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Surrogate vs Liaison - What's the difference?

surrogate | liaison |

As nouns the difference between surrogate and liaison

is that surrogate is a substitute (usually of a person, position or role) while liaison is .

As an adjective surrogate

is of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.

As a verb surrogate

is to replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.

surrogate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
  • Verb

    (surrogat)
  • To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.
  • Synonyms

    * deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substitute

    See also

    * surrogatum ----

    liaison

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Communication between two parties or groups.
  • Co-operation, working together.
  • A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
  • A tryst, romantic meeting.
  • (figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
  • (linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il ".
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (proscribed) To liaise.