Substance vs Mode - What's the difference?
substance | mode |
Physical matter; material.
* 1699 , ,
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* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* Bishop Burnet
* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
* Bible, (w) xv. 13
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
Drugs (illegal narcotics)
(theology) Hypostasis.
(music) One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale
A particular means of accomplishing something.
* 1855 , Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (volume 9, page 205)
(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
(mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
As nouns the difference between substance and mode
is that substance is physical matter; material while mode is fashion, trend.substance
English
(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.
See also
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English
(wikipedia mode)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mode, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- What was the mode of entry?
- An effectual and unexpensive mode of Protecting Wall-Trees from Spring-Frosts.
- In insert mode , characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer
