different between surrogate vs provisional

English

Etymology

From Latin surrog?tus, perfect passive participle of surrog?re (“ask”); a variant of subrog?re, from sub (“under”) + rog?re (“ask”).

Pronunciation

Adjective and noun:

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?????t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s????t/

Verb:

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s????e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s???e?t/

Noun

surrogate (plural surrogates)

1. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:substitute

2. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
3. (chiefly Britain) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
4. (US, politics) A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
5. (US law) A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and interstate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
6. (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
7. (economics) An ersatz good.
8. (databases) Ellipsis of surrogate key.

Hyponyms

(Unicode codepoint):

• high surrogate
• low surrogate

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Dutch: surrogaat

Adjective

surrogate (comparative more surrogate, superlative most surrogate)

1. Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.

Translations

Verb

surrogate (third-person singular simple present surrogates, present participle surrogating, simple past and past participle surrogated)

1. (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; to appoint a successor.

   Synonyms: deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substitute

Related terms

Translations

See also

• surrogatum

Anagrams

• outragers

Italian

Adjective

surrogate f

1. feminine plural of surrogato

Latin

Verb

surrog?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of surrog?

English

Etymology

From Middle French provisionnal (compare French provisionnel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???v???n?l/

Adjective

provisional (not comparable)

1. Temporary, but with the intention of eventually becoming permanent or being replaced by a permanent equivalent.

Synonyms

• provisionary

Derived terms

• nonprovisional
• provisionality
• provisionally
• provisionalness

Translations

Noun

provisional (plural provisionals)

1. (philately) A postage stamp issued locally before an official issue is released.

   Synonym: provisory

2. (dentistry) An interim denture.
   • 2015, Stuart J. Froum, Dental Implant Complications (page 518)

     If this was not possible, then alternatives including provisionalizing with a complete denture or a tooth-supported fixed provisional and a staged treatment protocol should have been considered.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From provisió +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /p?o.vi.zi.o?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /p?u.bi.zi.u?nal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

provisional (masculine and feminine plural provisionals)

1. provisional

   Synonym: provisori

Derived terms

• provisionalitat
• provisionalment

Further reading

• “provisional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Spanish

Etymology

From provisión +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?obisjo?nal/, [p?o.??i.sjo?nal]

Adjective

provisional (plural provisionales)

1. provisional

   Synonym: provisorio

2. makeshift

Derived terms

• provisionalidad
• provisionalmente

Further reading

• “provisional” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.