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Polysemic vs Dehydrase - What's the difference?

polysemic | dehydrase |

As an adjective polysemic

is (linguistics) having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings.

As a noun dehydrase is

(biochemistry|disused).

polysemic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (linguistics) Having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings.

    • Synonyms

    * polysemantic * polysemous

    Antonyms

    * monosemous

    Related terms

    * oligosemic * polyseme * polysemy

    dehydrase

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biochemistry, disused)
  • * 1914 , , volume 8, page 3,051
    • It is shown by means of a typical dehydrase , Schardinger’s milk enzyme, that oxidase, reductase and mutase are 1 and the same enzyme.
  • * 1939 , , A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry [4th ed.], volume 3, page 553, column 2
    • Citric acid dehydrase is present in the liver and in vegetable material acting on citric acid.
  • * 1959 , N. Campbell [contrib.] and Ernest Harry Rodd [ed.], Chemistry of Carbon Compounds , volume 4B, chapter 8, page 942
    • Freudenberg also postulates a second process whereby catechins in the presence of dehydrases undergo condensation by dehydrogenation.
  • (biochemistry, disused)
  • * 1953 , Advances in Enzymology , volume 14, page 243
    • The usual English term ‘dehydrase ’ for an enzyme dehydrating a substrate was changed to dehydratase, because Dehydrase in German…means a dehydrogenating enzyme rather than an enzyme splitting off water.
  • * 1957 , , volume 16, page 480
    • The enzymic dehydration of tartaric acid to oxaloacetic acid, first established…for the d''-isomer, occurs also with the ''meso''- and ''l''-isomers, and the attack on all three tartaric acids by bacteria of the genus ''Pseudomonas appears to occur principally by means of stereospecific dehydrases .

    Usage notes

    * The polysemic term (term) has been superseded by the more specific terms dehydrogenase and dehydratase since its proscription by the , Report of the Committee on Enzymes (1961), chapter 6, page 34
    ?The name ‘dehydrase’, which has been used for both dehydrogenating and dehydrating enzymes, will not be used. ‘Dehydrogenase’ will be used for the former and ‘dehydratase’ for the latter.

    References

    * “ dehydrase]” listed in the [2nd ed., 1989