1A person or thing acting or serving in place of another.

1. 1.1 A sports player nominated as eligible to replace another after a game has begun.
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   • This win is testimony to the great work done by this bunch of players and substitutes over the last three months and it is hoped that further success will follow in the years to come.
   • All 11 players and three substitutes were outstanding.
   • In all the incident lasted about five minutes and eye witnesses told of fists, boots and hurleys being used as players, substitutes and spectators were drawn into the brawl.
   • Each team will comprise of 5 players and two substitutes and games begin at 9.30 am prompt.
   • Each team was allowed up to eight players including two rotating substitutes, and each team was guaranteed three games.
   • There are seven players in a team and a maximum of 12 players make up a squad to allow for substitutes.
   • On an earlier occasion, I suggested that if a player is injured and unable to take part, a substitute should replace the injured man and take part in the game without any restrictions whatsoever.
   • A covering defender stretched to block the cross and was very unfortunate to see his attempted clearance creep in at the near post despite the best efforts of the substitute goalkeeper.
   • The solution is quite simple - let's go back to having 13 players and two substitutes making sure everyone plays for the shirt.
   • The teams - in orange, blue or green bibs - are each a deliberate mixture of first-team regulars, substitutes and fringe players.
   • No doubt West Bromwich substitutes will summon players off the pitch, take their preferred place on the field and send off the referee.
   • Yes, I've played 30 games this season but for the last four or five matches I've been amongst the substitutes, which is obviously disappointing.
   • He embraced a few desolate Brazilians, saluted some unused substitutes, stood back from the party and took his leave.
   • Even if he is used sparingly as a substitute, such a player can always unlock doors and turn tides in the blink of an eye.
   • Otley Town were forced to re-play this West Riding County FA Challenge Cup tie after playing an ineligible player as a substitute for less than a minute in the original tie.
   • With no substitutes available, the player gamely attempted to play on hoping that treatment during the interval could do the trick.
   • He has made only three appearances as a substitute in competitive matches, the last of them for the final six minutes of the 2-2 draw away to Austria.
   • It is disheartening to see teams at a school where 58 percent of its students are female not have enough players to have substitutes on the bench.
   • Parsley again goes into a cup match without a substitute goalkeeper.
   • I was revived by smelling salts but, without a substitute to replace me, I played on.
2. 1.2Psychology A person or thing that becomes the object of love or other emotion deprived of its natural outlet.
   a father substitute

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   • Before World War II, the single mother remained within her family circle, where a grandfather or uncle could become a substitute father.
   • The instructor had been an older man and someone that Carl had seen as a father figure, a substitute to fill part of a missing piece of his life.
   • Given the reality of the father's physical absence, it may be difficult to find other substitutes for the missing roles.
   • Victorio is dispassionate and controlling as the substitute father figure.
   • Obsession, Johnson implies, is a poor substitute for love, and scopophilia a thin alternative to sex.

1Use or add in place of.

1. 1.1no object Act or serve as a substitute.
   I found someone to substitute for me

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   • Unmanned air surface and undersea vehicles can substitute for the loss of a number of ships, but not for all of them.
   • It has some utility, but it wouldn't ever substitute for trial by jury.
   • Within a year or so of the Revolution, he adopted - with typical enthusiasm - the principle that in crisis the Party must substitute for the proletariat.
   • They must not substitute for effective action.
   • I think that they need to understand that praying does not substitute for public practice.
   • Cellphones won't substitute for hands-on protection by parents.
   • This week will substitute for the monthly meeting for May.
   • The fact of the matter is, the journalism business is a very local business, and no amount of technology available right now can substitute for being in somebody's face.
   • In time little voice intonations, punctuation and even language choice will substitute for body language.
   • All you do is pout like a little boy and cry out ‘you are a typical conservative’ as if the repetition of that hoary cliche is supposed to substitute for a real argument.
   • Ballots substitute for bullets in venting internal frustrations.
   • Simply put, no federal outreach effort can substitute for the quality and quantity of contacts that local police officers have within the neighborhoods they serve.
   • Bananas are a good alternative to potatoes as a source of potassium, and citrus fruits can substitute for broccoli to cover vitamin C requirements.
   • Insurers have guaranteed schools that non-teaching staff employed to patrol school property or to substitute for staff on uncertified sick leave will be covered.
   • Every time a function that used to be performed by public servants is outsourced to the private sector, private jobs substitute for public ones.
   • So do not take the following sentences as some fluffy hyperbole meant to substitute for a real, five paragraph review.
   • The loss of this essential service will place hardship on many people who do not as yet have access to the kind of banking facilities which will be necessary to substitute for walking into the local office.
   • A survey showed more than 70 per cent of students said typing on a keyboard can substitute for handwriting.
   • It did not substitute for a congressional investigation.
   • No longer can a lot of cheery-sounding mush from teachers and administrators substitute for hard facts.

   Synonyms

   substitute, deputize, stand in, cover, provide cover, take over, act, act as deputy, act as stand-in, sit in, act as understudy, understudy, be a proxy, act as locum tenens
2. 1.2 Replace (someone or something) with another.
   customs officers substituted the drugs with another substance

   this was substituted by a new clause

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Just as well I did, too, because a clerical error had substituted a different model than the one I chose.
   • Those amendments validate changes in membership, either to replace or to substitute members during the course of tribunal hearings.
   • Witnesses of non-Judeo-Christian faiths can also ask to substitute an alternate text for the Bible.
   • Today reserves the right to substitute the concert and recording session or elements thereof with a prize of equal or greater value at their sole discretion.
   • Policies aimed at separate development will ghettoise Aboriginal people, substituting their theoretical oppressors with real ones.
   • That would be substituting one religion with another.
   • You might need to substitute a different user name.
   • These are merely guidelines; substitute different grains, fruits and nuts as you wish.
   • A different picture emerges if we substitute a conceptual framework that is inclusive of gift exchange and its role in these societies.
   • Alternatively substitute the shovelling with a good brisk walk for that hour and a half followed by the other.
   • We reserve the right to substitute similar products of equal or greater value in the unlikely event that the original prizes should be unavailable.
   • Once a player has played a card to a trick, she may not change her mind and substitute a different card.
   • Promoter reserves the right to substitute prizes of equal value in the event that circumstances beyond its control make this unavoidable.
   • Material comforts can never substitute unconditional love from one's family, whatever the comfort might be.
   • Research is ongoing, to determine whether commodity infestations can be managed by modifying the photoperiod and by substituting different wavelengths of light into the photoperiod.
   • Originally he was charged with 16 offences, but yesterday they were withdrawn and five sample charges were substituted.
   • People want to know if they can use one herb instead of another, or if they can make something ahead of time and reheat it, or if they can substitute different meat.
   • So we need to focus on different things to substitute that feeling, and we know this and we are working on this.
   • The next day I tell Mike I will look at the photos and try to identify them if they will substitute different photos for any that depict Jamal.
   • Lichtman has substituted a different table - never referred to in the report.
3. 1.3 Replace (a sports player) with a substitute during a contest.
   he was substituted for Nichols in the fifth inning

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   • Their three best players were all substituted at half-time and the second period was made up of reserve players.
   • At the other extreme, if we are well behind, the coach is also acting logically in throwing caution to the wind in substituting players on a wing and a prayer that they might conceivably make a difference.
   • Unsurprisingly the momentum was lost when Cassano was substituted with 20 minutes remaining.
   • Hughes said the conditions, which include substituting a player at any time during the match, would not help narrow the gap between Australia and the rest of the world.
   • The entrance of team mentors from each side was no help whatsoever and a player who had been substituted at half time came back on the field and joined in the melee.
   • France's star player picked up the injury in the 38th minute when engaged in a sprint and signalled to be substituted straight away.
   • The 37-year-old sparked a show of respect, almost hero worship, from his fellow players when he was substituted in the 67th minute of his final match before retirement.
   • The committee suggests that players be substituted frequently on hot days to increase rest periods.
   • Tell your kids that you are going to substitute every 3 minutes and that they all get to play equally.
   • After an ineffective first-half display, Owen was substituted seven minutes after the interval.
   • If you're not fond of the arcade style you can opt for the Simulation mode which emulates the real thing, right down to substituting fresh players to combat fatigue and injury.
   • He said it was easier to substitute field players who got injured but not so for a goalkeeper when he was alone on the bench.
   • He is obviously unaware that Wiltord was substituted a few minutes ago.
   • Solid depth means the Cowboys can substitute three players at a time and remain strong.
   • The Bradford man was able to continue but the Town player had to be substituted.
   • I decided to come off the bench in the second half but left it so late because I couldn't single out one player who deserved to be substituted.
   • Your players will win points if they pick up red or yellow cards, score own goals, are substituted, concede goals or, if they play up front, fail to score.
   • But he refused to gloat after United teammate Veron was substituted after an ineffective performance.
   • Firstly Big Players had to substitute their goalkeeper, due to a head injury sustained as he jumped to collect a high ball.
   • And on a night when nothing went right for the Shakers, an assistant even managed to substitute the wrong player.
4. 1.4Chemistry Replace (an atom or group in a molecule, especially a hydrogen atom) with another.
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   • The second module was the optionally substituted phenyl group at the 3 position, and the third module the optionally substituted phenyl group at the 4 position.
   • The presence of electron-donating amino or substituted amino groups in a molecule generally makes it a good electron donor.
   • At the second and third carbon atoms, instead of a full complement of hydrogens, each carbon atom would have a methyl group substituting one of the carbons.
   • The Vanderbilt team had the additional idea of not only attaching a nitrogen atom to the ring but substituting a nitrogen atom for one of the carbon atoms in the benzene ring itself.
   • In anaerobic environments, some bacteria are able to substitute metal ions for molecular oxygen in the process of respiration.
5. 1.5as adjective substitutedChemistry (of a compound) in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other atoms or groups.
   a substituted alkaloid

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   • Metoclopramide, a substituted benzamide derivative, is a gastrointestinal prokinetic agent that increases gastrointestinal motility.
   • One possibility is to dissolve the spent fuel in an ionic liquid, such as a substituted pyridinium nitrate, then separate out components of the fuel in solution.
   • For example, if the longest chain were found to be five carbon atoms, then the compound would be identified as a substituted pentane.
   • The side chains of the substituted residues easily accommodate in the dimer interlace.
   • The substituted alanines used as inhibitors can be regarded as both analogues of the substrates and the products.