What's the difference between salary and substance?

Salary


Definition:

  • (a.) Saline
  • (n.) The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
  • (v. t.) To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (2) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
  • (3) The investigators likely to have questions for Clarke, who remains on the payroll until January when he too is entitled to a payoff of a year’s salary.
  • (4) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
  • (5) The audit states: "The financial position of Zuma deteriorated over time, mainly as a result of the fact of the shortage in daily funding required to fund his lifestyle … Zuma's cash requirements by far exceeded his ability to fund such requirements from his salary."
  • (6) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
  • (7) Since leaving the group last April – taking home a reported £3.1m in salary, compensation and future share awards – the work has not stopped.
  • (8) The current CEO, the aptly named John Boss, took home $5.4m in salary and other compensation in 2015.
  • (9) Senior management salaries have remained frozen since 2008.
  • (10) One shareholder in RBS warned that the bank might now have little option but to increase salaries.
  • (11) In 2010 there were 2,525 City workers with in the €1m-plus pay bracket with average pay of €2.3m and with a much higher ratio, 611% of variable pay to fixed salary.
  • (12) A typical salary for a practice squad member is around US$100,000, significantly less than the Hayne earns in the NRL .
  • (13) Overall earnings growth was even lower, with the average UK salary increasing just 0.5% on 2010 levels once part-time workers are included.
  • (14) According to the BBC, as of last August, Klein's salary was £195,000 and Hadlow's £225,000.
  • (15) After specialization, there appeared to be a tendency for the less academically able students to take on full-time salaried jobs rather than to enter private practice.
  • (16) In 2007, his £450,000 LTIP, combined with basic salary and bonus, left him £1.2m better off - and with nearly double the then salary of the BBC's director general, Mark Thompson.
  • (17) Summiteers might be content with the higher rank and salary … and not really be motivated to summit again.
  • (18) Belinda Lester, from the employment law firm CKFT, agreed: "If they have a bad year, it's very difficult to cut back salaries"; the second big plus from the bank's point of view is "if a significant part of your remuneration is a bonus, these contracts will make it very clear that bonus is only payable if you're not leaving.
  • (19) Because the team is over the salary cap, keeping Basketball Zeppo will cost the Knicks an estimated $2.1 million .
  • (20) The incoming non-executive chairman of IAG, Iberia's Antonio Vazquez Romero, will receive a fee of €235,000 under a similar arrangment, on top of his annual salary of €645,000.

Substance


Definition:

  • (n.) That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes anything what it is; real or existing essence.
  • (n.) The most important element in any existence; the characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part; essential import; purport.
  • (n.) Body; matter; material of which a thing is made; hence, substantiality; solidity; firmness; as, the substance of which a garment is made; some textile fabrics have little substance.
  • (n.) Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
  • (n.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
  • (2) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
  • (3) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
  • (4) Intracellular localization of the labeled substance in the tumor tissue was examined autohistoradiographically.
  • (5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
  • (6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
  • (7) Serum pepsinogen 1, serum gastrin, ABO blood groups, secretor status of ABH blood group substances and behavioral factors were studied in 15 patients with duodenal ulcer and 61 their relatives affected and unaffected to duodenal ulcer.
  • (8) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
  • (9) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
  • (10) Substance P, a potent vasodilating peptide, seems to be released from trigeminal nerve endings in response to nervous stimulation and is involved in the transmission of painful stimuli within the periphery.
  • (11) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
  • (12) These results are discussed in the light of the mode of action of the substances used.
  • (13) Most cis AB sera have anti-B activity, essentially at 4 degrees C. In saliva A and H substances are found in normal amounts but B substance is only evidenced by inhibition of autologous cells agglutination.
  • (14) We have investigated some of the factors which affect the retention times of these substances in reversed-phase HPLC on columns of 5-micron octadecylsilyl silica.
  • (15) The data indicate that adult neurons with an intrinsic ability to regenerate axons can respond to substances with neurotrophic or neurite-promoting activities in tissue cultures.
  • (16) The authors describe the role played by these substances in the pathogenesis of inflammations, their importance in the regulation of intraocular pressure and in the development of cystoid macular oedema.
  • (17) They were more irregularly curved and consisted of various substances.
  • (18) We examined 10 life areas clustered around the general categories of "substance use," "social functioning," and "emotional and interpersonal functioning."
  • (19) In certain cases, the effects of these substances are enhanced, in others, they are inhibited by compounds that were isolated from natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis.
  • (20) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.