Definitions of repair [ɪˈpɛər]

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Definition of 'repair'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) repair
to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend.

2.  repair
to restore or renew.

3.  repair
to remedy; make up for; compensate for.

4. (n.) repair
an act, process, or work of repairing.

5.  repair
Usu., repairs.

6.  repair
an instance or operation of repairing.

7.  repair
a repaired part or an addition made in repairing.

8.  repair
the good condition resulting from continued maintenance and repairing:
to keep in repair.

9.  repair
condition with respect to soundness and usability:
a house in good repair.

10. (v.i.) repair
to betake oneself; go:
He repaired in haste to Paris.

11.  repair
to go customarily.

12. (n.) repair
a resort or haunt.

13.  repair
the act of going, esp. customarily.

Etymology: (1300–50; < OF repairier to return < LL repatriāre to return to one's fatherland; see repatriate)

Definition of 'repair'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation
the act of putting something in working order again

2. (noun) repair
a formal way of referring to the condition of something
"the building was in good repair"

3. (verb) haunt, hangout, resort, repair, stamping ground
a frequently visited place

4. (verb) repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
"She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"

5. (verb) compensate, recompense, repair, indemnify
make amends for; pay compensation for
"One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"

6. (verb) repair, resort
move, travel, or proceed toward some place
"He repaired to his cabin in the woods"

7. (verb) rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend
set straight or right
"remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"

8. (verb) animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

Definition of 'repair'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) repair
to fix sth that is broken
I took my watch to be repaired.

2. repair
to improve a damaged relationship, system, etc.
attempts to repair the harm done during the war

3. (noun) repair
sth done to repair sth
expensive repairs to the car

4. repair
beyond repair
badly damaged and unable to be fixed
a relationship that is beyond repair

Definition of 'repair'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) repair
the act of repairing or resorting to a place

2. (noun) repair
place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort

3. (noun) repair
restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city

4. (noun) repair
condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair

5. (verb) repair
to return

6. (verb) repair
to go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety

7. (verb) repair
to restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune

8. (verb) repair
to make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage

Definition of 'repair'

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. repair
The restoration of an item to serviceable condition through correction of a specific failure or unserviceable condition.

Translation of 'repair'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to mend; to make (something) that is damaged or has broken down work again; to restore to good condition to repair a broken lock / torn jacket.
Afrikaans: herstel	Arabic: يُصَلِّح	Bulgarian: поправям
Brazilian: consertar/reparar	Czech: spravit	German: reparieren
Danish: reparere	Greek: επιδιορθώνω, επισκευάζω	Spanish: reparar, arreglar
Estonian: parandama	Farsi: تعمیر کردن؛ وصله پینه کرد	Finnish: korjata
French: réparer	Hebrew: לְתָקֵן	Hindi: मरम्मत करना
Croatian: popraviti, obnoviti	Hungarian: megjavít	Indonesian: memperbaiki
Icelandic: gera við, lagfæra	Italian: riparare	Japanese: 修理する
Korean: 수리하다	Lithuanian: (pa)taisyti, (su)remontuo	Latvian: remontēt; labot; lāpīt
Malay: memperbaiki	Dutch: repareren	Norwegian: sette i stand, reparere
Polish: (z)reperować	Persian: تعمیر کردن؛ وصله پینه کرد	Pashto: تلل، ستنېدل: ترميمول، رغو
Portuguese: consertar	Romanian: a repara	Russian: (по)чинить
Slovak: opraviť	Slovenian: popraviti	Serbian: popraviti
Swedish: reparera, laga	Thai: ซ่อมแซม	Turkish: tamir etmek, onarmak
Taiwanese: 修理	Ukrainian: лагодити, ремонтувати	Urdu: مرمت کرنا
Vietnamese: sửa	Chinese: 修理
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