Remove vs Substitute - What's the difference?
remove | substitute |
(label) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
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*(Bible), (w) xix.14:
*:Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark.
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, chapter=2 # To replace a dish within a course.
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(label) To murder.
To dismiss a batsman.
(label) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
*:Die had she rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any should of falsenesse her reproue, / Or loosenesse, that she lightly did remoue .
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, title= To depart, leave.
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*:THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple
(label) To change one's residence; to move.
*(William Shakespeare)
*:Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
*:Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.
*1834 , (David Crockett), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p.20:
*:Shortly after this, my father removed , and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
To dismiss or discharge from office.
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The act of removing something.
* (rfdate) (Milton)
* (rfdate) (Goldsmith)
(archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
(British) (at some public schools ) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
* (rfdate) (Addison)
Distance in time or space; interval.
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, passage=In his unfortunate absence at this far remove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever.}}
(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
* (rfdate)
The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
To use in place of something else, with the same function.
In the phrase "substitute X for Y", to use X in place of Y. With increasing frequency used in the semantically opposite sense (see
In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y
(sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
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, date=April 11
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To serve as a replacement (for someone or something)
* 1987 , , Essays in Economics, Vol. 2 , p. 75
A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
* De Quincey
(sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
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, date=November 3
, author=David Ornstein
, title=Macc Tel-Aviv 1 - 2 Stoke
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(historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.
As verbs the difference between remove and substitute
is that remove is (label) to move something from one place to another, especially to take away while substitute is to use in place of something else, with the same function.As nouns the difference between remove and substitute
is that remove is the act of removing something while substitute is a replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.remove
English
Verb
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Synonyms
* unstayAntonyms
* (move something from one place to another) settle, place, addDerived terms
* removable * removal * removerNoun
(en noun)- This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
- And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
- A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
- It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
- (Jonathan Swift)
References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 1000 English basic words ----substitute
English
Verb
(substitut)- I had no shallots so I substituted onion.
the OED's notes).
- I had to substitute new parts for the old ones.
- I had to substitute old parts with the new ones. (This usage was formerly proscribed.)
- He was playing poorly and was substituted after twenty minutes
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- Accumulation of wealth by this route may substitute for personal saving.
Usage notes
The verb "to substitute" can be used transitively in two opposite ways. "To substitute X" may mean either "use X in place of something else" (as in definitions 1 and 2), or "use something else in place of X" (as in definitions 3 and 4). The latter use is more recent, but it is widespread and now generally accepted (seethe COED's note on the matter). However, if the indirect object (the "something else") is omitted, the preposition is also omitted, and the reader or hearer cannot tell which sense is meant: * "Substitute butter for olive oil" = Use butter instead of olive oil * "Substitute olive oil for butter" = Use olive oil instead of butter * "Substitute butter" = ??? * "Substitute olive oil" = ???
Noun
(en noun)- Ladies [in Shakespeare's age] wore masks as the sole substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol.
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