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Substrate vs Intermediate - What's the difference?

substrate | intermediate |

As nouns the difference between substrate and intermediate

is that substrate is what an enzyme acts upon while intermediate is anything in an intermediate position.

As verbs the difference between substrate and intermediate

is that substrate is to strew or lay under while intermediate is to mediate, to be an intermediate.

As adjectives the difference between substrate and intermediate

is that substrate is having very slight furrows while intermediate is being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

substrate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biochemistry) What an enzyme acts upon.
  • (biology) A surface on which an organism grows or to which it is attached.
    • The rock surface of a rockpool is the substrate for a sessile organism such as a limpet.
  • An underlying layer; a substratum.
  • (linguistics) A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
  • (plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
  • (construction) A surface to which a substance adheres.
  • The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
    • The substrate of an aquarium can affect the water's acidity.
    Stream substrate affects fish longevity.

    Verb

    (substrat)
  • (obsolete) To strew or lay under.
  • * Boyle
    • The melted glass being supported by the substrated sand.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having very slight furrows.

    • See also

    * ("substrate" on Wikipedia)

    intermediate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , which covered his belly to the navel and gave it the air of a flesh brush; and soon I felt it joining close to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both sides.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything in an intermediate position.
  • An intermediary.
  • (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

    • Verb

    (intermediat)
  • to mediate, to be an intermediate
  • to arrange, in the manner of a broker
    • Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.

    Derived terms

    * intermediation *