Word Meanings - INVERTASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.

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• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• INVERTASE
  An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.
• ENZYME
  An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• INVERTEBRATA
  A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.
• INVERTIN
  An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• INVERTEDLY
  In an inverted order. Derham.
• INVERTEBRATED
  Having no backbone; invertebrate.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• SUGARED
  Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• LACTOSE
  Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
  The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.
• COEXTENSION
  The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
• OVERCAPABLE
  Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.