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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The material or substance on which an enzyme acts.
  2. n. Biology A surface on which an organism grows or is attached.
  3. n. An underlying layer; a substratum.
  4. n. Linguistics An indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A substratum.
  2. To strew or lay under anything.

Wiktionary

  1. n. biochemistry What an enzyme acts upon.
  2. n. biology A surface on which an organism grows or to which it is attached.
  3. n. An underlying layer; a substratum.
  4. n. linguistics A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
  5. n. plating A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
  6. n. construction A surface to which a substance adheres.
  7. n. The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
  8. v. obsolete, transitive To strew or lay under.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare A substratum.
  2. adj. rare Having very slight furrows.
  3. v. obsolete To strew or lay under anything.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any stratum or layer lying underneath another
  2. n. a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
  3. n. an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
  4. n. the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment

Etymologies

  1. Anglicization of substratum. (Wiktionary)
  2. From substratum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “In a breakthrough discovery, we found that the target substrate is covalently modified by multiple moieties of APF-1, a reversible modification that renders the protein substrate susceptible to degradation.”

    Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography

  • “When a language, Latin in this case, imposes on a preexisting one, as Latin did Celtic, the original local language is called a substrate language: it sits on a stratum under sub the new language.”

    Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

  • “Typically, the light in the substrate is internally reflected and runs parallel and not perpendicular.”

    More-Efficient OLED Lighting « Isegoria

  • “To overcome this problem, the Purdue researchers developed a means to create LEDs on low-cost, metal-coated silicon wafers, whereby the the silicon substrate is metalized with a built-in reflective layer of zirconium nitride.”

    Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » New Low Cost LED Technology

  • “Techniques for creating easel paintings will not successfully color cloth for clothing even if the common substrate is a textile, but neither will they necessarily provide good color for a wall or a metal sign. reference The preparation of the substrate, the application of a coloring material (or materials) and how it is made permanent, the tools needed for application — all of these varied.”

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe

  • “In the next step, a flat rubber substrate is stretched and placed on top of the ribbons.”

    Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives

  • “Accordingly, we hypothesized that covalent attachment of multiple moieties of APF-1 to the target substrate is necessary to render it susceptible to degradation by a downstream protease that recognizes only tagged but not untagged proteins, followed by the release of free and reusable APF-1.”

    Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography

  • “Added labeled reaction product rebounds to substrate when unlabeled substrate is added showing that the product form of the enzyme is slow to recycle, the Britton counterflow effect36, 37.”

    Irwin Rose - Autobiography

  • “Changes in the active site of an enzyme that occur when a substrate is converted to product must be reversed before the reaction can occur again.”

    Irwin Rose - Autobiography

  • “If, as Hameroff-Penrose suggests, the causal substrate is quantum-dynamic on the seriously sub-cellular level of NCCs, cognitive science will have to accept global properties that don't magically 'emerge', but are there all the way down – it's called "Coherence," the technical term for quantum entanglement (non-locality).”

    Causal Consciousness – Science of Mind

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  1. substratum

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  1. stratum
  1. surface
  1. indigenous language
  1. substance

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  2. antigen
  3. lipid
  4. transistor
  5. polymer
  1. peptide
  2. ligand
  3. resistor
  4. kinase
  5. molecule
  1. membrane
  2. antibody
  3. silicon
  4. transduction
  5. platelet
  1. fibers
  2. mrna
  3. catalytic
  4. catalyst
  5. nitride
  1. inhibitor
  2. carbohydrate
  3. receptor
  4. glucose
  5. microcircuit
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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. neuropsychic
  2. constitutive
  3. lyase
  4. oxidase
  5. oxygenase
  1. respiratory enzyme
  2. holdfast
  3. electron transport
  4. attached
  5. valence
  1. valency
  2. hydrogenase
  3. hydrase
  4. active site
  5. infauna
  1. dehydrogenase
  2. competitive
  3. polyimide
  4. recognition
  5. sessile
  1. bind
  2. bog
  3. evaporate
  4. recognize
  5. substratum
  1. epitaxy
  2. genus rhizopus
  3. isomerase

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  1. mycelium

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