Look up: essence

1. Essence
   The intrinsic or indispensable properties that serve to characterize or identify something.
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2. essence
   [n] - any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted
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3. ESSENCE
   Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics [Johns Hopkins University]
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4. essence
   In philosophy, all that makes a thing what it is and is indispensable to the thing. Philosophers have often distinguished nominal essences from real essences. A nominal essence is a group of terms...
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5. essence
   any substance added to a food to give it a particular taste; flavouring. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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6. Essence
   Es'sence noun [ French essence , Latin essentia , formed as if from a present participle of esse to be. See Is , and confer Entity .] 1. The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, an...
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7. Essence
   Es'sence transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Essenced ; present participle & verbal noun Essencing .] To perfume; to scent. ' Essenced fops.' Addison.
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8. essence
   1. The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence. ... 2. The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguis...
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9. essence
   noun any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted
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10. Essence
    • (v. t.) To perfume; to scent. • (n.) Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume. • (n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence. • (n.) The predominant...
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11. essence
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12. Essence
    Essence is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Essence, Scent` Where is it used? The name Essence is mainly used In English. Essence appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 930.. 1998 was a `top year` for the name Essence. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that year it ra...
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13. essence
    essence 1. The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence. 2. The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (disti...
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14. essence
    essence, in philosophy, the nature of a thing. Aristotle maintained that there is a distinction between the form of a thing—its intelligible, verbally formulable character—and the essence of a thing, i.e., what it is in itself, which is not common to anything else. The essence of a thing...
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15. Essence
    (Lat. essentia, fr. essens, participle of esse, to be) The being or power of a thing; necessary internal relation or function. The Greek philosophers identified essence and substance in the term, ousia. In classic Latin essence was the idea or law of a thing. But in scholastic philosophy the distinc...
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16. Essence
    , (Scholastic): The essence of a thing is its nature considered independently of its existence. Also non-existent things and those which cannot exist at all have a proper essence. The definition details all properties making up the essence. It is doubtful whether we can give of a ny thing a truly es...
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17. Essence
    In cooking, an essence is a flavouring of meat and vegetables extracted by simmering them in wine and reducing the liquid.
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18. essence
    Type: Term Pronunciation: es′ens Definitions: 1. The true characteristic or substance of a body. 2. An element. 3. A fluidextract. 4. An alcoholic solution, or spirit, of the volatile oil of a plant. 5. Any volatile substance responsible for odor or taste of the organism (usually a plant) prod...
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19. Essence
    In philosophy, `essence` is the attribute or set of attributes that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its identity. Essence is contrasted with accident: a property that the object or substance has contingently, without whi...
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20. Essence
    (magazine) `Essence` is a monthly magazine for African-American women between the ages of 18 and 49. The magazine covers fashion, lifestyle and beauty with an intimate girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone. History: The magazine was founded in 1968 by Edward Lewis, Clarence O. Smith, Cecil Hol...
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21. Essence
    (album) Name = Essence | Type = Album | Artist = Lucinda Williams | Cover = Essence (album).jpg| Released = June 5, 2001 | Recorded = | Genre = Americana, Alternative country | Length = 50:58 | Label = Lost Highway | Producer = Bo Ramsey<br/>Tom Tucker<br/>Lucinda Williams | Reviews = L...
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