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-ase
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
| -ase | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| indicating an enzyme: oxidase | |
| [abstracted from | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
-ase
suffix used in naming enzymes, from ending of diastase.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
-ase suff.
Enzyme: amylase.
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
| -ase
A suffix used to form the names of enzymes. It is often added to the name of the compound that the enzyme breaks down, as in lactase, which breaks down lactose. It is also added to a word describing the enzyme's activity, as in transferase, which catalyzes the transfer of a chemical group from one molecule to another, or reductase, which catalyzes the reduction of an organic compound. |
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