gluten en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɡluːtən/
- /ˈɡluːtn̩/
- (US) audio
Etymology
From Middle French gluten, borrowed from Latin glūten (“glue”).
Meanings
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable) Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours").
The Radicall or innate, is dayly ſupplied by nouriſhment, which ſome call Cambium, and make thoſe ſecundary Humors of Ros and Gluten to maintaine it: […]
1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Division of the Body. Humors, Spirits.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 1, member 2, subsection 2, page 20:
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(countable, rare, uncountable) Any gluey, sticky substance.
[T]he Fly suspends it self very firmly and easily, without the access or need of any such Sponges fill'd with an imaginary gluten, as many have, for want of good Glasses, perhaps, or a troublesome and diligent examination, suppos'd.
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXVII:[H]is nose is running in bubbly gluten over his lips onto his chin […].
1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 188:The tyrant machine is the female body, grinding and milling the pulp of matter, the gluten of human flesh.
1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
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(countable, uncountable) The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread.
Chew on a small piece of dough, and it becomes more compact but persists as a gum-like, elastic mass, the residue that the Chinese named “the muscle of flour” and that we call gluten. It consists mainly of protein, and includes what may well be the largest protein molecules to be found in the natural world.
2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:Unfortunately, wholemeal bread is, according to many experts, a tricky thing to get right, as the lower gluten content of the flour makes for dense results […]
2010 June 10, Felicity Cloake, “Word of Mouth Blog”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
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(countable, uncountable) A gluey, sticky mass of clay, bitumen etc.
Despite constant rain that turned roads to gluten, the Yankees kept moving.
1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 669:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| glutens | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
gluten casein · gluten bread · glutelin · gluten-free · antigluten · gluteny · glutinoid · glutard · glutenless · glutenfree · gluten fibrin · nongluten · glutenin
Relateds
glutamic · glutinous · gluta- · glutinaceous
Translations (39)
mk глуте́н (cereal protein) · el γλουτένη (cereal protein) · ru глюте́н (cereal protein) · frs gluuteen (cereal protein) · mi kurutene (cereal protein) · ca gluten (cereal protein) · hu sikér (cereal protein) · pt glúten (cereal protein) · de Gluten (cereal protein) · sl gluten (cereal protein) · nl gluten (cereal protein) · sv gluten (cereal protein) · acw قلوتن (cereal protein) · fr gluten (cereal protein) · pl gluten (cereal protein) · hu glutén (cereal protein) · lv glutēns (cereal protein) · cmn 麵筋 /面筋 (cereal protein) · he גְלוּטֵן (cereal protein) · yi קליישטאָף (cereal protein) · ja グルテン (cereal protein) · no gluten (cereal protein) · yi גלוטען (cereal protein) · yi גלוטן (cereal protein) · co glutinu (cereal protein) · cmn 麩質 /麸质 (cereal protein) · es gluten (cereal protein) · ko 글루텐 (cereal protein) · ru клейкови́на (cereal protein) · io gluteno (cereal protein) · it glutine (cereal protein) · sw gluteni (cereal protein) · is glúten (cereal protein) · cs lepek (cereal protein) · fi gluteeni (cereal protein) · ar غْلُوتِين (cereal protein) · lv lipeklis (cereal protein) · eo gluteno (cereal protein) · bg глутен (cereal protein)