substitute vs substitution
Definitions
noun
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
verb
- act as a substitute
- be a substitute
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
adjective
- serving or used in place of another
- capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
- artificial and inferior
Examples
Oh, and most of the scathe in my post was fairly mild. chouinard and I tend to substitute perjoratives for ... everything, actually.
By contrast, when Procter & Gamble, the makers of Olestra, asked the FDA for permission to add its artificial fat substitute to potato chips, the controversial product was evaluated under food-additive laws.
There was a reason for this: unbeknown to the Reserve Bank, the major banks were working secretly and cooperatively to develop an alternative payment system that would substitute for direct debits.
Definitions
noun
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
Examples
The dependent clause functions as a substitution item in a frame, the frame being the rest of the sentence.
In an act of substitution he replaces barren dryness with his fertile fluidity.
Whether normal Spanish verse has, or ever had, binary movement, with the occasional substitution of a "troche" for an "iambic," or vice-versa, is in dispute. [
