subsidiary | (noun) a company that is completely controlled by another company | Synonyms: subsidiary company |
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(noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, underling |
subsiding | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | Synonyms: settling, subsidence |
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subsidisation | (noun) the act of providing a subsidy | Synonyms: grant, subsidization |
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(noun) money (or other benefits) obtained as a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidization |
subsidiser | (noun) someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidizer |
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subsidization | (noun) the act of providing a subsidy | Synonyms: grant, subsidisation |
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(noun) money (or other benefits) obtained as a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidisation |
subsidizer | (noun) someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidiser |
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subsidy | (noun) a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public | - |
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subsistence | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | - |
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(noun) the state of existing in reality; having substance | - |
(noun) a means of surviving | - |
subsister | (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: survivor |
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subsoil | (noun) the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock | Synonyms: undersoil |
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subspace | (noun) a space that is contained within another space | - |
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subspecies | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species | Synonyms: race |
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substance | (noun) the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | - |
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(noun) a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties | - |
(noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, consistency |
(noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: meaning |
(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, sum |
(noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, message, subject matter |
(noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: means |
(noun) material of a particular kind or constitution | - |
substantiality | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantialness |
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substantialness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantiality |
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substantiation | (noun) the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something | Synonyms: proof, validation |
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(noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, verification |
substantive | (noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | - |
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substation | (noun) a subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network | - |
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substitutability | (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: commutability, replaceability |
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substitute | (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: replacement |
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(noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in |
(noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: reserve, second-stringer |
substituting | (noun) working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence | Synonyms: subbing |
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substitution | (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: commutation, exchange |
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(noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, switch, transposition |
substrate | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substratum |
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(noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substratum |
(noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substratum |
(noun) the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment | - |
substratum | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substrate |
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(noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substrate |
(noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substrate |
substring | (noun) a string that is part of a longer string | - |
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substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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(noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
subsumption | (noun) incorporating something under a more general category | - |
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(noun) the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) | Synonyms: minor premise, minor premiss |
subsystem | (noun) a system that is part of some larger system | - |
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subterfuge | (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: blind |
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subthalamus | (noun) the ventral part of the thalamus | - |
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subtilin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic (similar to bacitracin) obtained from a soil bacterium | - |
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subtitle | (noun) secondary or explanatory title | - |
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(noun) translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen | Synonyms: caption |
subtlety | (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: niceness |
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(noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, shade |
subtonic | (noun) (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale | Synonyms: leading tone |
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subtopia | (noun) monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings | - |
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subtotal | (noun) the sum of part of a group of numbers | - |
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subtracter | (noun) a machine that subtracts numbers | - |
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(noun) a person who subtracts numbers | - |
subtraction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: deduction |
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(noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: minus |
subtractor | (noun) An electronic logic circuit for calculating the difference between two binary numbers. | - |
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subtrahend | (noun) the number to be subtracted from the minuend | - |
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subtreasury | (noun) a subordinate treasury or place of deposit | - |
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subtropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: semitropics |
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subtweeting | (noun) the act of tweeting without tagging a user so that they will not see the post | - |
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subunit | (noun) a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional monetary unit |
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suburb | (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburban area, suburbia |
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suburbanite | (noun) a resident of a suburb | - |
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suburbia | (noun) suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture | - |
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(noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburb, suburban area |
subvention | (noun) the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort | - |
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(noun) grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution | - |
subversion | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: corruption |
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(noun) the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government | Synonyms: subversive activity |
subversive | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter |
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subversiveness | (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: traitorousness, treason |
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subverter | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive |
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subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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subvocalizer | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocaliser |
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subway | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway system, tube, underground |
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(noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: underpass |
subwoofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that is designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies | - |
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transubstantiation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transmutation |
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(noun) the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist | - |