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 

• SUBSTITUTING (noun)

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)