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substance
That which is real or practical in quality or character; practical value:
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  1. That which is real or practical in quality or character; practical value:
  2. Matter of a particular kind or chemical composition
  3. Material possessions; goods; wealth:
essence
(Philos.) The inward nature of anything, underlying its manifestations; true substance
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  1. (Philos.) The inward nature of anything, underlying its manifestations; true substance
  2. A substance that keeps, in concentrated form, the flavor, fragrance, or other properties of the plant, drug, food, etc. from which it is extracted; essential oil
  3. An extract that has the fundamental properties of a substance in concentrated form.
significance
That which is signified; meaning
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  1. That which is signified; meaning
  2. A meaning that is expressed or implied:
  3. The state or quality of being significant:
core
A cylindrical sample of rock, ice, or other material obtained from the center of a mass by drilling or cutting.
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  1. A cylindrical sample of rock, ice, or other material obtained from the center of a mass by drilling or cutting.
  2. (Anatomy) The muscles in the trunk of the human body, including those of the abdomen and chest, that stabilize the spine, pelvis, and shoulders.
  3. (Elec.) A mass of magnetic material placed inside a wire coil, serving to channel and increase the strength of the magnetic field resulting from current in the coil
essence
The inherent, unchanging nature of a thing or class of things.
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  1. The inherent, unchanging nature of a thing or class of things.
  2. A substance that keeps, in concentrated form, the flavor, fragrance, or other properties of the plant, drug, food, etc. from which it is extracted; essential oil
  3. (Philos.) The inward nature of anything, underlying its manifestations; true substance
heart
Emotional constitution, basic disposition, or character:
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  1. Emotional constitution, basic disposition, or character:
  2. The human heart considered as the center or source of emotions, personality attributes, etc.
  3. A person esteemed or admired as lovable, loyal, or courageous:
kernel
The central, most important part of something; core; essence
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  1. The central, most important part of something; core; essence
  2. A small amount of something, especially when potentially developing into something else:
  3. The usually edible seed inside the hard covering of a nut or fruit stone.
marrow
The inmost, choicest, or essential part; the pith.
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  1. The inmost, choicest, or essential part; the pith.
  2. The soft, vascular, fatty tissue that fills the cavities of most bones
  3. (Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
meat
The flesh of animals used as food, esp. the flesh of mammals or, often, of fowl
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  1. The flesh of animals used as food, esp. the flesh of mammals or, often, of fowl
  2. The essence, substance, or gist:
  3. (Vulgar Slang) The human body regarded as an object of sexual desire.
nub
The essence; the core:
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  1. The essence; the core:
  2. A small piece
  3. (Informal) The point of a story or gist of a matter
pith
The soft, spongy tissue in the center of certain plant stems
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  1. The soft, spongy tissue in the center of certain plant stems
  2. The soft core of various other things, as of a bone or feather
  3. The soft, spongy tissue in the center of the stems of most flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns. Pith is composed of parenchyma cells. In plants that undergo secondary growth, such as angiosperms, the pith is surrounded by the vascular tissues and is gradually compressed by the inward growth of the vascular tissue known as xylem. In plants with woody stems, the pith dries out and often disintegrates as the plant grows older, leaving the stem hollow.
quintessence
The most nearly perfect or most typical manifestation of a quality or thing
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  1. The most nearly perfect or most typical manifestation of a quality or thing
  2. A form of dark energy due to a hypothetical scalar field that permeates all space, the energy density of which varies across space and time, in contrast to the cosmological constant.
  3. In ancient and medieval philosophy, the fifth and highest essence after the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water, thought to be the substance of the heavenly bodies and latent in all things.
root
The source, origin, or cause of an action, quality, condition, etc.
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  1. The source, origin, or cause of an action, quality, condition, etc.
  2. (Linguis.) The fundamental element of a word or form, exclusive of all affixes and inflectional phonetic changes
  3. A plant part that usually grows underground, secures the plant in place, absorbs minerals and water, and stores food manufactured by leaves and other plant parts. Roots grow in a root system. Eudicots and magnoliids have a central, longer, and larger taproot with many narrower lateral roots branching off, while monocots have a mass of threadlike fibrous roots , which are roughly the same length and remain close to the surface of the soil. In vascular plants, roots usually consist of a central cylinder of vascular tissue, surrounded by the pericycle and endodermis, then a thick layer of cortex, and finally an outer epidermis or (in woody plants) periderm. Only finer roots (known as feeder roots) actively take up water and minerals, generally in the uppermost meter of soil. These roots absorb minerals primarily through small epidermal structures known as root hairs. In certain plants, adventitious roots grow out from the stem above ground as aerial roots or prop roots, bending down into the soil, to facilitate the exchange of gases or increase support. Certain plants (such as the carrot and beet) have fleshy storage roots with abundant parenchyma in their vascular tissues.
soul
A sense of emotional strength or spiritual vitality held to derive from black and especially African-American cultural experience, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.
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  1. A sense of emotional strength or spiritual vitality held to derive from black and especially African-American cultural experience, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.
  2. A person considered as the embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification:
  3. The spirit of a dead person, thought of as separate from the body and leading an existence of its own
spirit
Strong loyalty or dedication:
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  1. Strong loyalty or dedication:
  2. A person as characterized by a stated quality:
  3. A force or principle believed to animate humans and often to endure after departing from the body of a person at death; the soul.
stuff
(Sports) The control a player has over a ball, especially to give it spin, english, curve, or speed.
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  1. (Sports) The control a player has over a ball, especially to give it spin, english, curve, or speed.
  2. Constituent elements or basic nature; essence; character
  3. Matter or substance of an unspecified or generalized kind
substance
Matter of a particular kind or chemical composition
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  1. Matter of a particular kind or chemical composition
  2. Material possessions; goods; wealth:
  3. That which is real or practical in quality or character; practical value:
gravamen
(Law) The essential part of a complaint or accusation
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  1. (Law) The essential part of a complaint or accusation
  2. The main claim or most important aspect of a complaint against a defendant.
  3. The substance or core argument of a legal document or position taken. The substance or core argument of a legal document or position taken.
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  • This must have been the gist of the special revelation.

  • c. i.); but the gist of his speech was the need of Jerusalem.

  • His creed, and the whole gist of his argument, is expressed in a single sentence, "I am fully assured that God does not, and therefore that men ought not to, require any more of any man than this, to believe the Scripture to be God's word, and to endeavour to find the true sense of it, and to live according to it."

  • They sent a copy of their old creed to Babken, and it closely resembles the Adoptianist creed of Archelaus, the gist of which was that Jesus, until his thirtieth year, was a man mortal like other men; then, because he was righteous above all others, he was promoted to the honour and name of Son of God.

  • Hart in The Jewish Quarterly Review for July 1907, the gist of which is that Jesus commends the Pharisees for insisting that when a man has vowed a vow to God he should pay it even though his parents should suffer.

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