different between substance vs nucleus

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nucleus (“kernel, core”), a diminutive of nux (“nut”). The earliest uses refer to the head of a comet and the kernel of a seed, both recorded in Lexicon Technicum in 1704. The sense in atomic physics was coined by English scientist Michael Faraday in 1844 in a theoretical meaning.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nju?.kli.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?nu?kli.?s/

Noun

nucleus (plural nuclei or nucleuses)

1. The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
2. An initial part or version that will receive additions.

   This collection will form the nucleus of a new library.

3. (chemistry, physics) The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons.
4. (cytology) A large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells which contains genetic material.
5. (neuroanatomy) A ganglion, cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs.
6. (phonetics, phonology) The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel.

   Coordinate terms: onset, coda

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• nucules, unclues

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?cleus (“kernel, core”), diminutive of nux (“nut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nykle?j?s/

Noun

nucleus m (plural nucleussen or nuclei, diminutive nucleusje n)

1. nucleus, core

Synonyms

• kern

Related terms

• nucleair
• nucleïne
• nucleon

Latin

Alternative forms

• nuculeus

Etymology

A diminutive of nux (“nut”).

Pronunciation

n?cleus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nu.kle.us/, [?n?k??e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nu.kle.us/, [?nu?kl?us]

n?cleus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nu?.kle.us/, [?nu?k??e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nu.kle.us/, [?nu?kl?us]

Noun

n??cleus m (genitive n??cle?); second declension

1. (literally) (small) nut
2. kernel
3. (figuratively) core
4. nucleus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• n??cle?ris (New Latin)
• n??cle?tus (New Latin)
• n??cle?

Descendants

References

• n??cl?us (n?c?l?us) in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• n?cl?us in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,043/1
• “nucleus” on page 1,199 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)