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Definition: Substrate |
SubstrateNoun1. The substance acted upon by an enzyme or ferment. 2. Any stratum lying underneath another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "substrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Substrate |
Chemical Industry | The material upon which paints or varnishes are applied. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Base on which organic colorants are precipitated to form lakes. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | In microelectronics, the physical material on which a circuit is fabricated. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | The physical material upon which a photovoltaic cell is applied. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A)a material underlying something, e. g. the soil below plants or animals; b)the nutritive medium on which organisms grow or are grown; c)a lower layer of soil or rock, particularly as distinguished from the overlying solum profile. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A substance upon which an enzyme acts. (references) |
Industry | A material on whose surface an adhesive is spread for any purpose. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A construction, integral with the use-surface and composed of one or more layers, which serves as a support for the use-surface and possibly stabilizes the dimensions and/or acts as a cushion. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | The top surface of the metal before application of the coating. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A layer of metal underlying a coating, regardless of whether the layer is basis metal b. The true lattice of a crystal, as distinct from its discontinuitylattice, or surface. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In biology, a substrate is an environment in which an organism lives, and which it feeds on. For example, in many households, a bruised apple is a substrate for the growth of a fungus
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Substrate."
Synonym: SubstrateSynonym: substratum (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Substrate |
| English words defined with "substrate": attached ♦ epitaxy ♦ genus Rhizopus ♦ isomerase ♦ pedunculate ♦ sessile, stalked ♦ valence, valency. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "substrate": epitaxial heavily-doped substrate slice ♦ heavily-doped substrate slice ♦ salt substrate, sodium substrate, sublimated substrate, sublimation-growth epitaxial substrate, substrate carrier, Substrate Cycling, substrate gate, substrate spacer, substrate specificity ♦ TESTER, WAFER SUBSTRATE. (references) |
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 | On the gulf side looking back at the Greenhill Production Facility, standing on newly deposited sediment that will provide the substrate to build the marsh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Spartina alterniflora was planted at several cell sites around East Timbalier Island. This cell was not very successful. The Spartina did not take well as the platform substrate was determined to be too high for Spartina to flourish. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | This project was conducted to determine if geotube material could be used to as suitable substrate for oyster spat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Substrate stabilization manipulation experiment on Prudence Island. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Submerged mangrove roots provide a stable substrate where many organisms can live. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Reef fish feeding on damselfish eggs attached to substrate. Chaetodon miliaris are three yellow fish on bottom right. Blue striped fish are Chaetodon sp. Forcipiger longirostris is bright yellow fish in background. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Schematic presentation of a protein containing a cleft, in equilibrium between two states in which either water molecules (dark blue dots) or substrate (yellow) are bound. Increasing osmotic pressure shifts the equilibrium towards the state in which water is released from the cleft. Credit: NICHD. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Substrate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.86% of the time. "Substrate" is used about 199 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 71.86% | 143 | 26,451 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 23.12% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.02% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.01% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 199 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "substrate": epitaxial substrate ♦ MOS substrate ♦ salt substrate ♦ sodium substrate ♦ sublimated substrate ♦ substrate carrier ♦ Substrate Cycling ♦ substrate gate ♦ substrate spacer ♦ substrate specificity. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "substrate": substrate-coating, substrate-specific. | |
Ending with "substrate": co-substrate, non-substrate, on-substrate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "substrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 基". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | substrat (bulk, substratum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | substraat (bulk, subsoil, substratum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | substraatti (substratum), pohjalevy (bolster, die bolster), Alusta/materiaali, alusta (base, basis, bed, bench, chassis, coaster, easel, foundation, mat, mount, stand, tressle, workbench), alusrakenne (substructure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | support subjectile (support), support de laque, Support / substrat, support (support, supporter), substratum (subbing, subbing layer, substratum), substrat (substratum), subjectile (support), soubassement (substratum), plaquette-support, matériaux de base, couche sous-jacente (subjacent bed), base substrat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Substrat (substratum), Trägermaterial (base, cap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπόστρωμα (substratum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | táptalaj (substrata, substratum), szubsztrátum (substrata, substratum), fekü (substrata, substratum), altalaj (subgrade, subsoil, substrata, substratum, undersoil), alsó talajréteg, alsó réteg (substrata, substratum), alaphegység (substrata, substratum), alap (base, basis, bedrock, bottom, cause, chief, claim, footing, foundation, foundations, fund, grounding, groundwork, main, Patten, principle, substructure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | substrato (substratum, underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 基板 (circuit board), 回路基板 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きば" (basis, circuit board, foundation), かいろきば". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 기질. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubstratesay substrato (base materials, base metal, metal basis, substratum, support). (various references) подложка. (various references) sustrato (substratum). (various references) substrat (boule, nutrient, substratum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "substrate": substrates. (additional references) | |
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"Substrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: substarte, substrase, subtrate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "substrate" (pronounced su"bstrā't) |
| 5 | -s t r ā' t | administrate, castrate, demonstrate, frustrate, illustrate, magistrate, orchestrate. |
| 4 | -t r ā' t | arbitrate, concentrate, infiltrate, nitrate, penetrate, perpetrate. |
| 3 | -r ā' t | airfreight, aspirate, birthrate, calibrate, carbohydrate, celebrate, consecrate, denigrate, disintegrate, emigrate, gyrate, hydrate, immigrate, integrate, migrate, narrate, reintegrate, serrate, vertebrate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: abstruse, abutters, buttress, statures, substate. | |
-2 letters: abusers, abutter, arbutes, basters, batters, battues, breasts, bursate, busters, butters, rubasse, starets, staters, statues, stature, stratus, subtest, surbase, tasters. | |
-3 letters: abuser, abuses, arbute, assert, assure, asters, astute, barest, basest, basset, baster, bastes, batter, battue, beasts, beauts, bettas, breast, brutes, burets, bursae, bursas, burses, bursts, buster, butter, buttes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: abstrusest, substrates. | |
+2 letters: masturbates, subtracters. | |
+3 letters: abstrusities, subsaturated. | |
+4 letters: counterblasts, misattributes. | |
+5 letters: distributaries, subdepartments, subliteratures, trustabilities. | |
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