Noun, : The French word for 80, quatre-vingts (.    From Dictionary.com. 

More important is what kind of substrata you are built on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lake Chapala Geology] Reference

Problems of substrata languages enter at this stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

The Five Organs are the substrata of the "Five Virtues.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lunheng] Reference

Her voice, cold as arctic substrata, sent his brain reeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate]

They are derived from sandstone, quartzite, and shale substrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albany thickets] Reference

"You mean test the substrata, like I do for the Subway Authority?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metrognome and other Stories]

These substrata are employed to avoid the peeling off of the image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference

Saturate substrata with fungicide solution prepared (1 tsp Benlate per 2 li water).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 14] Reference

Again, the causal dependence of accidents on their substrata admits of no exception.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION] Reference

And couldn't such a religious foodstuff become a Catholic in that substrata of TV Life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [HABEMUS CHEESEBORGER!] Reference

But that is pennies on the dollar as you feed the substrata who can't or won't pay for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Member needs input.] Reference

Venango County's oily substrata has fueled and broken its share of dreams over the past 149 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Oil Prices Soar,] Reference

Oftentimes you get a certain couple of substrata or segments of society that participate as jurors.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2007] Reference

He knew not only what she had said, but all the substrata of meaning behind her simple declaration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference

But Blair's idea of Labour had nothing to do with the substrata of socialism embedded in Gordon Brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: He can still make us believe ? and then, pages later, feel sick] Reference

But if we scrape away the concrete of media truisms, we may reach substrata where some poets have dug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Solomon: Why Are We Still at War?] Reference

Van Wyk suggests that reduced competition on unfertile substrata allowed this relictual flora to persist.    From Wordnik.com.  [KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic] Reference

The old street substrata nevertheless remained in use in late antiquity to maintain the water infrastructure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Street Test Soundings Report 3] Reference

The materials were at hand; a special foam plastic is used as insulation from the chill of the lunar substrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hail to the Chief] Reference

The money would be shared with Gemalto, which is providing antennas and plastic substrata to protect the chips.    From Wordnik.com.  [NXP Hits The Ground Running] Reference

Belloc and Chesterton challenge the atomization of study into disciplines which are then divided into substrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chesterton, Belloc and the Academy] Reference

Of the 14 islands in the group, 9 are high dormant volcanoes while the remainder are atolls with volcanic substrata deep beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Islands tropical moist forests] Reference

Obstacles to rooting may be the proximity of a rocky substrata, compacted clay, dense layers of soil, a high level of ground water.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1. Forests] Reference

Cover the sprouted seeds with the substrata material, then place a polyethylene sheet on top of the trays to preserve seed moisture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 14] Reference

The fringing marshes, common around the bay, also have sulfihemist soils of varying thicknesses and overlaying a variety of substrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire] Reference

I have no doubt, however, that the whole of the substrata would have been found an uninterrupted continuation of the tertiary deposit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1] Reference

Plus it doesn't arbitrarily cut off the reduction before things get to the weird quantum substrata that so many avoid like the plague.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voice from the Middle Ground] Reference

But with increasing difficulty, because each time his choice of jobs was more limited, word inevitably percolating down to the lower substrata of the accounting world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

There's a very radical substrata that if you will just a few of the intelligence services have because there's so much, sort of obscuring the real radicals behind this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2009] Reference

But there's a whole substrata of administrative positions that are really important to bear in mind that a Vice President Palin, for example, could have a big influence on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cynthia Gorney: Parsing The Politics Of Abortion] Reference

I certainly have no good reason to disagree with Brain Greene or Stephen Hawking on the matter much less Bohr who even came to different conclusions on the quantum substrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists' Responses Solicited] Reference

The first subtle body/quantum monad forms out of the continuous unity of the subtle vital substrata simultaneously with the collapse of the first self-referential living cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death and the Quantum] Reference

Upon them, as upon substrata, I raise the edifice design'd in these Vistas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

Harris AK, Wild P, Stopak D (1980) Silicone rubber substrata: a new wrinkle in the study of cell locomotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

See then how far we have travelled from the scholastic theory of occult substrata underlying each group of phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Candid Examination of Theism] Reference