DNA

See also: dna

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdiː ˌɛn ˈeɪ/, [ˌdiɛnˈeɪ]

  • Audio (UK)

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Noun

DNA (countable and uncountable, plural DNAs)

1. (informal) The part of a living being that carries genetic information.
2. (biochemistry) A biopolymer of deoxyribonucleic acid (a type of nucleic acid) that has four different chemical groups, called bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
3. (figuratively, business) The fundamental values or vision of an organization.
   • 2003, Kevin John Kennedy, Mary Moore, Going the Distance, FT Press (→ISBN), page 14:

     These ingredients in a company's DNA mean that company will attract and grow leaders with these qualities.

   • 2012, Bill McBean, The Facts of Business Life, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN)

     The main leadership priority at Level 2 is creating the business's DNA by defining how all the moving parts of the company will work, both independently and together.

Derived terms

• A-DNA
• B-DNA
• chloroplast DNA
• cpDNA
• DNA test
• dsDNA
• familial DNA
• gDNA
• H-DNA
• junk DNA
• mitochondrial DNA
• mtDNA
• nDNA
• rDNA
• ssDNA
• Z-DNA

 

Related terms

• GNA
• PNA
• RNA
• TNA
• XNA

 

Translations

abbreviation of deoxyribonucleic acid (see deoxyribonucleic acid for full forms)

• Afrikaans: DNS
• Arabic: دِنَا‎ f (dinā)
• Armenian: ԴՆԹ (hy) (DNTʿ)
• Azerbaijani: DNT
• Catalan: ADN (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: DNA (zh)

• Danish: dna (da)
• Dutch: DNA (nl), DNZ
• Finnish: DNA (fi)
• French: ADN (fr) m
• Galician: ADN m
• German: DNS (de) f, DNA (de) f
• Greek: DNA (el) n (DNA)
• Hindi: डीएनए (ḍīenae)
• Hungarian: DNS (hu)
• Icelandic: DNA n DKS (is) n
• Interlingua: ADN, DNA
• Italian: DNA (it) m
• Japanese: ＤＮＡ (dī-enu-ē), ディー・エヌ・エー (dī-enu-ē)

• Kazakh: ДНҚ (DNQ)
• Latvian: DNS
• Lithuanian: DNR
• Macedonian: ДНК (mk) f (DNK)
• Maori: pītau ira
• Persian: دی‌ان‌ای‎ (fa) (di-en-ey)
• Polish: DNA (pl)
• Portuguese: ADN (pt) m
• Romanian: ADN m
• Russian: ДНК (ru) f (DNK)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ДНК f

  Roman: DNK f

• Slovak: DNK f, DNA (sk) n
• Slovene: DNK (sl)
• Spanish: ADN (es) m
• Thai: ดีเอ็นเอ
• Turkish: DNA (tr)
• Urdu: ڈی این اے‎ (ḍī-en-e)
• Vietnamese: DNA (vi)

Proper noun

DNA

1. Defense Nuclear Agency

Phrase

DNA

1. Did not answer
2. Did not arrive (used when someone fails to keep an appointment)
3. Did not attend
4. Do not assume
5. Does not apply
6. Drugs 'n' alcohol
7. (US, military) Do not arm.

Verb

DNA (third-person singular simple present DNAs, present participle DNAing, simple past and past participle DNAed)

1. To examine a sample of (someone's) deoxyribonucleic acid.
   • 2004, Michael Sheridan, Death in December: The Story of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, page 194:

     The barrister went on to say that his client remains persecuted and victimised. He has been DNAed; his hair, his blood and his clothes."

   • 2008, Matthew Stokoe, Dennis Cooper, High Life, page 261:

     The only way we're gonna know is if we DNA him against the spunk in Karen.

2. (US, military) To put under a DNA order because of mental illness.
   • 2018, Jeanne Marie Laskas, To Obama, With love, joy, hate and despair, →ISBN, page 239:

     She had her weapons back. She wasn't DNA'd anymore.

Anagrams

• -and, ADN, AND, DAN, Dan, Dan., NAD, NDA, and, and-, dan, nad

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Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English DNA.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dì'ēn'ēi

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ ㄣ ㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): di¹ en¹ ei¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: dì'ēn'ēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ ㄣ ㄟ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dihenei
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dì'en'ei
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹ ˀən⁵⁵ ˀeɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: di¹ en¹ ei¹
    • Yale: dī ēn ēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: di¹ en¹ ei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: di¹ én¹ éi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiː⁵⁵ ɛːn⁵⁵ ei̯⁵⁵/

Noun

DNA

1. DNA

   驗DNA / 验DNA [Cantonese]  ―  jim⁶ di¹ en¹ ei¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to do a DNA test

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English DNA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deː.ɛnˈaː/

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Noun

DNA n (plural DNA's)

1. Initialism of desoxyribonucleïnezuur (“deoxyribonucleic acid”).

Anagrams

• dan

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English DNA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːˌænˌɑː/, [ˈde̞ːˌænˌɑː]

Noun

DNA

1. DNA

Declension

Declension of DNA (type maa) singular plural nominative DNA DNA:t genitive DNA:n DNA:iden DNA:itten partitive DNA:ta DNA:ita accusative DNA DNA:n DNA:t inessive DNA:ssa DNA:issa elative DNA:sta DNA:ista illative DNA:han DNA:ihin adessive DNA:lla DNA:illa ablative DNA:lta DNA:ilta allative DNA:lle DNA:ille essive DNA:na DNA:ina translative DNA:ksi DNA:iksi instructive – DNA:in abessive DNA:tta DNA:itta comitative – DNA:ineen

Anagrams

• Dan

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French

Proper noun

DNA

1. Initialism of Dernière Nouvelles d'Alsace (“Latest News from Alsace, a French periodical”).

Anagrams

• ADN

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English DNA.

Noun

DNA

1. DNA

Synonyms

• ADN

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Japanese

Etymology

From English DNA.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ディーエヌエ​ー [dìíénúéꜜè] (Nakadaka – [5])
• IPA^(key): [dʲiːe̞nɯ̟ᵝe̞ː]

Noun

D(ディー)N(エヌ)A(エー) • (dī-enu-ē) 

1. (genetics, biochemistry) Synonym of デオキシリボ核酸 (deokishiribo-kakusan, “deoxyribonucleic acid”); DNA

See also

• R(アール)N(エヌ)A(エー) (āru-enu-ē)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛ ɛn a/

• Audio

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Proper noun

DNA m or n (indeclinable)

1. (genetics, biochemistry) Abbreviation of kwas dezoksyrybonukleinowy.

Further reading

• DNA in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Turkish

Noun

DNA

1. Initialism of deoksiribonükleik asit. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)