What's the difference between backup and substitute?

Backup


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Accordingly, the New York State rabies diagnostic laboratory has replaced the MIT with the in vitro procedure as a backup for the fluorescent-antibody test in the routine diagnosis of rabies.
  • (2) A total of 60 Gy was delivered in 30 fractions, with backup temporary pacing and continuous ECG monitoring used for the first 5 fractions.
  • (3) Pant had to buy extra hard drives to serve as backup copies of the top-secret files.
  • (4) I live in a town of 1,500 people with seven pharmacies as well as pain clinics and methadone clinics and the full backup industry.
  • (5) In the remaining 1,014 procedures (79%) (backup group), although the surgical team was "in house," they were not necessarily ready for an immediate intervention.
  • (6) Cooperative group protocols, used in the clinical setting of pediatric oncologists, with extensive resources and major referral center backup, have improved the prognosis of childhood ALL.
  • (7) These results indicate that the contribution to cell survival of UV endonuclease, an enzyme specific for pyrimidine dimers, is manifest if the backup by the Uvr homolog is absent.
  • (8) Carbamazepine receives special attention because of its status as the most promising backup treatment for lithium.
  • (9) My personal favorite part was Beyoncé had her backup singers and dancers in pantsuits.” Each celebrity who joined Clinton for her last push seemed to top the previous night, giving her closing appearances an aura of celebration.
  • (10) Joeri Van Bogaert, president of the FTTH Council, a lobbying group funded by telecoms manufacturers (but explicitly not telecoms companies), notes that if you introduce high-speed links, suddenly all sorts of connections become possible: video from local services streamed directly, high-speed real-time backups (100Mbps is twice as fast as USB 2.0), real-time high-quality interactive multiplayer games and so on.
  • (11) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
  • (12) Power demands and battery backup capability of equipment should be considered in future equipment purchases.
  • (13) A community woman, with educational, social service, and medical backup support from the Children and Youth Program, made home visits 7 to 10 days after the birth and between regularly scheduled well-child-care visits.
  • (14) Study findings indicate that efforts to reduce hospital backups must address specific barriers to timely LTC placement, including shortages of institutional and noninstitutional LTC services, and the lack of financial incentives for LTC providers to accept heavier care patients.
  • (15) Also, if greater than 3,500 ml is expected additional backup (i.e.
  • (16) The ribbon procedure appears to be a viable form of timeout, provided that disruptive behaviors during timeout can be tolerated within the setting, or a backup procedure such as exclusionary timeout can be tolerated within the setting, or a backup procedure such as exclusionary timeout is available when needed.
  • (17) Backup decongestant medication decreased during treatment with azelastine and increased during the placebo regimen.
  • (18) The Daily Staff Log is an empirically refined instrument to assess staff hours spent in direct patient and collateral contact, clinical backup time, consultation, education, and administration.
  • (19) Some, however, expressed frustration at what they saw as indecisive tactics by their senior command, as well as a general lack of police numbers and of riot-trained backup officers.
  • (20) His backup, Daryl Richardson, is inactive, meaning that rookie Bennie Cunningham should see some action in relief of Stacy.

Substitute


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else
  • (n.) a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.
  • (n.) To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
  • (2) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (3) To clarify the functional roles of His40, Glu58, and His92, we analyzed the consequences of several amino acid substitutions (His40Ala, His40Lys, His40Asp, Glu58Ala, Glu58Gln, and His92Gln) on the kinetics of GpC transesterification.
  • (4) It is concluded the decrease in cellular volume associated with substitution of serosal gluconate for Cl results in a loss of highly specific Ba2+-sensitive K+ conductance channels from the basolateral plasma membrane.
  • (5) The resonance Raman spectra of oxy and deoxy cobalt-substituted hemoglobin (CoHb) are reported.
  • (6) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
  • (7) S-methyl-l-cysteine, 2-hydroxy-4-methiol butyric acid, S-adenosyl-l-methionine, and methionine peptides were the only compounds supporting growth, when substituted for methionine.
  • (8) This implies that the epitope(s) of NNA-PLA2 might comprise some substituted residues in the sequence of PLA2 homologues.
  • (9) The deletions and substitutions appear to occur in separate molecules.
  • (10) Combination of domain substitutions to generate the [Glu107,123]bFGF and [Arg19,Lys123,126]bFGF mutants did not show any additivity of the mutations on biological activity.
  • (11) N-Methoxysulphonamides showed no inhibitory activity, as predicted by the classic work of Krebs on N-substituted inhibitors.
  • (12) Substitution of NaCl in the extracellular medium by sucrose, LiCl, or Na2SO4 had no effect on glutamate stimulation of [3H]dopamine release; however, release was inhibited when NaCl was replaced by choline chloride or N-methyl-D-glucamine HCl.
  • (13) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
  • (14) Substitutes: Andoni Zubizarreta (Spain), Lajos Detari (Hungary), Dragan Stojkovic (Yugoslavia), Igor Belanov (USSR), Preben Elkjær Larsen (Denmark), Lars Larsson (Sweden), Alexandre Zavarov (USSR).
  • (15) Lipoprotein concentrations reverted to normal after substitution with thyroxine (T4) until the euthyroid state was reached.
  • (16) Taken together with our previous studies showing that MDMA substitutes for the phenylisopropylamine stimulant (+)amphetamine, but that neither MDE nor N-OH MDA substitute for (+)amphetamine or for the phenylisopropylamine hallucinogen 1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylphenyl)-2-aminopropane (DOM), the present results [i.e., MDMA-stimulus generalization to MDE, N-OH MDA, but not to (+)amphetamine] suggest that 1) MDMA produces effects other than those that may be considered amphetamine-like, and 2) MDE and N-OH MDA are MDMA-like agents with even less of an amphetamine-like component of action than MDMA itself.
  • (17) TK1 showed the most restricted substrate specificity but tolerated 3'-modifications of the sugar ring and some 5-substitutions of the pyrimidine ring.
  • (18) Substitution of DnaK protein with that of the mutant DnaK756 protein blocks lambda P release.
  • (19) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
  • (20) Plasma drug concentrations, subjective self-ratings, and the digit symbol substitution test (DSST) were evaluated during 24 hours after dosage.