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substance 音標拼音: [s'ʌbstəns] n. C物質,東西; U基本內容,實質; U財富 C物質,東西; U基本內容,實質; U財富 substance實質 substance實質 substance n 1: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; " DNA is the substance of our genes" 2: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; " the gist of the prosecutor' s argument"; " the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; " the nub of the story" [ synonym: { kernel}, { substance}, { core}, { center}, { centre}, { essence}, { gist}, { heart}, { heart and soul}, { inwardness}, { marrow}, { meat}, { nub}, { pith}, { sum}, { nitty- gritty}] 3: the idea that is intended; " What is the meaning of this proverb?" [ synonym: { meaning}, { substance}] 4: material of a particular kind or constitution; " the immune response recognizes invading substances" 5: considerable capital ( wealth or income); " he is a man of means" [ synonym: { means}, { substance}] 6: what a communication that is about something is about [ synonym: { message}, { content}, { subject matter}, { substance}] 7: a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties; " shigella is one of the most toxic substances known to man" Substance \ Sub" stance\, n. [ F., fr. L. substantia, fr. substare to be under or present, to stand firm; sub under stare to stand. See { Stand}.] 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. [ 1913 Webster] These cooks, how they stamp, and strain, and grind, And turn substance into accident! -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Heroic virtue did his actions guide, And he the substance, not the appearance, chose. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The most important element in any existence; the characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part; essential import; purport. [ 1913 Webster] This edition is the same in substance with the Latin. -- Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster] It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Material possessions; estate; property; resources. [ 1913 Webster] And there wasted his substance with riotous living. -- Luke xv. 13. [ 1913 Webster] Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Can not amount unto a hundred marks. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance, but not for our own interest. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Theol.) Same as { Hypostasis}, 2. [ 1913 Webster]
Substance \ Sub" stance\, v. t. To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 308 Moby Thesaurus words for " substance": Swiss bank account, actuality, affective meaning, affluence, air, amount, amplitude, assets, atom, atomic particles, atoms, axiom, balance, bank account, basis, bearing, being, bench mark, best part, better part, body, bottom, bottom dollar, bottomless purse, brute matter, budget, building block, bulging purse, bulk, burden, call, cardinal point, case, cash reserves, cause, center, chapter, checking account, chemical element, chief thing, climax, coloring, command of money, component, composition, concern, concreteness, connotation, consequence, constituent, core, cornerstone, corporeality, corpus, crisis, critical point, crux, denotation, density, distillate, distillation, drift, durability, earth, easy circumstances, effect, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, elixir, embarras de richesses, entity, essence, essential, essential matter, essentiality, exchequer, extension, extent, fabric, finances, fire, firmness, flower, focus, focus of attention, focus of interest, force, fortune, foundation, fund, fundamental, fundamental particle, funds, generality, gist, gold, good reason, grammatical meaning, gravamen, great point, ground, grounds, handsome fortune, head, heading, heart, high income, high point, high tax bracket, hyle, hypostasis, idea, impact, implication, import, important thing, independence, individual, inner essence, intension, issue, kernel, keystone, kitty, landmark, lexical meaning, life savings, literal meaning, living issue, lucre, luxuriousness, magnitude, main body, main point, main thing, major part, majority, mammon, marrow, mass, material, material basis, material point, material resources, material wealth, material world, materiality, materials, materiel, matter, matter in hand, meaning, meaningfulness, means, measure, measurement, meat, medium, milestone, molecule, monad, money, money to burn, moneybags, moneys, most, motif, motive, natural world, nature, nest egg, nub, nubbin, nucleus, numbers, nuts and bolts, object, opulence, opulency, overtone, palpability, pecuniary resources, pelf, pertinence, physical world, pith, pivot, plenum, plurality, pocket, point, point at issue, point in question, ponderability, pool, possessions, postulate, practical consequence, principle, problem, property, prosperity, prosperousness, purport, purse, quantity, quantum, question, quid, quiddity, quintessence, quintessential, range of meaning, raw material, real issue, real meaning, reality, reason, recap, recapitulation, reference, referent, relation, relevance, reserves, resources, resume, riches, richness, right, rubric, run- through, rundown, salient point, sap, savings, savings account, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, short, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, sine qua non, solidity, soul, soundness, span of meaning, spirit, stability, staple, steadiness, stock, store, stoutness, strength, structural meaning, stuff, sturdiness, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substances, substantiality, substantialness, substantive point, substratum, sum, sum and substance, sum total, summary, summation, supply, symbolic meaning, tangibility, tangible, tenor, text, the bottom line, the four elements, the nitty- gritty, the point, theme, thrust, topic, totality of associations, toughness, transferred meaning, treasure, turning point, unadorned meaning, undertone, unit of being, unregistered bank account, upper bracket, upshot, value, warrant, water, wealth, wealthiness, wherewithal, whole, worth
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