<B>subsidized adoption,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a government program that provides financial assistance to persons who adopt children. <BR> <I>Ex. Subsidized adoption is a way to increase the number of available adoptive homes (Frances A. Mullen).</I> </DL>
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<B>subsidizer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or group that subsidizes. </DL>
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<B>subsidy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a grant or contribution of money, especially one made by a government in support of an undertaking or the upkeep of a thing. <BR> <I>Ex. a subsidy for education. Under the price-support program, the farmer is given a subsidy to encourage him to produce surpluses (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>money formerly granted to the sovereign by the British Parliament to meet special needs. </DL>
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<B>sub silentio,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) in silence; without a remark being made; without notice being taken. <BR> <I>Ex. Sometimes passing a thing sub silentio is evidence of consent (John Bouvier).</I> </DL>
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<B>subsist, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to keep alive; live. <BR> <I>Ex. People in the far north subsist chiefly on fish and meat.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to continue to be; exist. <BR> <I>Ex. Many superstitions still subsist. A club cannot subsist without members.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Philosophy.) <DD><B> a. </B>to stand as fact or truth; hold true. <DD><B> b. </B>to be logically necessary, probable, or conceivable. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) to continue in a condition or position; remain as such. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to provide for; feed; support. </DL>
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<B>subsistence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the condition or fact of keeping alive; living. <BR> <I>Ex. Selling papers was the poor old man's only means of subsistence.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a means of keeping alive; livelihood. <BR> <I>Ex. The sea provides a subsistence for fishermen.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>continued existence; continuance. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Philosophy.) <DD><B> a. </B>the individualizing of substance, especially as a particular rational (human) being standing apart from all others but possessing certain rights, powers, and functions in common with all others of the same type. <DD><B> b. </B>the condition of subsisting. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Obsolete.) the condition or quality of inhering or residing (in something). </DL>
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<B>subsistence farming,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> farming that produces only the minimum amount of food necessary to sustain the farmer and his family, with little or no surplus. <BR> <I>Ex. A settled community now enjoys a cash crop instead of the insecurity of crude subsistence farming (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
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<B>subsistent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> existing of or by itself; existing; subsisting. </DL>
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<B>subsoil, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the layer of earth that lies just under the surface soil. <BR> <I>Ex. Below this layer is a gradual transition to a yellowish stratum of clay ... called subsoil (Fred W. Emerson).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to plow, till, or dig so as to cut into the subsoil. noun <B>subsoiler.</B> </DL>
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<B>subsolar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>directly underneath the sun; having the sun in the zenith. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) terrestrial; mundane. <DD><B> 3. </B>between the tropics. </DL>
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<B>subsonic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with or designed for use at a speed less than the speed of sound (about 1,100 feet or 335 meters per second in air). <DD><B> 2. </B>that moves at a speed slower than the speed of sound. <BR> <I>Ex. a subsonic airplane.</I> adv. <B>subsonically.</B> </DL>
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<B>subspace, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) a subset of a space. </DL>
<A NAME="subspecialize">
<B>subspecialize, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> topursue a subspecialty. <BR> <I>Ex. to subspecialize in transplant surgery or child psychology.</I> noun <B>subspecialist.</B> noun <B>subspecialization.</B> </DL>
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<B>subspecialty, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a subdivision of a branch of science or research; specialty within a specialty. <BR> <I>Ex. There is no subspecialty of social or community psychiatry [in Russia] because every psychiatrist works in an overall social effort as public health officer (Science News).</I> </DL>
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<B>sub specie aeternitatis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) under the form of eternity; in its essential form or character. </DL>
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<B>subspecies, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Biology.) a group of related plants or animals ranking below a species. <DD><B> 2. </B>a subdivision of a species. <BR> <I>Ex. We include within the Mongoloid subspecies three major races; the Asiatic Mongoloid, the Indonesian-Malay, and the American Indian (Beals and Hoijer).</I> </DL>
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<B>subspecific, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or like a subspecies. adv. <B>subspecifically.</B> </DL>
<B>substage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a subdivision of a stage. <BR> <I>Ex. The specimens come from different substages of the same [geological] formation (Charles Darwin).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a device beneath the ordinary stage of a compound microscope to support mirrors and other accessories. </DL>
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<B>substance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>what a thing consists of; matter; material. <BR> <I>Ex. Ice and water consist of the same substance in different forms. The woolgray air is all about him like a living substance (Thomas Wolfe).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the real, main, or important part of anything; essence. <BR> <I>Ex. The substance of an education is its effect on your life, not just learning lessons.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the real meaning; gist. <BR> <I>Ex. Give the substance of the speech in your own words.</I> (SYN) purport. <DD><B> 4. </B>solid quality; body. <BR> <I>Ex. Pea soup has more substance than water.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>wealth; property; possessions. <BR> <I>Ex. a man of substance. He spent his substance in bookstores.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a particular kind of matter; stuff. <BR> <I>Ex. a chemical substance. The little pond is covered with a green substance. This variety of substances, which compose the internal parts of our globe (Oliver Goldsmith).</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Philosophy.) <DD><B> a. </B>something that underlies all phenomena, and in which accidents or attributes inhere; something that receives modifications and is not itself a mode. <DD><B> b. </B>something that subsists by itself; separate or distinct thing. <BR><I>expr. <B>in substance,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>essentially; substantially; mainly. </I> <I>Ex. In substance, obviously, this is a moving story (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>really; actually. <BR> <I>Ex. We know that the monarchy did not survive the hierarchy, no, not even in appearance, for many months; in substance, not for a single hour (Edmund Burke).</I> </DL>
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<B>substanceless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without substance; unsubstantial. </DL>
<A NAME="substandard">
<B>substandard, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>below standard. <BR> <I>Ex. Basically furnished quarters (may for a time be substandard but adequate) at low rentals (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>not conforming to the accepted standards of speech or writing. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Law, U.S.) below the standard required by law and not so labeled. </DL>
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<B>substantial, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>having substance; real; actual. <BR> <I>Ex. People and things are substantial; dreams and ghosts are not.</I> (SYN) material. <DD><B> 2. </B>strong; firm; solid. <BR> <I>Ex. That house is substantial enough to last a hundred years.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>large; important; ample. <BR> <I>Ex. a substantial profit. By hard study he made a substantial improvement in arithmetic.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>providing ample or abundant nourishment. <BR> <I>Ex. Eat a substantial breakfast.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>in the main; for the most part; in essentials. <BR> <I>Ex. The stories told by the two boys were in substantial agreement.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>well-to-do; wealthy; influential. <BR> <I>Ex. He ... introduced us to a number of substantial-looking middle-aged civilians (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>of real or solid worth or value; weighty; sound. <BR> <I>Ex. substantial criticism, substantial evidence. The substantial comforts of a good coal fire (Mary R. Mitford).</I> <DD><B> 8a. </B>being a substance; being real. <DD><B> b. </B>essential; material. <BR> <I>Ex. the substantial truth of the story (John Hay).</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>(Philosophy.) of, having to do with, or inherent in substance, rather than accident. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>substantials,</B> something substantial. <BR> <I>Ex. His judgment in substantials, like that of Johnson, is always worth having (James Russell Lowell).</I> noun <B>substantialness.</B> </DL>
