Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SUBSTRATE

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Definitions of SUBSTRATE

1. An underlying layer; a substratum.
2. The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
3. Having very slight furrows.
4. (biochemistry) A substance acted upon, as by an enzyme.
5. (biology) A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.
6. (linguistics) A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
7. (plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
8. (construction) A surface to which a substance adheres.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To strew or lay under.

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Examples of Using SUBSTRATE in a Sentence

• In typical CVD, the wafer (substrate) is exposed to one or more volatile precursors, which react and/or decompose on the substrate surface to produce the desired deposit.
• An eruption that ejects large volumes of magma over a short period of time can cause significant detriment to the structural integrity of such a chamber, greatly diminishing its capacity to support its own roof, and any substrate or rock resting above.
• A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate.
• The process begins with a photosensitive material, called a photoresist, being applied to the substrate.
• Phosphorylation usually results in a functional change of the target protein (substrate) by changing enzyme activity, cellular location, or association with other proteins.
• A protein phosphatase is a phosphatase enzyme that removes a phosphate group from the phosphorylated amino acid residue of its substrate protein.
• Restriction enzymes are commonly classified into five types, which differ in their structure and whether they cut their DNA substrate at their recognition site, or if the recognition and cleavage sites are separate from one another.
• The addition of ubiquitin to a substrate protein is called ubiquitylation (or ubiquitination or ubiquitinylation).
• The encoding material sits atop a thicker substrate (usually polycarbonate) that makes up the bulk of the disc and forms a dust defocusing layer.
• Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.
• Electroplating, also known as electrochemical deposition or electrodeposition, is a process for producing a metal coating on a solid substrate through the reduction of cations of that metal by means of a direct electric current.
• This process is known as phosphorylation, where the high-energy ATP molecule donates a phosphate group to the substrate molecule.
• Cementation (biology), the process whereby some sessile bivalve mollusks (and some other shelled invertebrates) attach themselves permanently to a hard substrate.
• Gait is the pattern of movement of the limbs of animals, including humans, during locomotion over a solid substrate.
• Some rotifers are free swimming and truly planktonic, others move by inchworming along a substrate, and some are sessile, living inside tubes or gelatinous holdfasts that are attached to a substrate.
• It takes the form of a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers: each of the conductive layers is designed with a pattern of traces, planes and other features (similar to wires on a flat surface) etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto or between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate.
• The ectosymbiotic species, or ectosymbiont, is generally an immobile (or sessile) organism existing off of biotic substrate through mutualism, commensalism, or parasitism.
• All genomes sequenced to date encode enzymes that use coenzyme A as a substrate, and around 4% of cellular enzymes use it (or a thioester) as a substrate.
• Hypoxanthine is a necessary additive in certain cells, bacteria, and parasite cultures as a substrate and nitrogen source.
• Methylation, in the chemical sciences, is the addition of a methyl group on a substrate, or the substitution of an atom (or group) by a methyl group.

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