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Subsignation
- - The act of writing the name under something, as for attestation.
Subsistences
- noun - a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence"
- minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence"
- the state of existing in reality; having substance
Subspherical
- - Nearly spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.
Substantiate
- verb - establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
- make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions"
- represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
- solidify, firm, or strengthen; "The president's trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country"
Substantival
- adjective - of or relating to or having the nature or function of a substantive (i.e. a noun or noun equivalent); "a substantival constituent"
Substantives
- noun - any word or group of words functioning as a noun
Substituting
- verb - act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold"
- be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
- working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence
Substitution
- noun - an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"
Substitutive
- - Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.