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English

Alternative forms

• substaunce (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English substance, from Old French substance, from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from subst?ns, present active participle of subst? (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + st? (“stand”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?bst?ns/, [?s?bst?nts]

Noun

substance (countable and uncountable, plural substances)

1. Physical matter; material.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     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.

   Synonyms: matter, stuff

2. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.

   • 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.

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace

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

   Synonyms: crux, gist

3. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.

4. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.

   • And there wasted his substance with riotous living.
5. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
6. Drugs (illegal narcotics)

   Synonyms: dope, gear

7. (theology) Hypostasis.

Synonyms

• (physical matter): See also Thesaurus:substance
• (essential part of anything): See also Thesaurus:gist
• (drugs): See also Thesaurus:recreational drug

Related terms

Translations

Verb

substance (third-person singular simple present substances, present participle substancing, simple past and past participle substanced)

1. (rare, transitive) To give substance to; to make real or substantial.

See also

• style

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from subst?ns, present active participle of subst? (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + st? (“stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syp.st??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

substance f (plural substances)

1. substance

Derived terms

Further reading

• “substance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cubassent

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French substance.

Noun

substance

1. essence

Descendants

• English: substance

Old French

Alternative forms

• sostance, sustance

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substantia.

Noun

substance f (oblique plural substances, nominative singular substance, nominative plural substances)

1. most essential; substantial part
2. existence

Related terms

• substantiel

Descendants

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: corps; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of uncertain origin; either from Old Irish cride, from Proto-Celtic *kridyom, from Proto-Indo-European *??r. Possibly Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”). See also heart, corpse.

Noun

core (countable and uncountable, plural cores)

1. The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.

2. The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
3. The center or inner part of a space or area.

   • the core of the square

4. The most important part of a thing; the essence.

5. (botany) Used to designate the main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
6. (engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
7. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
8. (computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory; magnetic data storage.
9. (computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).

10. (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.

11. (engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
12. (military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.

13. A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
14. A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.

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15. A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
16. (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
17. (biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
18. (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
19. (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
20. (physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).

Synonyms

• (The most important part of a thing): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist

Hyponyms

• (central part of fruit): apple core
• (inner part of a physical thing): bifacial core
• (cylindrical sample): drill core

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Translingual: core Caryophyllales, core eudicots, core Malvales

Translations

Adjective

core (not comparable)

1. Forming the most important or essential part.

Verb

core (third-person singular simple present cores, present participle coring, simple past and past participle cored)

1. To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
2. To extract a sample with a drill.

Derived terms

• corer
• uncore
• uncored

Translations

Etymology 2

See corps

Noun

core (plural cores)

1. (obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.

   • He was in a core of people.

Translations

Etymology 3

See chore

Noun

core (plural cores)

1. A miner's underground working time or shift.

Translations

Etymology 4

From Hebrew ?????

Noun

core (plural cores)

1. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.

Etymology 5

Possibly an acronym for cash on return

Noun

core (plural cores)

1. (automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.

References

Anagrams

• ROCE, cero, cero-, creo, ocre

Istriot

Alternative forms

• cor

Etymology

From Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore.

Noun

core

1. heart

   • Ti son la manduleîna del mio core;

     You are the almond of my heart;

Italian

Noun

core (core)

1. Archaic form of cuore.

Latin

Noun

core

1. ablative singular of coris

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore.

Noun

core m (plural core)

1. heart

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English core.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.?i/, /?k??/

Noun

core m (plural cores)

1. (computer architecture) core (independent unit in a processor with several such units)

   Synonym: núcleo

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.?i/

Verb

core

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of corar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of corar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of corar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of corar