lipid
Syllables: lip·id/ˈlɪpɪd/
lipid noun: any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water.
Noun
lipid (plural lipids)
- Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water.
- Without lipids your body eats your fat and then your muscles, and the brain is pure fat and the heart is a muscle. You become a feedback loop, and then you fall over.2009, Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Virago Press (2020), page 384
lipid meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
lipid in Hindi
- organic compound
- वसा vasā
lipid in Tamil
- கொழுப்பு, லிப்பிட், இலிப்பிட்டு, கொழுபுவை, கொழுப்பினி, கொழுப்புப்பொருள்
lipid in Marathi
- लिपिड
lipid in Urdu
- لپڈ
More languagesFewer languages
- lipid in Bengali
- লিপিড
- lipid in Telugu
- లిపిడ్
- lipid in Malayalam
- ലിപിഡ്, ലിപ്പിഡ്
- lipid in Kannada
- ಲಿಪಿಡ್
- lipid in Punjabi
- ਲਿਪਿਡ, ਲਿਪਿੱਡ
- lipid in Gujarati
- લિપિડ
- lipid in Odia
- ଲିପିଡ୍, ଲିପିଡ
- lipid in Nepali
- लिपिड
- lipid in Arabic
- لِيبِيد lībīd, دُهْنِيَّة duhniyya
- lipid in Malay
- lipid
- lipid in Indonesian
- lipida
Examples of lipid in a sentence
- A mixture of isooctane and ethyl acetate can be used to elute triglycerides from a complex lipid solution.
- Unionization (lipid solubility) facilitates absorption whereas ionization (water solubility) facilitates excretion of drug.
- Products were extracted using C18 SPE and profiled using lipid mediator metabololipidomics.
Forms of lipid
| plural | lipids |
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Origin of lipid
Borrowed from French lipide, coined in 1923 by Gabriel Bertrand from Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos, “animal fat”) + French -ide.
Words formed from lipid
- aminolipid
- antilipid
- archaeolipid
- arsenolipid
- bilipid
- biolipid
- chlorolipid
- chlorosulfolipid
- chromolipid
- cyanolipid
- delipidate
- delipidize
- dyslipidemia
- epoxylipid
- exolipid
- fibrolipid
- galactolipid
- geolipid
- glucolipid
- glycerolipid
- glycerophospholipid
- glycolipid
- glycopeptidolipid
- glycosyllipid
- guggulipid
- heterolipid
- hydrolipid
- hyperlipidemia
- hypolipidemia
- intralipid
- lipidaceous
- lipidated
- lipidation
- lipidemia
- lipidic
- lipidized
- lipidogenic
- lipidogram
- lipidoid
- lipidology
- lipidolysis
- lipidome
- lipidomics
- lipidopathy
- lipidophilic
- lipidosis
- lipidostasis
- lipiduria
- lipoplatin
- lysolipid
- mycolipid
- nitrolipid
- nonlipid
- nucleolipid
- oncolipid
- phosphoglycerolipid
- phospholipid
- phytolipid
- proteolipid
- reinforced lipid
Words that rhyme with lipid
Questions about lipid
- What does lipid mean?
- Lipid means any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water.
- What is lipid in Hindi?
- Lipid in Hindi is वसा (vasā). See Lipid meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lipid?
- Lipid is a noun.
- How do you pronounce lipid?
- Lipid is pronounced /ˈlɪpɪd/.
- What is the plural of lipid?
- The plural of lipid is lipids.
Words near lipid in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lipid (page history and authors); lipid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lipid (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lipid (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lipid (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lipid (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lipid (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lipid (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lipid (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lipid (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lipid (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lipid (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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