substrate

CEFRB2

/ˈsʌbˌstɹeɪt/

noun

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Examples

Pre-Greek is a substrate language hypothesized to explain certain Greek words of non-Indo-European origin.
Ziri bought some substrate for his tortoise's enclosure.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

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Extra meanings

The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
An underlying layer; a substratum.
A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.

In context

Aramaic features an Akkadian substrate.
The rock surface of a rockpool is the substrate for a sessile organism such as a limpet.
The substrate of an aquarium can affect the water's acidity.

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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. Wasserman, Thomas R. Zentall, Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence, →ISBN, page 520
Amphisteginids and peneroplids were among the few taxa found in the bay environments, probably due to their preferences for phytal substrates and tolerance to moderate levels of eutrophication.
2015 December 29, “Spatial Patterns in the Distribution, Diversity and Abundance of Benthic Foraminifera around Moorea (Society Archipelago, French Polynesia)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, part I

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Anglicization of substratum.