ALL meanings of substitute
sub·sti·tute
S s - noun substitute sth in place of other 1
- noun substitute sports: replacement 1
- transitive verb substitute use in place of other 1
- intransitive verb substitute be used in place 1
- adjective substitute in place of another 1
- noun substitute substitute teacher 1
- intransitive verb substitute as teacher 1
- noun substitute a person or thing acting or serving in place of another. 1
- noun substitute (formerly) a person who, for payment, served in an army or navy in the place of a conscript. 1
- noun substitute Grammar. a word that functions as a replacement for any member of a class of words or constructions, as do in He doesn't know but I do. 1
- verb with object substitute to put (a person or thing) in the place of another. 1
- verb with object substitute to take the place of; replace. 1
- verb with object substitute Chemistry. to replace (one or more elements or groups in a compound) by other elements or groups. 1
- verb without object substitute to act as a substitute. 1
- adjective substitute of or relating to a substitute or substitutes. 1
- adjective substitute composed of substitutes. 1
- noun Technical meaning of substitute (character) (SUB) ASCII character 26. 1
- verb substitute If you substitute one thing for another, or if one thing substitutes for another, it takes the place or performs the function of the other thing. 0
- countable noun substitute A substitute is something that you have or use instead of something else. 0
- countable noun substitute If you say that one thing is no substitute for another, you mean that it does not have certain desirable features that the other thing has, and is therefore unsatisfactory. If you say that there is no substitute for something, you mean that it is the only thing which is really satisfactory. 0
- countable noun substitute In team games such as football, a substitute is a player who is brought into a match to replace another player. 0
- verb substitute to serve or cause to serve in place of another person or thing 0
- verb substitute to replace (an atom or group in a molecule) with (another atom or group) 0
- verb substitute to replace (one expression) by (another) in the context of a third, as replacing x + y for x in 3x = k gives 3x + 3y = k 0
- noun substitute a person or thing that serves in place of another, such as a player in a game who takes the place of an injured colleague 0
- noun substitute (as modifier) 0
- noun substitute (formerly) a person paid to replace another due for military service 0
- noun substitute a person or thing serving or used in place of another 0
- noun substitute any word or word group, as a pronoun, the verb to do, etc., used in place of another word or words (Ex.: did for shouted in “she shouted and he did, too”) 0
- verb transitive substitute to put or use in place of another 0
- verb transitive substitute to take the place of 0
- verb transitive substitute to replace as a substituent 0
- intransitive verb substitute to act or serve in place of another 0
- adjective substitute being a substitute or substitutes 0