann Weber et al., “Nucleoprotein viral RNA and mRNA of Thogoto virus: a novel "cap-stealing" mechanism in tick-borne orthomyxoviruses?”, in Journal of Virology, volume 70...
    Synonyms:
    cap snatching

Synonyms of cap stealing

Questions about cap stealing

What does cap stealing mean?
Cap stealing means synonym of cap snatching.
What part of speech is cap stealing?
Cap stealing is a noun.

Words near cap stealing in the dictionary

  1. cap sheet
  2. cap sheets
  3. cap sleeve
  4. cap sleeves
  5. cap snatching
  6. cap stealing
  7. CAP syndrome
  8. cap table
  9. cap tables
  10. cap up
  11. cap'in

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