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SUBSTITUTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does substituting mean?
• SUBSTITUTING (noun)
The noun SUBSTITUTING has 1 sense:
1. working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence
Familiarity information: SUBSTITUTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
subbing; substituting
Hypernyms ("substituting" is a kind of...):
work (activity directed toward making or doing something)
Derivation:
substitute (be a substitute)
substitute (act as a substitute)
Context examples
Edotreotide is produced by substituting tyrosine for phenylalanine at the 3 position of octreotide and chelated via dodecanetetraacetic acid (DOTA).
(Edotreotide, NCI Thesaurus)
Edotreotide is produced by substituting tyrosine for phenylalanine at the 3 position of the somatostatin analogue octreotide (Tyr3-octreotide or TOC) and chelated by the bifunctional, macrocyclic chelating agent dodecanetetraacetic acid (DOTA).
(Lutetium Lu 177-Edotreotide, NCI Thesaurus)
A change in a document made by correction, adding, substituting or omitting a certain part.
(Amendment, NCI Thesaurus)
Scientists improved performance by substituting cobalt oxide with vanadium disulfide (VS2).
(Creating Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Made Possible with New Discovery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The amino acid methionine with selenium substituting for the sulphur moiety.
(L-Selenomethionine, NCI Thesaurus)
Coffee, without cream or milk, he had twice a day, in the evening substituting tea; but both coffee and tea were excellently cooked.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The increase in risk associated with red meat/poultry was reduced by substituting them with fish/shellfish.
(Eating Meat Linked to Higher Risk of Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A human nutrition study reaffirms the health benefits of substituting refined-grain products like white bread with whole-grain foods like whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, barley, rye, and brown or wild rice.
(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Gallium Ga 68-edotreotide is produced by substituting tyrosine for phenylalanine at the 3 position of the somatostatin analogue octreotide (Tyr3-octreotide or TOC) and chelating the substituted octreotide to Ga-68 via the macrocyclic chelating agent dodecanetetraacetic acid (DOTA).
(Gallium Ga 68-Edotreotide, NCI Thesaurus)
“When I explained my altered position to you, sir,” I began again, substituting a new form of expression for what was so unpalatable to him, this concealment, into which I am so unhappy as to have led Miss Spenlow, had begun.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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