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{
"term": "substance",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a type of solid, liquid or gas that has particular qualities",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a sticky substance"
},
{
"text": "a chemical/radioactive/hazardous substance"
},
{
"text": "Some frogs produce **toxic substances** in their skin."
},
{
"text": "Exercise of this kind improves the balance of fatty substances in the bloodstream."
},
{
"text": "Psychoactive drugs are chemical substances that act on the brain."
},
{
"text": "a bag full of some unknown substance"
},
{
"text": "a natural substance found in the body of animals"
},
{
"text": "foreign substances that contaminated the experiments"
}
],
"topics": ["Physics and chemistry"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["addictive", "cancer-causing", "carcinogenic"],
"verb + substance": ["use", "abuse", "contain"],
"substance + noun": ["use", "abuse"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a drug, especially an illegal one",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**illegal/controlled substances**"
},
{
"text": "He was disqualified from competing after testing positive to a **banned substance**."
},
{
"text": "Adolescent **substance use** remains high in the United States."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the quality of being based on facts or the truth",
"sensetop": "without substance",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The commission's report **gives substance to** these allegations."
},
{
"text": "There is some substance in what he says."
},
{
"text": "It was malicious gossip, completely without substance.",
"contextForm": "without substance"
},
{
"text": "His disappearance has given added substance to the argument that he stole the money."
},
{
"text": "The image of him that the media have presented has no substance."
},
{
"text": "The letters lent substance to the claims."
},
{
"text": "Their allegations were without substance."
},
{
"text": "There was little substance to his claims."
},
{
"text": "There's no substance in the story."
},
{
"text": "The party's manifesto is good on style but lacks real substance."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["real", "added"],
"verb + substance": ["have", "add", "give something"],
"preposition": ["in substance", "of substance", "with substance"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the most important or main part of something",
"sensetop": "the substance of somethingin substance",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Love and guilt form the substance of his new book.",
"contextForm": "the substance of something"
},
{
"text": "The real substance of the report was in the third part."
},
{
"text": "I agreed with what she said in substance, though not with every detail.",
"contextForm": "in substance"
},
{
"text": "There seems to be no difference in substance between the two procedures."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["real", "added"],
"verb + substance": ["have", "add", "give something"],
"preposition": ["in substance", "of substance", "with substance"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "importance",
"sensetop": "of substance",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "matters of substance",
"contextForm": "of substance"
},
{
"text": "Nothing of any substance was achieved in the meeting."
},
{
"text": "He found it difficult to say much of substance."
},
{
"text": "No one raised any matters of substance."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["real", "added"],
"verb + substance": ["have", "add", "give something"],
"preposition": ["in substance", "of substance", "with substance"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a rich and powerful man or woman",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsʌbstəns/",
"audio": "su/substance/substance__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsʌbstəns/",
"audio": "su/substance/substance__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting the essential nature of something): from Old French, from Latin substantia ‘being, essence’, from substant- ‘standing firm’, from the verb substare."
}