Sentence examples for the substituting from inspiring English sources
verb
To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- I had no shallots so I substituted onion.
Substitution into modal contexts, we might say, is permitted only if the substituting terms are rigid designators.
A year later, the substituting turned into a full-time job.
The range of possible chemical substitutions in pyroxene is constrained by the sizes of the available sites in the structure and the charge of the substituting cations.
"The entire file was hand-delivered to the substituting attorney," he said, adding that he did not want to discuss details of the case because of lawyer-client privilege.
Fowler defines "genteelism" as "the substituting, for the ordinary natural word that first suggests itself to the mind, of a synonym that is thought to be less soiled by the lips of the common herd, less familiar, less plebian, less vulgar, less improper, less apt to come unhandsomely betwixt the wind & our nobility".
The chemical analysis confirmed the presence of the substituting atoms in the final HA powders.
The substituted bill contains some improvements over current law.
The red arrow indicates the substituted nucleotide.
The verification step compares the substituted read against the substituted genomic region to identify mismatches.
The lowercase letters are the substituted nucleotide residues.
The Italians substituted the tomato for eggplant.
