Essence vs. Emulsion

Essencenoun

The inherent nature of a thing or idea.

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(philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.

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Constituent substance.

Essencenoun

A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.

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A significant feature of something.

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The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.

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An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring.

Essencenoun

Fragrance, a perfume.

Essencenoun

The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

Essencenoun

The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.

Essencenoun

Constituent substance.

Essencenoun

A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.

Essencenoun

The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.

Essencenoun

Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.

Essenceverb

To perfume; to scent.

Essencenoun

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

Essencenoun

any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted

Essencenoun

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

Essencenoun

a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

Essencenoun

the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character

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a property or group of properties of something without which it would not exist or be what it is

Essencenoun

an extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter and used for flavouring or scent

Essence

Essence (Latin: essentia) is a polysemic term, used in philosophy and theology as a designation for the property or set of properties that make an entity 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 entity or substance has contingently, without which the substance can still retain its identity.

Emulsionnoun

A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.

Emulsionnoun

(chemistry) A colloid in which both phases are liquid.

Emulsionnoun

(photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.

Emulsionnoun

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

Emulsionnoun

(chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids;

Emulsionnoun

a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin

Emulsionnoun

a fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible

Emulsionnoun

a fine dispersion of one liquid or pureed food substance in another

Emulsionnoun

a type of paint used for walls, consisting of pigment bound in a synthetic resin which forms an emulsion with water

Emulsionnoun

a light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin.

Emulsionverb

paint with emulsion

Emulsion

An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally immiscible (unmixable or unblendable) owing to liquid-liquid phase separation. Emulsions are part of a more general class of two-phase systems of matter called colloids.