Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The mixture of proteins, including gliadins, found in wheat grains, that are not soluble in water and that give wheat dough its elastic texture.
- n. Any of the prolamins found in cereal grains, especially the prolamins in wheat, rye, barley, and possibly oats, that cause digestive disorders such as celiac disease.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The nitrogenous part of the flour of wheat and other grains, which is insoluble in water. On kneading wheat flour in a stream of water to remove the starch, the gluten remains as a tough elastic substance, sometimes called
wheat gum . On the physical and chemical character of the gluten the baking quality of flour largely depends. Gluten is a mixture of at least four different albuminoids: gluten-casein (which is similar to the casein of milk), gluten-fibrin (which has some resemblance to animal fibrin), mucedin, and gliadin. - n. A glue-like animal secretion: for example, the sticky material secreted by swallows in nest-building.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough
Etymologies
- From French gluten, from Latin glūten ("glue"). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Latin glūten, glue. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My question to them would be why do they think forcing the word gluten into the product's nomenclature is a solid marketing strategy?”
“FALCPA also requires the US Food and Drug Administration to develop and finalize rules for the use of the term gluten free on product labels.”
“For wheat, the term gluten includes the gliadin and glutenin protein families.”
“Yet despite the progress and the general feeling that most people are actually now at least familiar with the term gluten, most restaurants still do little to cater to diners with these specific needs.”
“Replace all sugary cereals, which lead to the famous 10: 00 a.m. fatigue, with toasted whole-grain gluten free-bread (kids love the corn-based version!)”
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“The lining of the small intestine heals after gluten is removed from the diet.”
“Elimination of gluten from the diet improves the symptoms.”
“Does not contain gluten and it is often mixed with other, gluten containing flours for baking and cooking.”
“In mixtures with other gluten free binders and grains it is also a mainstay in gluten free breads.”
“An extra half tablespoon of vital wheat gluten is all it took, but had I not caught it in time these would have been more like handcuffs shackling me to the kitchen instead of supple snakes of chewy bread that I could shape and boil!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gluten’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Bread-related Words
Words related to bread and bread-making
barm, ferment, knead, couche, proof, gluten, rustic, brioche, semolina, durum, rye, yeast and 21 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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food
tiramisu, gelato, mousse, mascarpone, Battenberg cake, crimini, flatbread, bisque, grub, connoisseur, sate, gluttonous and 8 more...
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McSkeletor's Words
inchoate, amortization, piperack, epistemological, moustachioed, thaumaturgy, reprehensible, incommunicado, sackbut, atavistic, velocipede, antediluvian and 58 more...
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camgurl's Words
discombobulated, anti-macassar, amok, bifurcate, dado, gorgon, substrate, matrix, succulent, surreptitious, hijinks, foolhardy and 38 more...
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Saien's Words
tiansheng lizhi, qingguo qingcheng, nuance, exquisite, saien, shizhe rusi, honglou meng, 天上人間, �?�味, 太上忘情, gottfried, orpheus and 41 more...
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Food and Cooking
Tweets
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dailyword A lot of people are allergic to this. Dec 25, 2012