Do we say protean or protein

protean 35 occurrences

Wherever a "tazia" or tomb is a-building, there gather all the Mohurrum performers, the Nal Sahebs or Lord Horse-shoes, the tigers and the mummers of Protean disguise.

Nothing in all the world would please this protean-natured man quite so well.

THE HYGIENE OF THE INTERNAL SECRETIONS All these protean expressions of endocrine determination may now begin to be looked upon with the hopeful and optimistic attitude of him who understands cause and effect and can control.

" Of all Shakespeare's qualities, his humor is the hardest to describe because of its protean forms.

omniform^, omnigenous^, omnifarious^; protean (form) 240.

Adj. changeable, changeful; changing &c 140; mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing; protean, proteiform^; versatile.

[taking several forms] pleomorphic; protean; changeable, &c 149.

Most of us, by the Protean quality of man, can talk to some degree with all; but the true talk, that strikes out all the slumbering best of us, comes only with the peculiar brethren of our spirits, is founded as deep as love in the constitution of our being, and is a thing to relish with all our energy, while, yet we have it, and to be grateful for forever.

Cordelia ... Protean.

Protean, something that constantly assumes different forms.

Something of the same kind, and with something of the same effect, is Lord Byron's wonderful fertility of thought and facility of expression; and the Protean style of "Don Juan," instead of checking (as the fetters of rhythm generally do) his natural activity, not only gives him wider limits to range in, but even generates a more roving disposition.

The democratic upheaval which began five hundred years ago is assuming Protean forces; and amongst them is the malady aptly styled "constitutionalitis" by Dr. Dillon.

And whence comes Life,that occult Force, So rich in its prolific range, So frail and swift to run its course, Yet deathless in protean change?

Always before, there had been misty exhalations from it, that oozed up into the sunshine of his fancy, and that took all the shapes of glisten or of gloom which his Protean genius gave them.

They are not (as you are aware) a people who draw much instruction from the school of experience, particularly in the department of medicine, and, when by the side of this fact you place the protean forms which the diseases of epidemic seasons assume, the inference must follow that multitudes of them perish where the civilized man would escape (of which I could furnish examples).

The one the fancy of Ovid metamorphosed from a restless man to a fickle sea-god; the other assumed so many deceptive shapes to those who visited his cave, that his memory has been preserved in the word Protean.

Which would indicate that Stella Kamps, in her protean endeavours, had overplayed the parts just a trifle.

Protean Artist wanted.

Manager Winston announces the engagement of Anna Laurie, the Protean change artiste, with songs, "Don't Get Weary," "Bobbin' Around," "I Yoost Landet.

Mr. Belloc, with a harder grip upon the realities of life, would have the widest distribution of proprietorship, with an alert democratic government continually legislating against the protean reappearances of usury and accumulation and attacking, breaking up, and redistributing any large unanticipated bodies of wealth that appeared.

In short, the difference was that of intensity or energy in one or other of its protean forms; it did not extend more deeply into the structure of the characters.

The sweating Muse does almost leave the chase; She puffs, and hardly keeps your Protean vices pace.

Besides having the advantage of quiet nerves, she had become inured to the presence of Death in all his protean formsit was impossible that her father should be threatened in a way with which she was not already familiar.

Any definition sufficiently elastic to include the protean forms assumed by what we call the 'pastoral ideal' could hardly have sufficient intension to be of any real value.

She is protean; she is at once an invariable formula and an individual caprice; she is a law governing the universal multitude, and a passion swaying the unit.

protein 41 occurrences

Foods containing much starch, as potatoes and rice, may ordinarily be taken in greater quantities than foods containing much protein, such as meats and nuts.

Too much protein, found in meat, lays a burden upon the liver and kidneys and when the burden is too great, wastes, which cannot be taken care of, gather and poison the blood, giving rise to that feeling of being "tired all over" which is so inimical to mental and physical exertion.

protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein; albumen; structure &c 329; organization, organism.

This was no little tragedy: the two sticks of condensed and concentrated protein might have kept Ben alive for a few days more.

ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. SEE ADVANCES IN CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY. VITAMINS AND HORMONES: ADVANCES IN RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS.

ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY.

SEE Advances in protein chemistry.

SEE Advances in protein chemistry.

Advances in protein chemistry.

Academic Press, Inc. (PCW); 24Sep75; R614552. R614553. Advances in protein chemistry.

Methinks he doth protein too much.

Protein and amino acid requirements of mammals.

Protein metabolism in the plant.

ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. SEE ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY. VITAMINS AND HORMONES.

Gladys L. Adshead (A); 22Nov71; R517201. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY.

R. Ross Annett (A); 11Aug71; R509685. ANSON, M. L. SEE ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY.

EDSALL, JOHN T. SEE ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY.

ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. SEE ADVANCES IN CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY. VITAMINS AND HORMONES: ADVANCES IN RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS.

ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY.

SEE Advances in protein chemistry.

Advances in protein chemistry.

Academic Press, Inc. (PCW); 24Sep75; R614552. R614553. Advances in protein chemistry.

Methinks he doth protein too much.

Advances in protein chemistry.

To this complex combination, the nature of which has never been determined with exactness, the name of Protein has been applied.

Do we say   protean   or  protein