What does surrogate mean?
Definitions for surrogate
ˈsɜr əˌgeɪt, -gɪt, ˈsʌr-; -ˌgeɪtsur·ro·gate
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Princeton's WordNet
surrogate, alternate, replacementnoun
someone who takes the place of another person
deputy, surrogateadjective
a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
foster, surrogateadjective
providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
"foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father"
GCIDE
Surrogatenoun
a surrogate mother.
Wiktionary
surrogatenoun
A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
surrogatenoun
A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.
surrogatenoun
A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
surrogatenoun
A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
surrogatenoun
A surrogate or surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database.
surrogatenoun
Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
surrogateverb
To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.
surrogateadjective
Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
Etymology: From surrogatus, perfect passive participle of surrogare; a variant of subrogare, from sub + rogare.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Surrogatenoun
A deputy; a delegate; the deputy of an ecclesiastical judge.
Etymology: surrogatus, Latin.
To Surrogateverb
To put in the place of another.
Etymology: surrogo, Latin.
ChatGPT
surrogate
A surrogate refers to a substitute or a replacement for someone or something else, particularly in the context of fulfilling a specific role or function. This term is often used in fields like medicine (surrogate mother), psychology (surrogate therapy), law (surrogate decision-maker), etc.
Webster Dictionary
Surrogatenoun
a deputy; a delegate; a substitute
Surrogatenoun
the deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses
Surrogatenoun
in some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates
Surrogateverb
to put in the place of another; to substitute
Etymology: [L. surrogatus, p. p. of surrogare, subrogare, to put in another's place, to substitute; sub under + rogare to ask, ask for a vote, propose a law. See Rogation, and cf. Subrogate.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Surrogate
sur′rō-gāt, n. a substitute: the deputy of an ecclesiastical judge.—ns. Sur′rogāteship; Surrogā′tion, subrogation; Surrogā′tum, that which comes in place of something else. [L. surrogāre, ātum—sub, in the place of, rogāre, to ask.]
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Anagrams for surrogate »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of surrogate in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of surrogate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of surrogate in a Sentence
It’s not the kind of vehicle Mr. Trump would ride through Iowa in, and these folks know that, but the Trump bus is now acting as a surrogate for Mr. Trump. It’s amazing to see 100 or 150 people come out.
I think Mike PenceVice is doing what Mike PenceVice can : saying the right things, defining Mike PenceVice as Mike PenceVice and not as Trump's surrogate, and helping others, but Mike PenceVice's kind of like a jet trying to land with a storm over the airport. Mike PenceVice's in a holding pattern until Donald Trump decides.
Let's say it works, and there's no horrible consequences. No surrogate elephant moms die, the idea that by bringing mammoths back and by placing them into the Arctic, you engineer the Arctic to become a better place for carbon storage. That aspect I have number of issues with.
The first lady is the best surrogate you can get, especially when they can connect, like Jill Biden can, to bread and butter issues like education and child care, usually, first ladies have much higher approval ratings, so they can appeal to a broader audience than their husbands. They tend to be less polarizing because they usually do not weigh in on hot-button political issues.
For example, cholesterol can be a surrogate outcome for measuring the effectiveness of a drug to treat heart disease.
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Translations for surrogate
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- substitut, suplentCatalan, Valencian
- Ersatz, Ersatz-, Stellvertreterin, Stellvertreter, SubstitutGerman
- sustituto, subrogarSpanish
- جایگزینPersian
- suppléante, substitut, suppléant, remplaçant, personne de substitution, remplaçante, substituteFrench
- surrogatoItalian
- תַחֲלִיףHebrew
- surrogaat, plaatsvervanger, vervangerDutch
- substitutoPortuguese
- ตัวแทนThai
- yedek, vekilTurkish
- người thay thếVietnamese
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