Essence

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The inherent nature of a thing or idea.

   “CHARITY is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands, ſays an old writer. Gifts and alms are the expreſſions, not the eſſence of this virtue.”

2. isim The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
3. isim Constituent substance.

   “For Spirits when they pleaſe / Can either Sex aſſume, or both ; ſo ſoft / And uncompounded is their Eſſence pure, / Not ti’d or manacl’d with joynt or limb, / Nor founded on the brittle ſtrength of bones, / Like cumbrous fleſh[…]”

4. isim A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.

   “He [Gottfried Wolfgang] had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until, like Swedenborg, he had an ideal world of his own around him.”

5. isim A significant feature of something.
6. isim The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through an extraction or distillation process.

   “essence of Jojoba”

7. isim An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring, or as a restorative.

   “vanilla essence”

8. isim Fragrance, a perfume.

   “Our humbler province is to tend the Fair, / Not a leſs pleaſing, tho’ leſs glorious care ; / To ſave the powder from too rude a gale, / Nor let th’ impriſon’d eſſences exhale[…]”

9. özel isim A female given name of African-American usage.