Crossword clues for substituting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Substitute \Sub"stit"ute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substituted; p. pr. & vb. n. Substituting.] [See Substitute, n.] To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.
Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room
of others.
--Congreve.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of substitute English)
WordNet
n. working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence [syn: subbing]
Usage examples of "substituting".
On the so-called translator is forced the job of taking unrelated syllables and grouping them into what looks to him to be intelligible words, substituting then such of the Chinese ideographs necessary to pin it down, and then going ahead with the translation, which is a much more difficult job than simple translation.
This small staff was quite equal to all the requirements, for a canal between Beaucaire and Aiguemortes had revolutionized transportation by substituting boats for the cart and the stagecoach.
Librarian, which spent its whole mechanical life substituting free association for thinking, had a related subject it would talk about if he liked.
The whole spectacle reminded Amalfi of NGC, 1435 in Taurus, with exploding cities substituting novas for the Pleiades.
The solution of this problem of nutrition, like the solution of the housing problem, must be sought by retaining the advantageous food customs which we now find about us and substituting scientific customs for the disadvantageous ones.
Bromine is used extensively in organic chemistry as a substituting and oxidizing agent and also for the preparation of addition compounds.
Helva, substituting a magnifying device in one extension and holding it over the picture.
They should, then, prepare for the unknown future by husbanding their ammunition and by substituting for it some easily renewable substance.
However, the use of pyroxyle was to be continued, for this substance giving excellent results, there was no reason for substituting ordinary powder.
The new commerce robbed the peasant of some of his markets by substituting foreign articles like indigo and cochineal for domestic farm products.
Both in risk and potential gain, it was a major act, and in substituting common sense and courage for mindless continuance in negation, it ranks high and lonely in history, undiminished by the subsequent tragedy of assassination.
Immediate Inference by changing the quality of the given proposition and substituting for its predicate the contradictory term.
This may be done by substituting a particular proposition for an universal, or an universal for a particular.
But the mode now adopted in the navy of substituting iron tanks for wooden casks, tends greatly to obviate this disadvantage.
Diocletian was a man of sense, who, in the course of private as well as public life, had formed a just estimate both of himself and of mankind: nor is it easy to conceive, that in substituting the manners of Persia to those of Rome, he was seriously actuated by so mean a principle as that of vanity.