substrate

Having very slight furrows.

Adjective

  1. Having very slight furrows.

Origin

Anglicization of substratum.

Forms

more substrate most substrate

Noun

  1. An underlying layer; a substratum.
  2. The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
    • The substrate of an aquarium can affect the water's acidity.
    • Stream substrate affects fish longevity.
  3. A substance acted upon, as by an enzyme.
  4. A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.
    • The rock surface of a rockpool is the substrate for a sessile organism such as a limpet.
    • This definition [of "tool"] is not simple, but contains several elements. The tool must not be part of the animal's body (a beak is not a tool); the user must manipulate the tool in some way for it to realise its...
    • Detach/subtract [tasks involve] Severing a fixed attachment between environmental objects (or the substrate) or removing object(s) from another unattached object, so the latter is a more useful tool. - 2006, Edward A....
  5. A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.

    Antonyms: superstrate

  6. A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
  7. A surface to which a substance adheres.

Forms

substrates

Synonyms

underlayer substratum

Derived

bisubstrate cosubstrate heterosubstrate monosubstrate multisubstrate nanosubstrate nonsubstrate phosphosubstrate pseudosubstrate substratal substratism substratist substratomaniac substratophile substratophilia substratophobe substratophobia

Verb

  1. To strew or lay under.
    • The melted glass being supported by the substrated sand. - 1663, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire:...

Forms

substrates substrating substrated