Substance vs Basis - What's the difference?
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Physical matter; material.
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* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
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* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
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* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
Drugs (illegal narcotics)
(theology) Hypostasis.
A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
An underlying condition or circumstance.
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(linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
(accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
(topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
As nouns the difference between substance and basis
is that substance is physical matter; material while basis is a starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.substance
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(wikipedia substance)Alternative forms
* substaunce (archaic)Noun
(en noun)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.
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- Heroic virtue did his actions guide, / And he the substance , not the appearance, chose.
- This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.
- It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.
- And there wasted his substance with riotous living.
- Thy substance , valued at the highest rate, / Cannot amount unto a hundred marks.
- We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance , but not for our own interest.
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(en-noun)- Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis , a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
- You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
- The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis .
- Cars must be checked on a yearly basis .