Substituting

Word SUBSTITUTING
Character 12
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Definitions and meanings of "Substituting"

What do we mean by substituting?

To use in place of something else, with the same function.

(in the phrase "substitute X for Y") To use X in place of Y.

(in the phrase "substitute X with/by Y") To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.

To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.

To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).

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The word "substituting" in example sentences

Its name is seen as a play on Google's Chinese name "Gu Ge," substituting "jie," the Chinese word for older sister, for "ge," which means older brother. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course there are many possible alternative histories and the history that actually happened is the important version, as long as the historical revisionists are prevented in substituting politically correct versions of the history intended to make the deeds of survivors more palatable to their descendants. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am fairly indifferent in substituting one sales tax for another, and would support this shift, particularly if it heads of much more expensive and dangerous legislation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Koreans have taken to jokingly calling the side dish" geum-chi, "substituting in the Korean word for gold," CNN reports. ❋ Melissa Bell (2010)

I did all the same things, but I guess in substituting American brands something went just a little bit wrong. ❋ Karenhealey (2010)

Forty calls to teachers who had narrowly failed, to ask if they would be interested in substituting, yielded only two yeses. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A list of the names and affiliations of the remaining distinguished head table guests appears on the back of the printed program, with Mr. John Irwin substituting for Mr. Martin in the Royal Commonwealth Society. ❋ Unknown (1975)

(Hear, hear) There is syndicalism, which is anti-political and believes in substituting the direct action of the strike for the constitutional method of parliament. ❋ Unknown (1925)

a just estimate both of himself and of mankind: nor is it easy to conceive, that in substituting the manners of Persia to those of Rome, he was seriously actuated by so mean a principle as that of vanity. ❋ Unknown (1206)

There’d be no trouble in substituting the blueberries for other berries, would there? ❋ Unknown (2009)

(Having discovered s-e-x is the word that triggers the spam filter, I’m joining you in substituting a character. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dave's suggests that substituting occurs when an ingredient is unavailable or when a cook wants to change a flavor. ❋ Edible (2011)

But I can't handle the idea of substituting kindly Eddie Albert with The Rock, even if he has made a string of family films. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although I like the idea of substituting in sleeping dinoas well. ❋ James Gurney (2010)

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