noun
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(grammar) a word that names a person, place, thing or idea; a noun (sensu stricto)
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Part of a text that carries the meaning, such as words and their ordering.
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(grammar) to make a word belonging to another part of speech into a substantive (that is, a noun) or use it as a noun
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adjective
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Of the essence or essential element of a thing; as, "substantive information"
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Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial
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Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right; as, "substantive law"
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Of a dye that does not need the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed
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Depending on itself; independent.
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(grammar) used like a noun substantive
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(of a rank or appointment) actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment
Examples of substantive in a Sentence
In other cases the pronunciation can be ascertained only from the context, as in use, unvoiced for the substantive, voiced for the verb.
Though, for simplicity and universality of thought, even in science, we must use the abstraction of attributes, and, by the necessity and weakness of language, must signify what are not substances by nouns substantive, we must guard against the over-abstraction of believing that a thing exists as we abstract it.
Derivatives of this group are important as substantive cotton dyestuffs.
But, as usual, Voltaire's extraordinary literary industry was shown rather in a vast amount of fugitive writings than in substantive works, though for the whole space of his Cirey residence he was engaged in writing, adding to, and altering the Pucelle.
Amid much that is uncertain and even legendary about his work in Britain, this is plain, that he fixed on the line of Hadrian's wall as his substantive frontier.
Do you have anything substantive to say (apart from confirming my arguments ), or is this it?
Ptolemaei magnam compositionem (printed at Venice in 1496), and his own De Triangulis (Nuremberg, 1533), the earliest work treating of trigonometry as a substantive science.
The latter on reduction yields a diamino compound, the disulphonic acid of which on diazotization and coupling with a phenol, &c., gives valuable substantive cotton dyes after the type yielded by Benzidine.
Some nominative formsDis (anciently Dios, and in the Castilian of the Jews Dlo), Cdrias, Mdrcos, sastre (s a r t 0 r) have been adopted instead of forms derived from the accusative, but the vulgar Latin of the Peninsula in no instance presents two forms (subjective and objective case) of the same substantIve.
He did not know what grammar was, or the difference between a noun adjective and a noun substantive.
Most Labor MPs, including the whole front bench, then abstained on the substantive vote.
Instead, substantive amendments to the existing provisions are proposed.
The substantive areas of contribution are open, but may include climatology, biogeography, hydrology, or earth system processes.
First, while the situation has improved markedly in recent years, many countries lack substantive laws that specifically criminalize computer crimes.
This orientation is mainly related to the substantive form of a pure moral-practical rationality.
Aylesbury Vale District Council had acknowledged our letter, but had not yet sent a substantive reply.
At this point, tho, the argument becomes semantic rather than substantive.
The talks were detailed, constructive, and very substantive.
Brief extracts from a story are permitted provided they are not substantive.
As has been noted above there is little substantive evidence, only anecdotes about the odd individual case.
This was particularly true of complex cases where there were also substantive issues in dispute between householders or where legal proceedings were envisaged.
These links are included because these sites have unique, relevant and preferably substantive content relating to ethnicity and/or conflict in the country concerned.
Every decision is held in pending for four days before it becomes substantive.
This is the case because substantive change itself must always move beyond the merely tactical or pragmatic.
In .other cases the pronunciation can be ascertained only from the context, as in use, unvoiced for the substantive, voiced for the verb.
Post-positions, pa or be and ma, are required by the noun (substantive or adjective) that is to be singled out; po or bo (masc.) and mo (fern.) are used for distinction of gender or for emphasis.
In the order of the sentence the substantive precedes the adjective and the verb stands last; the object and the adverb precede the verb, and the genitive precedes the noun on which it depends - this contrasts with the order in the isolating Chinese, where the order is subject, verb, object.
This explanation of the term "Basilica" is more probable than the derivation of it from the name of the father of the emperor Leo, inasmuch as the Byzantine jurists of the Iith and 12th centuries ignored altogether the part which the emperor Basil had taken in initiating the legal reforms, which were completed by his son; besides the name of the father of the emperor Leo was written Oa6LXaos, from which substantive, according to the genius of;r? ??
Benzidine finds commercial application since its tetrazo compound couples readily with amino-sulphonic acids, phenol carboxylic acids, and phenol and naphthol-sulphonic acids to produce substantive cotton dyes (see Dyeing).
The reasons for the recent lack of substantive decline in stillbirth rates are unknown.
Do you have anything substantive to say (apart from confirming my arguments), or is this it?
Principal Investigator to discuss outcome with Center Lead and agree plan to complete substantive revision of the project (with support as agreed).
Friend the Foreign Secretary, about having a debate on foreign policy on a substantive motion.
A substantive reply to the complaint will be provided in due course.
The Adjudicator may rule on his own substantive jurisdiction, and as to the scope of the Adjudication.
The costs in respect of the original substantive hearing had still not been paid.
The substantive determination, which is the final judgment, always remains with the commissioners.
The talks are all important in themselves and substantive in nature.
Whereas courts scrutinize wiretap requests very carefully, authorizations for access to call setup information are routinely granted with no substantive review.
Using their easy interface, you can select a product type and review its labeling report card to gain a better understanding of how substantive its marketing claims are.
This can be waived by the court if the parents are making substantive progress or the caseworker believes that legal guardianship, but not adoption, is in the child's best interests.
But the introduction of the adjective " apologetic " and of the substantive " apologetics " is recent.
Other characteristic features are the use of the singular substantive after numerals, and adjectives of quantity, e.g.
Almost all his more substantive works, whether in verse or prose, are preceded by prefaces of one sort or another, which are models of his own light pungent causerie; and in a vast variety of nondescript pamphlets and writings he shows himself a perfect journalist.
The substantive occurs in an inscription of the Arvalian brotherhood (Marini, Gli Atti e Monumenti de' fratelli Arvali, p. 639),but is frequent only in ecclesiastical Latin.
The word is the English representative of the substantive common to Teutonic languages, as "dead" is of the adjective, and "die" of the verb; the ultimate origin is the pre-Teutonic verbal stem dau-; cf.
The close connexion of the two expressions, it is true, makes it probable that Mahomet only added the adjective Rahim to the substantive Rahman in order to strengthen the conception.
If God is true being, then sin can have no substantive existence; it cannot be said that God knows of sin, for to God knowing and being are one.
More weight was naturally attached to the opinion he had advocated in his early criticism of Kant as to the importance, if not the superiority, of the first edition of the Kritik; in the collected issue of Kant's works by Rosenkranz and Schubert in 1838 that edition was put as the substantive text, with supplementary exhibition of the differences of the second.
The word is used both as a substantive and as an adjective.