Substrate vs. Product

Substratenoun

(biochemistry) What an enzyme acts upon.

Productnoun

A commodity offered for sale.

‘That store offers a variety of products.’; ‘We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.’;

Substratenoun

(biology) A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.

‘The rock surface of a rockpool is the substrate for a sessile organism such as a limpet.’;

Productnoun

Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.

‘Wash excess product out of your hair.’;

Substratenoun

An underlying layer; a substratum.

Productnoun

Anything that is produced; a result.

‘The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.’;

Substratenoun

(linguistics) A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.

Productnoun

The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.

‘They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.’;

Substratenoun

(plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.

Productnoun

A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.

‘Skill is the product of hours of practice.’; ‘His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.’;

Substratenoun

(construction) A surface to which a substance adheres.

Productnoun

(chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.

‘This is a product of lime and nitric acid.’;

Substratenoun

The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.

‘The substrate of an aquarium can affect the water's acidity.’; ‘Stream substrate affects fish longevity.’;

Productnoun

(arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.

‘The product of 2 and 3 is 6.’; ‘The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.’;

Substrateverb

To strew or lay under.

Productnoun

(mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.

Substrateadjective

Having very slight furrows.

Productnoun

Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.

Substratenoun

A substratum.

Productnoun

Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

‘I got some product here – you buying?’;

Substrateadjective

Having very slight furrows.

Productnoun

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.

‘There are the productOf those ill-mated marriages.’; ‘These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.’;

Substrateverb

To strew or lay under anything.

‘The melted glass being supported by the substrated sand.’;

Productnoun

The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.

Substratenoun

the substance acted upon by an enzyme or ferment

Productverb

To produce; to bring forward.

Substratenoun

any stratum lying underneath another

Productverb

To lengthen out; to extend.

‘He that doth much . . . products his mortality.’;

Productverb

To produce; to make.

Productnoun

commodities offered for sale;

‘good business depends on having good merchandise’; ‘that store offers a variety of products’;

Productnoun

an artifact that has been created by someone or some process;

‘they improve their product every year’; ‘they export most of their agricultural production’;

Productnoun

a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances;

‘skill is the product of hours of practice’; ‘his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue’;

Productnoun

a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction;

‘a product of lime and nitric acid’;

Productnoun

a quantity obtained by multiplication;

‘the product of 2 and 3 is 6’;

Productnoun

the set of elements common to two or more sets;

‘the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things’;