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an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
the Celtic languages of Britain are a substrate for English -
a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
the gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants - any stratum or layer lying underneath another
How To Use substratum In A Sentence
- In his hours of blackest thoughts he had never trembled before the idea of incurring scorn through his ruin, of seeing his friends desert him, of descending to the lowest depths, being lost in the social substratum. Luna Benamor
- Now, for an idea to exist in an unperceiving thing is a manifest contradiction, for to have an idea is all one as to perceive; that therefore wherein colour, figure, and the like qualities exist must perceive them; hence it is clear there can be no unthinking substance or substratum of those ideas. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
- Its determining reason is perhaps situated in "the suprasensible substratum of humanity. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
- Many other gastropods use mucus to attach to the substratum with varying degrees of adhesive strength.
- Hymenium usually below (or on the outer surface when the plant is spread over the substratum), warted, tuberculate, or with stout, spinous processes; or with interrupted vein-like folds in resupinate forms. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
- If the ‘spectacle’ of agony is a fundamental substratum of propaganda, so too is symbolic language with its lyricism and persuasive argument.
- Research in other cell lines has suggested that the mechanical properties of the substratum are important in the maintenance of cellular differentiation.
- There is a substratum of _kunkar_ throughout the whole of that part of the country, and to some mixture of this earth with the surface soil the fertility of the latter is ascribed: -- The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- Suhrawardi begins with a criticism and a rejection of the prevalent ˜extramissive™ and ˜intromissive™ theories of vision on account of the materialist implications of the imprinting of forms in the material substratum of the eye. Suhrawardi
- Research in other cell lines has suggested that the mechanical properties of the substratum are important in the maintenance of cellular differentiation.
