Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Exchanged; put in the place of another.
- adjective (Chem.) Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced.
- adjective (Law) an executor appointed to act in place of one removed or resigned.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
substitute .
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Examples
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Apparently it's hard to separate the spurious from the serious with her, she missed the wedding of two friends and, as a belated gift, prepared for them a doctored version of Mark Bittman's eminently useful How to Cook Everything, with her name substituted wherever possible as author, and a new, foul-mouthed "Acknowledgments" section pasted over the existing one.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2010
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Apparently it's hard to separate the spurious from the serious with her, she missed the wedding of two friends and, as a belated gift, prepared for them a doctored version of Mark Bittman's eminently useful How to Cook Everything, with her name substituted wherever possible as author, and a new, foul-mouthed "Acknowledgments" section pasted over the existing one.
Jennifer L. Knox Is Invited, Retroactively, to My Wedding Omnivoracious 2010
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But imagine the same paragraph with the name substituted: Dan Hannon has enough charisma and charm to be able to stress that policies, not personalities, are what matter.
LE WAR ON CAPITALISM 2009
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Note 1: The Spanish substituted for the Portuguese word formosa the Spanish version of the word, hermosa.
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Examples include onium and carboxonium ions, acyl cations, halonium, azonium, carbozonium ions, even certain substituted carbocations and the like.
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The negro, after obtaining a marriage license, returned a week later to the bureau, and asked to have another name substituted for that of the lady.
Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous
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The word substituted in the translation, is introduced in order to recall to the reader the sublime name given, not without justice, to Rudolf of Hapsburg, viz.,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various
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Nor is the general idea a name substituted as a sign for all the individual objects of the same class, as stated by Taine (De l'Intelligence, I, 26).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The word substituted in the translation is introduced in order to recall to the reader the sublime name given, not without justice, to Rudolf of Hapsburg, viz.,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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Here changes have only been made where it was certain that the Authorised Version was incorrect, and highly probable that the word substituted was right.
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