different between temporary vs surrogate

English

Alternative forms

• tempory (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temporarius, from tempus (“time”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?mp????i/, /?t?mp??i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?mp?????i/
• Hyphenation: tem?po?rary

Adjective

temporary (comparative more temporary, superlative most temporary)

1. Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
2. Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ephemeral

Translations

Noun

temporary (plural temporaries)

1. One serving for a limited time; short-term employee.

Synonyms

• temp

Translations

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?