Can we make a substitution?
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Substitution
//ˌsʌb.stɪˈtjuː.ʃən//
Synonyms for "substitution" (138 found)
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Closest matches (28)
Strong matches (41)
Related words (69)
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Noun(4 words)
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4 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
has context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 25 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- substitució noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 代入 noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- 替代 noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Dutch
2 entries- substitutie noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- substitutie noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
Esperanto
1 entries- anstataŭigo noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Finnish
4 entries- korvaaminen noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- korvautuminen noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
- sijaisuus noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- substituutio noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
French
2 entries- remplacement noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- réaction de substitution noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
Galician
2 entries- cambio noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- substitución noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
German
4 entries- Ersatz noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- Ersetzen noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- Ersetzung noun (expansion of the lexicon by native means in correspondence to a foreign term)
- Substituierung noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌹𐌽𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Ido
1 entries- substituco noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Indonesian
1 entries- substitusi noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
Irish
1 entries- malartaíocht noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
Italian
1 entries- sostituzione noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Japanese
2 entries- 代入 noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- 置換 noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Malay
4 entries- penggantian noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- penukargantian noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
- substitusi noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- substitusi noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
Māori
1 entries- kakapinga noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- substitusjon noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- substitusjon noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- substitusjon noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- substitusjon noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
Occitan
1 entries- substitucion noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- تعویض noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- عوض noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Portuguese
2 entries- substituição noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- substituição noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
Russian
2 entries- заме́на noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- подстано́вка noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Spanish
2 entries- cambio noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- sustitución noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
Swedish
4 entries- ersättning noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- substitution noun (the act of substituting or the state of being substituted)
- substitution noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
- substitution noun (expansion of the lexicon by native means in correspondence to a foreign term)
Tagalog
1 entries- paghuhulip noun (the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Is Algeria really following a policy of import substitution?
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There is a widespread opinion that all study of the mode of oratory is unmanly, and leads to the substitution of artifice and adornment for simplicity and power.
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Altho this substitution of assonance for rime is uncommon in the more literary lyrics, which we may suppose to have been composed with the pen, it is still frequently to be found in the popular song, born on the lips of the singer, and set down in black and white only as an afterthought.
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