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substance |
WordNet 2.0 |
- that which has mass and occupies space |
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- the idea that is intended |
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- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience |
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- what a communication that is about something is about |
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- considerable capital (wealth or income) |
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- the stuff of which an object consists |
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| Substance |
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes anything what it is; real or existing essence. "These cooks, how they stamp, and strain, and grind, And turn substance into accident!" -- Chaucer. "Heroic virtue did his actions guide, And he the substance, not the appearance, chose." -- Dryden. 2. The most important element in any existence; the characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part; essential import; purport. "This edition is the same in substance with the Latin." -- Bp. Burnet. "It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming." -- Burke. 3. Body; matter; material of which a thing is made; hence, substantiality; solidity; firmness; as, the substance of which a garment is made; some textile fabrics have little substance. 4. Material possessions; estate; property; resources. "And there wasted his substance with riotous living." -- Luke xv. 13. "Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Can not amount unto a hundred marks." -- Shak. "We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance, but not for our own interest." -- Swift. 5. (Theol.) Same as Hypostasis, 2. |
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1. To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. [Obs.] |
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