substitute
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English substituten, from Latin substitutus, past participle of substituō, from sub- (“under; beneath”) + statuō (“to put up; establish”).
Inflected forms:
form: substitutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: substituting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: substituted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: substituted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To use in place of something else, with the same function.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I had no shallots so I substituted onion.
gloss: To use X in place of Y.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I had to substitute new parts for the old ones.
gloss: To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I had to substitute old parts with the new ones.
You know when you first have a baby, and you're like "I'm gonna die 'cause I've never slept"? … and you get [an] hour and a half in the middle of the night that you get to sleep. Your partner's like, "I'll take care of this." … I used that hour and a half, instead of sleeping, to watch The Pitt. … The most panic inducing show. … I was just like I was like, "Why do I feel like vomiting 24/7? Oh, I substituted sleep for watching The Pitt."
gloss: To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was playing poorly and was substituted after twenty minutes
Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.
gloss: To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Accumulation of wealth by this route may substitute for personal saving.
Synonyms: swap
Derived words: bisubstituted
bustitute
chlorosubstituted
cryosubstituted
disubstituted
heterosubstituted
homosubstituted
intersubstitute
monosubstituted
multisubstituted
nonsubstituted
pentasubstituted
persubstituted
polysubstituted
resubstitute
substitutability
substitutable
substitutee
substituter
substitutingly
substitutive
substitutor
tetrasubstituted
trisubstituted
unsubstituted
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتَبْدَلَ
roman: istabdala
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əvəz etmək
lang: Bulgarian
word: заме́ствам
roman: zaméstvam
lang: Catalan
word: substituir
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 代替
roman: doi⁶ tai³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 代替
roman: dàitì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 替代
roman: tìdài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 替
roman: tì
lang: Czech
word: nahradit
lang: Danish
word: erstatte
lang: Danish
word: substituere
lang: Dutch
word: vervangen
lang: Dutch
word: substitueren
lang: Esperanto
word: anstataŭigi
lang: Finnish
word: korvata
lang: French
word: mettre en place de
lang: French
word: remplacer
lang: French
word: substituer
lang: Galician
word: substituír
lang: German
word: ersetzen
lang: Greek
word: υποκαθιστώ
roman: ypokathistó
lang: Greek
word: αντικαθιστώ
roman: antikathistó
lang: Greek
word: αναπληρώνω
roman: anapliróno
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀνθυπαλλάσσω
roman: anthupallássō
lang: Hebrew
word: הֵמִיר
roman: hemír
lang: Hungarian
word: helyettesít
lang: Hungarian
word: használ helyette
lang: Ido
word: substitucar
lang: Italian
word: sostituire
lang: Japanese
word: 替える
roman: kaeru
lang: Japanese
word: 代える
roman: kaeru
lang: Japanese
word: 替わる
roman: kawaru
lang: Japanese
word: 代用する
lang: Korean
word: 대용하다
roman: daeyonghada
lang: Latin
word: substituō
lang: Māori
word: whakakapi
lang: Māori
word: rīwhi
lang: Polish
word: podstawiać
lang: Polish
word: zamienić
lang: Polish
word: zastąpić
lang: Portuguese
word: substituir
lang: Romanian
word: înlocui
lang: Romanian
word: substitui
lang: Russian
word: заменя́ть
roman: zamenjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: замени́ть
roman: zamenítʹ
lang: Russian
word: замеща́ть
roman: zameščátʹ
lang: Russian
word: замести́ть
roman: zamestítʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: надоместити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: заменити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nadomjestiti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zamijeniti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: supstituirati
lang: Spanish
word: sustituir
lang: Spanish
word: substituir
lang: Swedish
word: ersätta
lang: Swedish
word: substituera
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تعویض ایتمك
roman: taʼviz etmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: заміня́ти
roman: zaminjáty
lang: Welsh
word: amnewid