Temporary vs Surrogate - What's the difference?

Temporary is a related term of surrogate.

As adjectives the difference between temporary and surrogate

is that temporary is not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time while surrogate is of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.

As nouns the difference between temporary and surrogate

is that temporary is one serving for a limited time; short-term employee while surrogate is a substitute (usually of a person, position or role).

As a verb surrogate is

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

temporary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.

Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(temporaries)

One serving for a limited time; short-term employee.

Synonyms

* temp

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

* See also

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