Substitute

Substitute may refer to:

In economics:

  • Substitute good: two goods are substitutes in demand if, when the market price of the first good rises, the price of the second good also rises, and vice-versa.
  • Ersatz, an artificial replacement differing in kind from and inferior in quality to what it replaces.

In sports:

  • Substitute player
    • Substitute (association football)
    • Substitute (cricket)

In film and television:

  • The Substitute, a 1996 action-crime-thriller film starring Tom Berenger
    • The Substitute (soundtrack)
  • Substitute (film), a film by Vikash Dhorasoo
  • The Substitute (1993 film), a telefilm by Martin Donovan
  • The Substitute (2007 film)
  • "Substitute" (Beavis and Butt-head episode)
  • "The Substitute" (Lost), an episode of Lost
  • "The Substitute" (Recess episode)
  • "The Substitute", a Season 1 episode of Saved by the Bell
  • "The Substitute", a Glee (season 2) episode

In music:

  • "Substitute" (Clout song)
  • "Substitute" (Izabella Scorupco song)
  • "Substitute" (Righteous Brothers song)
  • "Substitute" (The Who song)

In other uses:

  • Substitute (character), a control character used in the place of another character
  • Substitute teacher, a temporary replacement that takes over in a teacher's absence
  • Substitute flag, part of the International maritime signal flags set

Famous quotes containing the word substitute:

    “It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance ... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God’s ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.”
    —Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)

    “For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)