Surrogate vs Surname - What's the difference?
surrogate | surname |
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.
(obsolete) An additional name, particularly those derived from a birthplace, quality, or achievement; an epithet.
* Arthour and Merlin , 5488:
* 1526 , (w, Tyndale's Bible), Acts I 23:
* 1590 , Richard Harvey, Plaine Percevall the peace-maker of England, Sweetly indeuoring with his blunt persuasions to botch vp a reconciliation between Mar-ton and Mar-tother , B3:
* (William Shakespeare), (Coriolanus) , V iii 171:
(obsolete) An additional name given to a person, place, or thing; a byname or nickname.
* (w, Wycliff's Bible), Ecclus. XLVII 19:
* 1638 , Abraham Cowley, (Davideis) , IV:
The name a person shares with other members of that person's family, distinguished from that person's given name or names; a family name.
* 1393 , (William Langland), (Piers Plowman) , C iv 369:
* 1605 , William Camden, Remaines , I 32:
* 1876 , E. A. Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest , V xxv 563:
(Classical studies) The cognomen of Roman names.
* "St. John Baptist", 928 in W. M. Metcalfe, Legends of the saints: in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century (1896), II 249:
(Scottish, obsolete) A clan.
* 1455 in J. D. Marwick, Charters of Edinburgh (1871), 79:
To give a surname .
To call by a surname .
As nouns the difference between surrogate and surname
is that surrogate is a substitute (usually of a person, position or role) while surname is (obsolete) an additional name, particularly those derived from a birthplace, quality, or achievement; an epithet.As verbs the difference between surrogate and surname
is that surrogate is to replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor while surname is to give a surname .As an adjective surrogate
is of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.surrogate
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* See alsoVerb
(surrogat)Synonyms
* deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substituteSee also
* surrogatum ----surname
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(en noun)- Þe]] Osoman, cert, His surname was: hardi of [[heart, hert.
- Barsabas (whose syrname was Iustus).
- My sirname is Peace-Maker, one that is but poorely regarded in England.
- To his sur-name Coriolanus longs]] more pride
Then [[pity, pitty to our Prayers.
- In the name of the Lord, to whom the surname [toname in the 1382 ed.] is God of Israel.
- I have before declared that Baal was the Sun, and Baal Peor, a sirname , from a particular place of his worship.
- Þat]] is reisonable...to refusy my [[sire's, syres sorname .
- In late yeeres]] Surnames have beene given for Christian names among [[us, vs, and no where else in Christendom.
- The Norman Conquest...brought with it the novelty of family nomenclature, that is to say, the use of hereditary surnames .
- Þe]] thred herrod had [[also, alsua til his suornome agrippa.
- The surnam and nerrest]] of [[blood, blude to the said Williame.