Substitute
['sʌbstɪtjuːt] or ['sʌbstɪtut]
Definition
(noun.) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another.
(noun.) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced.
(verb.) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; 'the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt'; 'substitute regular milk with fat-free milk'; 'synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning'.
(verb.) be a substitute; 'The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague'; 'The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet'.
(verb.) act as a substitute; 'She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold'.
Checker: Virgil--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else
(n.) a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.
(n.) To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Exchange, commute, put in the place of.
n. [1]. Proxy, lieutenant, agent, deputy, LOCUM TENENS.[2]. Makeshift, temporary expedient.
Typist: Sam
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Exchange, commute, represent, replace, supply, depute
ANT:Retain, fix, continue, perpetuate, stabilitate, establish
Edited by Enrico
Definition
v.t. to put in place of another.—n. one who or that which is put in place of another.—adj. put instead of another.—n. Substitū′tion act of substituting or putting in place of another: (Shak.) the office of a substitute: the use of one word for another syllepsis: (alg.) the replacing one quantity by another which is equal to it but differently expressed: (chem.) the replacement of one or more equivalents of a body by a like number of equivalents of another.—adjs. Substitū′tional Substitū′tionary.—adv. Substitū′tionally.—adj. Sub′stitūtive.
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Examples
- A substitute for the slow animal, horse, and for the dangerous, noisy steam horse and its lumbering locomotive and train, was hailed with delight. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I can substitute some other plans. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It occupies a particular place in life; it serves its own end, which cannot be supplied by a substitute. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A very good substitute for it, at all events,' replied Mr. Pickwick, laughing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The Lord High Chancellor, at his best, appeared so poor a substitute for the love and pride of parents. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Field, John Burry--and remains in extensive use as an appliance for which no substitute or competitor has been found. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For animal fibers it is therefore necessary to discard chlorine as a bleaching agent, and to substitute a substance which will have a less disastrous action upon the fibers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The room had once been lighted by a small side window, but this had been bricked up, and a lantern skylight was now substituted for it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Two-fifths part of dextrine (or the same quantity of gelatine) may be substituted for the 2 parts of starch. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The Polish language was banned, and the Greek Orthodox church was substituted for the Roman Catholic as the State religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Should contagious sickness exist in any of the ports named in the program, such ports will be passed, and others of interest substituted. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This brings us to the gist of the ingenious way in which Edison substituted the action of electrochemical decomposition for that of the electromagnet to operate a relay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The standard Edison meter practice was to remove the cells once a month to the meter-room of the central-station company for examination, another set being substituted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Dutch also had substituted cylinders armed with blades in place of stampers and used their windmills to run them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The military feelings, says James, are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The principal silage crop is corn, but in different parts of the country there are other crops which can be used to great advantage as substitutes for corn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It substitutes the changing expediency of the moment for devotion to unswerving moral law. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Many substitutes in the form of compositions of various ingredients have been devised and patented, but no real substitute for nature’s product has yet been found. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1858 the machine was further improved by substituting an automatic rake for the raker on the machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This inconvenience was experienced in the early progress of Steam Navigation, and many attempts were made to overcome it, by substituting a different kind of propeller. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- These consisted in increasing the fines, and, in some cases, substituting death for fines. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This instrument can also be used to indicate minute changes of moisture in the air by substituting a strip of gelatine in place of the vulcanite. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I answer this objection by substituting a juster idea of penetration. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- That discreet damsel was attired as usual, except that she was now engaged in substituting for her green kid gloves a pair of white. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mr. Callahan removed the two dials, and, substituting type wheels, turned the movements face to face, so that each type wheel could imprint its characters upon a paper tape in two lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Sallust