What's the difference between shallow and substance?

Shallow


Definition:

  • (superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
  • (superl.) Not deep in tone.
  • (superl.) Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
  • (n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
  • (n.) The rudd.
  • (v. t.) To make shallow.
  • (v. i.) To become shallow, as water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
  • (2) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
  • (3) Those with shallow roots are least likely to mourn change.
  • (4) In comparison gradients of transcript levels are more shallow in either lytically or persistently infected cultured cells, where the transcripts of the fifth MV gene are only about five times less abundant than those of the first.
  • (5) With commonly used experimental procedures, it is difficult to know whether a shallow psychometric function slope is a true reflection of the sensory process, or is a result of "averaging" a highly variable underlying function.
  • (6) The lesions varied in length from 0.5 to 2 cm and were very shallow, generally 1 mm deep.
  • (7) Further purification of the fraction by equilibrium centrifugation on shallow sucrose gradients reduces further the contaminating activities and results in a PA distribution that closely parallels the distribution of the membrane enzyme, 5'-nucleotidase.
  • (8) A case of acute angle-closure glaucoma precipitated by oculomotor nerve palsy in a patient with shallow anterior chambers is reported.
  • (9) From the shallow pool of talent to the lack of a definable playing style and questions over whether they can handle the step up from qualification to tournament football, this is now England.
  • (10) In Experiment 1, it was found that deviations of observed recognition failure from predictions of the Tulving-Wiseman function (Tulving & Wiseman, 1975) were produced by shallow, nonsemantic encoding.
  • (11) Recordings from single neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex of the monkey during force regulation between the fingers showed following characteristics: the existence of classes of discharge patterns similar to those in motor cortex, but with differences in their distribution, a late onset of activity changes in relation to force increase and a linear relation to force, but with shallow mean rate-force slope.
  • (12) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
  • (13) Angiotensin II induced a weak secretion of both adrenaline and noradrenaline, with a threshold of 10-100 pM and a shallow concentration-dependence up to 10 microM.
  • (14) The threshold of instantaneous change of stage 2 to shallower stages due to the sound of a passing truck was at the peak level at less than 55 dB (A), and that of stage REM to other stages at 55 to 60 dB (A).
  • (15) Maybe this is symptomatic of how the possibilities of social media have just made our friendships shallower, an economy of “likes” and thoughtless “adds”.
  • (16) In addition, it was a shallow event with a source that was only 11km below ground.
  • (17) Some of the stomata overlie a deep pit; others overlie a shallower pit in which the surface of another cell can be seen beneath the opening.
  • (18) Initially each primordium forms a shallow depression in the ectodermal surface.
  • (19) Under the scanning electron microscope, the clear dentine tubules in the resorption lacuna, the shallow, unclear resorption lacuna with deposition of the hard tissue and the various steps between them were observed.
  • (20) We found shallow serpiginous, longitudinal ulcerations in the descending colon at the first examination of a 17-year-old female patient with Crohn's disease.

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.