Substance vs Saturant - What's the difference?
substance | saturant |
Physical matter; material.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
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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.
Impregnating to the full; saturating.
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
A substance which is used to saturate another.
(medicine) An antacid, such as magnesia, used to reduce stomach acidity.
As nouns the difference between substance and saturant
is that substance is physical matter; material while saturant is a substance which is used to saturate another.As an adjective saturant is
impregnating to the full; saturating.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.
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances , which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
- 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
* style 1000 English basic words ----saturant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.