substituting
present participle ofsubstitute
| 单词 | substituting |
| 释义 | substituting present participle ofsubstitute substitute verb uk/ˈsʌb.stɪ.tʃuːt/us/ˈsʌb.stə.tuːt/substituteverb(USE INSTEAD)B2[T] to use something or someoneinsteadof another thing orperson: You can substituteoilforbutter(= useoilinsteadofbutter)in thisrecipe. You can substitute thewheatflourwithalmondflour(= usealmondflourinsteadofwheatflour). He made hisfilmdebutwhen he was substitutedfortheactorwho wasoriginallycast. I took out the words "he" and "his" and substituted themwith"they" and "their". substitute forsomeone/something toperformthe samejobas another thing orpersonor to taketheirplace: Gas-firedpowerstationswill substitute for lessefficientcoal-firedequipment. Thesopranofirstappearedonstagewhen she substituted for someone who wasill.
Replacing and exchanging
substituteverb(IN SPORT)[Tusually passive]sportsspecialized insports, to use aplayerforpartof agameafterremovinganotherplayerfrom thegame: Ronaldo was substituted early in the secondhalf. Dayton was substitutedforWilliams in the secondhalfof thegame. I don'tknowwhy thecoachsubstituted me.
Replacing and exchanging
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Competitors & participants in sports & games Examplesofsubstitutingsubstituting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Thus, the intertemporal substitutability in consumption of the second good "undoes" the effect of the indivisibility bysubstitutingpercentages in time for probabilities. From theCambridge English Corpus This permits, for instance, referring expression generation to produce a single complex formula suitable forsubstitutinginto a proposition. From theCambridge English Corpus Users of text search engines use various strategies for refinement includingsubstitutingbroader and narrower terms to increase or decrease the number of hits, respectively. From theCambridge English Corpus However, the effect ofsubstitutinganswers is that unevaluated arguments in the environment of closures are duplicated. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps the weakness of this view can be made clearer simply bysubstitutingconcrete historical terms for abstract labels. From theCambridge English Corpus The analytical procedure has involvedsubstitutingsimplified indices for discrete measures of these perceptions. From theCambridge English Corpus Bysubstituting(8) into (9) and setting m=0 the variation of abundance with age becomes equation (5). From theCambridge English Corpus We have obtained this equation bysubstitutinginto (3.8) the expression (5.2) and by integrating along a field line. From theCambridge English Corpus I have shown, for instance, that there are examples of one deitysubstitutingfor another, and others in which two figures may be conflated. From theCambridge English Corpus We do not see much advantage insubstitutingparameters requiring more assumptions and less specificity at this point. From theCambridge English Corpus Such substitutions may involve a strong formal component, as the twosubstitutingsequences have many segments in common. From theCambridge English Corpus Bysubstitutinghealth professionals from other clinical areas to cover the hospital's essential services, patient welfare may be minimally safeguarded, at least temporarily. From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore,substitutingprimary resin with secondary resin can in theory reduce costs while still meeting final demand. From theCambridge English Corpus They also respond to the labor market effects of employment creation in the industrial sector bysubstitutingherbicides for increasingly expensive weeding labor. From theCambridge English Corpus To improve environmental performance, the other option suggested by the author issubstitutingother low carbon fuels for coal or using washed coal. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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