sub|sti|tute

sub|sti|tute
sub|sti|tute «SUHB stuh toot, -tyoot», noun, verb, -tut|ed, -tut|ing, adjective.
–n.
1. a thing used instead of another; person taking the place of another: »

Margarine is a common substitute for butter. A substitute taught us at school today.

 SYNONYM(S): expedient, alternate.
2. a person who took the place of a draftee in the army or navy, usually for pay, as in the American Civil War.
3. Grammar. a word or other linguistic form which under certain circumstances replaces any one of a class of other words or linguistic forms.
4. a small flag used in the flag signaling system of a ship to repeat the flag or penant flying above it; repeater. Substitutes make it unnecessary to carry extra sets of flags and pennants to show the same signal several times.
–v.t.
1. to put in place of another: »

We substituted brown sugar for molasses in these cookies.

2. to cause to take the place of: »

For real wit he is obliged to substitute vivacity (Oliver Goldsmith).

 SYNONYM(S): replace.
–v.i.
1. to take the place of another; be a substitute: »

The retired teacher substituted for our regular teacher, who was sick.

2. Chemistry. to replace one or more equivalents of an element or radical by a like number of equivalents of another.
–adj.
put in for or taking the place of another: »

a substitute teacher.

╂[< Latin substitūtus, past participle of substituere < sub- under + statuere establish < stāre stand]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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