Meaning of substance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. juice (liquid from a plant)
2. Physical matter; material
3. Physical matter; material.
   countable, uncountable
4. substance (the most vital part of something)
5. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties
6. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
   countable, uncountable
7. The essential part of anything; the most vital part
8. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
   countable, uncountable
9. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
   countable, uncountable
10. Substantiality; solidity; firmness
11. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
    countable, uncountable
12. Material possessions; estate; property; resources
13. Drugs (illegal narcotics)
    countable, uncountable
14. Ousia, essence; underlying reality or hypostasis in the philosophical sense.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.”

“His wasted hands were stretched out, and worked with a quick and convulsive motion, as if catching some small substances which kept eluding their grasp;...”

“Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.”

“Heroic virtue did his actions guide, / And he the substance, not the appearance, chose.”

“1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.”

“It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.”

“Some textile fabrics have little substance.”

“a man of substance”

“And there wasted his substance with riotous living.”

“Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, / Cannot amount unto a hundred marks.”

“And as we have waſted our Strength and vital Subſtance in this profuſe manner, ſo we have ſhamefully miſapplied it to Ends at leaſt very different from thoſe for which we undertook the War, and often to effect others which after a Peace we may ſeverely repent.”

“substance abuse”

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