the nub of the matter
41nitty-gritty — noun, informal now let s get to the nitty gritty of managing your own business Syn: basics, essentials, fundamentals, substance, quintessence, heart of the matter; nub, crux, gist, meat, kernel, marrow; informal brass tacks, bottom line; nuts and …
42soul — n 1. spirit, animating principle, vital spirit, pneuma, breath of life, anima, life; consciousness, psyche, mind, intellect, Gk. Philos. nous; reason, understanding, intelligence; self, ego, inner self, true being. 2. ghost, wraith, disembodied… …
43core — n center, heart, nucleus, germ, kernel, seed, nut; marrow, pith, gist, substance, essence, sum and substance, essential part, inner core, quintessence, heart of the matter, Inf. nub, Inf. nitty gritty …
44kernel — n 1. grain, seed, stone, Embryol. germ, nut, nutlet, nutmeat, meat. 2. nucleus, core, center, soul, heart, vital part; marrow, pith, gist, substance, essence, sum and substance, essential part, quiddity, fundamental, Law. gravamen; inner core,… …
45nitty-gritty — n crux, gist, Inf. nub, meat, substance, essence, quintessence, sum and substance, essential part, marrow, pith, heart of the matter; core, inner core, heart, center, nucleus, kernel; base, bottom, root …
46nubby — nub ► NOUN 1) (the nub) the crux or central point of a matter. 2) a small lump or protuberance. DERIVATIVES nubby adjective. ORIGIN apparently from dialect knub protuberance , from Low German …
47List of Saturday Night Live commercials — The following is a partial list of Saturday Night Live commercial parodies. On Saturday Night Live ( SNL ), a parody advertisement is commonly shown after the host s opening monologue. Fast food, beer, feminine hygiene products, toys, and… …
48Guinness share-trading fraud — The Guinness share trading fraud was a famous British business scandal of the 1980s. It involved an attempt to manipulate the stock market on a massive scale to inflate the price of Guinness shares and thereby assist a £2.7 billion take over bid… …
49substance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. material (see substance); subject [matter], meaning, gist; wealth (see money). II Material existence Nouns 1. substance, matter; corpus, frame, protoplasm, principle; person, thing, object, article; …
50isotope — isotopic /uy seuh top ik/, adj. isotopically, adv. /uy seuh tohp /, n. Chem. any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in… …
