Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An underlying layer.
- noun A layer of earth beneath the surface soil; subsoil.
- noun A foundation or groundwork.
- noun The material on which another material is coated or fabricated.
- noun Philosophy The characterless substance that supports attributes of reality.
- noun Biology A substrate.
- noun Linguistics A substrate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which is laid or spread under; a stratum lying under another; in agriculture, the subsoil; hence, anything which underlies or supports: as, a substratum of truth.
- noun In metaphysics, substance, or matter, as that in which qualities inhere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under another; specifically (Agric.), the subsoil.
- noun (Metaph.) The permanent subject of qualities or cause of phenomena; substance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
layer that lies underneath another - noun figuratively The underlying cause or
basis of something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
- noun an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
- noun any stratum or layer lying underneath another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Is it not sufficiently expressed in the term substratum, or substance?
The First Dialogue 1909
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If we take away the useful labour expended upon them, a material substratum is always left, which is furnished by Nature without the help of man.
skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 2 Post 3 skzbrust 2010
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If we take away the useful labour expended upon them, a material substratum is always left, which is furnished by Nature without the help of man.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010
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The word substratum is used only to express in general the same thing with substance.
The First Dialogue 1909
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If so, the word substratum should import that it is spread under the sensible qualities or accidents?
The First Dialogue 1909
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The substratum is the cause of a thing's being or existence; the process of shaping or forming is the cause of its being a particular kind of being or existent, that is, of its having one set of qualities rather than another.
Concepts of God Wainwright, William 2006
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Third, is that idea of substance as a bare substratum, which is “a supposed, I know not what, to support those ideas we call accidents.” (xxiii 15).
Substance Robinson, Howard 2004
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For if the change is ‘alteration’, then the substratum is a single element; i.e. all things which admit of change into one another have a single matter.
On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002
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Nor does matter belong to those things which exist by nature but are not substances; their substratum is the substance.
Metaphysics Aristotle 2002
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(A) ultimate substratum, which is no longer predicated of anything else, and (B) that which, being a ‘this’, is also separable and of this nature is the shape or form of each thing.
Metaphysics Aristotle 2002
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