(a.) Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.
(a.) Depending on itself; independent.
(a.) Enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
(a.) Pertaining to, or constituting, the essential part or principles; as, the law substantive.
(n.) A noun or name; the part of speech which designates something that exists, or some object of thought, either material or immaterial; as, the words man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, are substantives.
(v. t.) To substantivize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alternatives for the selection of substantive clinical attributes, the overall structural format into which categories are organized, and construction procedures used in developing a psychopathologic taxonomy are elaborated, as are a number of criteria for evaluating the taxonomy's utility and efficacy.
(2) Further it is argued that there is a need to amalgamate the substantive, conceptual, and methodological facets of research.
(3) Among the implications of the less-than-impressive substantive results of the MWTA is the lesson that while a crisis can tilt the political balance in favor of regulatory legislation, it cannot as readily produce the consensus required to sustain that regulation at the levels promised in the legislation.
(4) Wicker's (this issue) article on substantive theorizing outlines an approach to theory and research that helps communicate the structure and process of doing research on a complex area.
(5) Our findings demonstrate the long lasting substantivity of doxycycline hydrochloride on periodontally diseased root surfaces and supports the concept of using root surfaces as a substrate for the deposition and slow release for local tetracycline delivery.
(6) Twenty-five years of persistent research at the Jena Institute of Bacterial Animal Diseases have yielded substantive results of relevance to general knowledge and veterinary practice in the following fields: Mycoplasma species in farm animals-isolation, demands on culturing substrate, and differentiation; Virulence testing; Development, production, and application of diagnostic preparations; Development to full application maturity of diagnostic techniques and concepts for control of several mycoplasmal infections of relevance in terms of economy.
(7) Redesigning the dream was identified as the integrative theme in the substantive theory that described how family members gradually modify their beliefs about organ transplantation and develop attitudes and beliefs to meet the challenge of living with continual unpredictability.
(8) These data suggest that although a shortened form of the HIT may be useful with aged persons, research exploring the substantive bases for creating a shortened version of the HIT is nevertheless necessary.
(9) Unfortunately, a large number of potential compounds are unsuitable for use in dentifrices because they lack "substantivity", produce undesirable side-effects, or are incompatible with toothpaste ingredients.
(10) Methodological and substantive recommendations for future research are made and a discussion of possible mechanisms is presented.
(11) When the influence of castration on adduct formation was investigated, adduct levels in kidneys of castrated females were higher than those in sham-operated females, but adduct levels in kidneys of the castrated male animals were not substantively different from those seen in sham-operated male controls.
(12) Based on a discrete-time hazard modeling approach, the results substantiate that the occupational task activities--substantive complexity and physical demands--are key elements of the work environment that are evaluated against nonwork alternatives.
(13) "I think when critics don't have a substantive alternative to offer they reach for the 'out of touch' criticism," he said.
(14) Findings revealed two substantive processes, the touching process and acquiring a touching style, neither of which has been previously reported.
(15) Quantitative information is the substantive input to decisions on whether oral and maxillofacial surgeons wish to go where they appear to be going, and if so why, and if not, why not?
(16) The Kinnaird report was very critical of defence acquisition processes up to that point, because approval had often been “sought before whole-of-life costs are well defined and, for many projects, prior to substantive engagement with industry.
(17) What came out instead was a substantive document, involving concrete steps towards defusing the crisis.
(18) But political will to uplift the lot of women substantively was lacking.
(19) But I reckon Laura Tingle is dead right on the substantive challenge - the statement just shows the country can no longer coast.
(20) The union's assistant general secretary Diana Holland said: "We will not be calling Easter strike action as we focus on substantive talks through Acas.
Veritable
Definition:
(a.) Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only was an alarming amount of fissile material going missing at the company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec), but it had been visited by a veritable who's-who of Israeli intelligence, including Rafael Eitan, described by the firm as an Israeli defence ministry "chemist", but, in fact, a top Mossad operative who went on to head Lakam.
(2) As far as the loss is concerned, the burned area may lead to a veritable "calorific haemorrhage", arising in cases where more than 30 to 40% of the body surface is affected.
(3) It sends "excess" military equipment to local police departments, and combined with the Homeland Security operation that provides grants to purchase such equipment, we've got a veritable firearms sale funnelling from Washington on down to the local station house.
(4) Attentive listening, reassurance and non-submission of the esteem to the performance of expression should lead to a veritable reassessment of the challenges of expression.
(5) In his final congressional testimony before retiring next week, Mullen said success in Afghanistan is threatened by the Pakistani government's support for the Haqqani network of militants, which he called a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence agency.
(6) The results that have been obtained in the experimental appeared to be negatively but veritably correlated with the age of examined animals.
(7) Barbara Beese, Julia Campbell, Verite Reily Collins, John Furse, Jim Grealy, Merril Hammer, Karl Hevera, Ian Irvine, Tina Mackenzie, Craig Nicol, John Ralph, Linda Robinson, Teresa Schaefer, Heinz Schumi, Margaret Spector, Alexandra Veres, Martin Woodford 38 Degrees Chelsea and Fulham Group • Sustainability and transformation plans are being drawn up in conditions of secrecy imposed by NHS England – as its North Midlands director of commissioning operations, Wendy Saviour, told a recent meeting of Shropshire clinical commissioning group: “STPs are not meant to be published at all.
(8) The values as obtained in the experiment appeared negatively but veritably correlated with ages of the animals.
(9) Despite the clear scientific consensus, a veritable brigade of self-proclaimed, underinformed armchair experts lurk on comment threads the world over, eager to pour scorn on climate science.
(10) The plotting emerged from my own skipping, stumbling life as a just-out gay man in San Francisco, that veritable asparagus garden of carnal delights.
(11) "What's at stake in Yemen is not just the risk that the country's unity could disintegrate, but the very real danger that Islamist extremists, like al-Qaida, will take advantage of Yemen's divisions to turn it into a veritable sanctuary for international terrorists," said Harry Sterling, a former Canadian diplomat, who worked in Yemen.
(12) 5-In the last phase, a veritable desquamation of the pneumocytes then of the endothelial cells is produced which is very frequently lethal.
(13) For a man once widely dismissed as a loser and a lightweight, it was a veritable transformation.
(14) Every biological woman who has become pregnant, regardless of title or claim to the throne, will have to face the potential of piles, fat ankles, leaky boobs and a veritable daily lottery as to how our bowels will behave.
(15) The past several years have been characterized by a veritable explosion of knowledge concerning the globin structure genes, and the structure, transcription, processing and function of globin mRNA in erythroid cells.
(16) In his book 'Paragranum' he waves the ethics as a virtue into his succint concept of a 'new topical and veritable medical science'.
(17) Meanwhile, Prensa Latina in Cuba ( plenglish.com ) led its site with "Fidel Castro: The empire has created a veritable killing machine" - the empire being the US under George Bush.
(18) Abnormalities associated with trace elements have not received much attention from clinicians in the past; however, in the past few years there has been a veritable explosion of knowledge about trace elements which are associated with abnormalities in experimental animals as well as in humans.
(19) The superficial temporal artery and its branches run within the fascia which acts as a veritable vessel carrying sheet.
(20) The two albums that followed, I See A Darkness and Ease Down The Road, are his best, and most consistent, collections - the former dark and wintry; the latter, in contrast, is a veritable paean to the carnal joys of infidelity.