Substances Synonyms

The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. thrusts
  2. tenors
  3. tendencies
  4. purports
  5. meanings
  6. intents
  7. drifts
  8. burdens
  9. aims
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. meanings
  2. cores
  3. matters
  4. things
  5. piths
  6. elements
  7. stuffs
  8. spirits
  9. meats
  10. souls
  11. marrows
  12. nubs
  13. hearts
  14. sums
  15. objects
  16. tenors
  17. entities
  18. gravamina
  19. worths
  20. strengths
  21. essences
  22. kernels
  23. significances
  24. animals
  25. resources
  26. beings
  27. realities
  28. purports
  29. properties
  30. roots
  31. persons
  32. materialities
  33. items
  34. materials
  35. masses
  36. ingredients
  37. foci
  38. fabrics
  39. centers
  40. estates
  41. burdens
  42. bodies
  43. bases
  44. backbones
The general sense or significance, as of an action or statement
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tenors
  2. purports
  3. imports
  4. drifts
  5. burdens
  6. amounts
What a communication that is about something is about
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. essences
  2. messages
  3. piths
  4. textures
  5. essentialities
  6. cores
  7. beings
  8. bodies
That from which things are or can be made
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. stuffs
  2. matters
  3. materials
That which occupies space and can be perceived by the senses
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. materialities
  2. matters

Substances Sentence Examples

  • The word "flocculent" is used of many substances which have a fleecy or "flock"-like appearance, such as a precipitate of ferric hydrate.

  • The question again arises, what has become of the original substances?

  • Cellulose has an affinity for acid stains, pectic substances for basic stains.

  • In such cases the characters of the adult tissue clearly depend solely upon the characters of the cell-walls, and it is usual in plant-anatomy to speak of the wall with its enclosed cavity as the cell, and the contained protoplasm or other substances, if present, as cell-contents.

  • These layers arc secreted by the protoplasm by the direct apposition of substances on those already in existence; and they may go on increasing in thickness, both by apposition and by the intussusception of particles probably carried in through the protoplasmic fibres, which penetrate the cell-wall as long as the cell lives.

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