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单词 substitution
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Definition of substitution in English:

substitution

noun sʌbstɪˈtjuːʃnˌsəbstɪˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • The action of replacing someone or something with another person or thing.

    the substitution of rail services with buses
    count noun a tactical substitution
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is too late for crop substitution with this one because they are about to harvest it.
    • In an act of substitution he replaces barren dryness with his fertile fluidity.
    • At the same time, he raises the issue of substitution and exchange in a social and economic sphere.
    • The adoption of class and therapeutic substitution are customer responses to poor perceived value.
    • The substitution of an allegedly objective, measurable indicator can be appealing.
    • Think of what the country could have been spared had that substitution not taken place.
    • The substitution of one person for another ranges from the literal to the abstract.
    • If substitution is called for, then we should face up to that, and not pretend that we are delivering the original thing.
    • He rejects penal substitution because he thinks that God is love, and a loving God would never seek retribution.
    • We are fast abandoning our cultural and religious values in substitution for western ideals.
    • Those who do not speak an Indian language may not be blamed for this arbitrary vowel substitution.
    • There is no other member of the club who can currently replace him, and that showed after his substitution.
    • However, that substitution was no reflection on the efforts of Preston who had been having a steady game.
    • A jar of dried basil or even a basil plant would be a more appropriate substitution than coriander.
    • The principle is to consider the field of rivalry in terms of the potential for substitution in the long term.
    • He argues that this disjuncture comes from time's infinite capacity for substitution.
    • The Attorney General opposed the motion for substitution on procedural grounds.
    • He made the type of telling substitution that he has employed to effect.
    • There are concerns about bench-marking and substitution and a whole lot of issues.
    • Crop substitution and improved market access are essential in the next few years.
    Synonyms
    exchange, change, interchange
    replacement, replacing, swapping, switching
    swap, switch, trade-off, barter
    North American trade

Derivatives

  • substitutional

  • adjective sʌbstɪˈtjuːʃ(ə)n(ə)riˌsəbstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n(ə)l
    • Under the substitutional theory of artifact production, the forgeries of documents so common in the Middle Ages can be understood as the legitimate reproduction of accidentally misplaced facts.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is in contrast to recently published reports in which good performance of reconstruction methods was recorded despite extensive substitutional saturation.
      • But the interference between the substitutional principle of origins and the authorial or performative principle of artifact production was dynamic.
      • For simplicity the interstitial elements carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, boron, and hydrogen will be referred to as contaminants, and the substitutional elements, intentionally added, will be referred to as alloying elements.
      • Art in his view did not really enter into its full historical role, its civilizing potential, until the figural and substitutional folding of time had finally been straightened out.
  • substitutionary

  • adjective
    • This is not a point that popular evangelical preaching makes well, which tends all too often to see a merely human Jesus being afflicted (in a substitutionary, transactional kind of way) with the total anger of God above.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He had a bit of trouble with the largely Evangelical audience who didn't like his critique of the penal substitutionary theory of the Atonement.
      • Surely, at the heart of salvation is the cross of Christ; but, regrettably, how easy it is for evangelicals to reduce the meaning and significance of Christ's death by minimizing substitutionary atonement.
      • It affirms the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures, original sin, substitutionary atonement and justification by faith.
      • If He was there in my stead, as my representative, doing business for me, then, the agony that He endured in the substitutionary process is the agony that I must endure in hell, if I refuse to allow Him to substitute for me.

Rhymes

ablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, irresolution, Lilliputian, locution, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, restitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, volution
 
 

Definition of substitution in US English:

substitution

nounˌsəbstɪˈt(j)uʃ(ə)nˌsəbstiˈt(y)o͞oSH(ə)n
  • The action of replacing someone or something with another person or thing.

    a tactical substitution
    the substitution of pediatricians for grandmothers in guiding baby care
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If substitution is called for, then we should face up to that, and not pretend that we are delivering the original thing.
    • We are fast abandoning our cultural and religious values in substitution for western ideals.
    • Those who do not speak an Indian language may not be blamed for this arbitrary vowel substitution.
    • In an act of substitution he replaces barren dryness with his fertile fluidity.
    • It is too late for crop substitution with this one because they are about to harvest it.
    • However, that substitution was no reflection on the efforts of Preston who had been having a steady game.
    • At the same time, he raises the issue of substitution and exchange in a social and economic sphere.
    • Think of what the country could have been spared had that substitution not taken place.
    • He rejects penal substitution because he thinks that God is love, and a loving God would never seek retribution.
    • The Attorney General opposed the motion for substitution on procedural grounds.
    • He made the type of telling substitution that he has employed to effect.
    • A jar of dried basil or even a basil plant would be a more appropriate substitution than coriander.
    • He argues that this disjuncture comes from time's infinite capacity for substitution.
    • The adoption of class and therapeutic substitution are customer responses to poor perceived value.
    • The substitution of one person for another ranges from the literal to the abstract.
    • The principle is to consider the field of rivalry in terms of the potential for substitution in the long term.
    • There is no other member of the club who can currently replace him, and that showed after his substitution.
    • The substitution of an allegedly objective, measurable indicator can be appealing.
    • Crop substitution and improved market access are essential in the next few years.
    • There are concerns about bench-marking and substitution and a whole lot of issues.
    Synonyms
    exchange, change, interchange
 
 
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