代替 — meaning in English
dài tì
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English meaning
- displace verb To force people to leave their home or homeland.
- spell noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.
- substitute verb To use one thing or person in place of another.
- supersede verb To take the place of something older or less effective, so that the earlier version is no longer used or valid.
- understudy noun A performer who learns a role well enough to step in if the usual actor cannot perform.
Senses
代替 is used for these senses in English:
- displace To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- in lieu instead; in place
- in place of instead of
- instead of In lieu of; in place of; rather than.
- spell (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
- stand in for (idiomatic, transitive) To replace; to act as a double or substitute for.
- substitute (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- supersede (transitive) To take the place of.
displace — full definition
- verb To force people to leave their home or homeland.
- verb To take the place of something or someone, often by being better suited.
- verb To move something out of its normal or original position.
spell — full definition
- noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.
- verb To write or say the letters that make up a word, in the correct order.
- verb To indicate or signal that something is likely to happen.
- noun A short period of time doing a particular activity, or a stretch of a certain kind of weather.