Substrate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The material or substance on which an enzyme acts.
  • n. Biology A surface on which an organism grows or is attached.
  • n. An underlying layer; a substratum.
  • n. Linguistics An indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. What an enzyme acts upon.
  • n. A surface on which an organism grows or to which it is attached.
  • n. An underlying layer; a substratum.
  • n. A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
  • n. A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
  • n. A surface to which a substance adheres.
  • n. The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
  • v. To strew or lay under.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A substratum.
  • adj. Having very slight furrows.
  • v. To strew or lay under anything.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A substratum.
  • To strew or lay under anything.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any stratum or layer lying underneath another
  • n. a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
  • n. an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
  • n. the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment
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