Surrogate vs Ersatz - What's the difference?
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A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.
(chiefly, British) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
: A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
A surrogate'' or ''surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database.
(computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.
Made in imitation; artificial, especially of an inferior quality.
Something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute.
As nouns the difference between surrogate and ersatz
is that surrogate is a substitute (usually of a person, position or role) while ersatz is something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute.As adjectives the difference between surrogate and ersatz
is that surrogate is of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute while ersatz is made in imitation; artificial, especially of an inferior quality.As a verb surrogate
is to replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.surrogate
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(surrogat)Synonyms
* deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substituteSee also
* surrogatum ----ersatz
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Back then, we could only get ersatz coffee.
Synonyms
* artificial, faux, imitation, knock offQuotations
* 1923 , Arthur Michael Samuel,The Mancroft Essays'', ''Pinchbeck'', page 164 (possibly published before in ''The Saturday Review in 1917–1921): *: In these days of “rolled” gold, electro-plate, and undetectable pearls, it is curious that almost the only honest Ersatz material known to the goldsmith's art should be utterly forgotten. * 1929 , "Zeppelining," Time , 16 Sep., *: Ersatzgas'', ''Ersatzpfennige . Ersatz has become a brave word in Germany. As a substantive it means War Reparations. As part of compounded words it means substitute. * 2001 , The New Yorker , 15 Oct, *: The avant-garde's opposite number, in Greenberg's scheme, is kitsch, "ersatz culture"—art for capitalism's new man (who turns out to be no different from Fascism's or Communism's new man). * 2003 , The New Yorker , 17 & 24 Feb, *: The NATO visitors watched an ersatz eighteenth-century dance (complete with powdered wigs and simulated copulation) that might have been considered obscene had it not been so amusing. * 2004 , The New Yorker , 31 May, *: The crowd wandered out to a huge party on the ersatz city blocks of the Paramount lot.
Noun
(ersatzes)- (en)