Inhibitor vs Poison - What's the difference?
inhibitor | poison |
(chemistry) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.
(biology) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific biological process
A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.
Something that harms a person or thing.
(informal) A drink; liquor.
To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody
To pollute; to cause some part of the environment to become poisonous
To cause something to become much worse
To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions
As nouns the difference between inhibitor and poison
is that inhibitor is any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction while poison is a substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.As a verb poison is
to use poison to kill or paralyse somebody.inhibitor
English
(wikipedia inhibitor)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* inhibitorySee also
* catalyst ----poison
English
(wikipedia poison)Noun
(en noun)- We used a poison to kill the weeds.
- Gossip is a malicious poison .
- - What's your poison ?
- - I'll have a glass of whisky.
Synonyms
* (substance that is harmful) atter, bane, contaminant, pollutant, toxin, venomDerived terms
* poison gas * poison hemlock * poison ivy * poison oak * poison-pen letter * poison pill * poison sumac * poisoner * poisoning * poisonous * poisonwood * rat poison * what's your poisonVerb
(en verb)- The assassin poisoned the king.
- That factory is poisoning the river.
- Suspicion will poison their relationship.
- He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.
- She's poisoned him against all his old friends.
