What does replace mean?
Definitions for replace
rɪˈpleɪsre·place
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Princeton's WordNet
replaceverb
substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)
"He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"
supplant, replace, supersede, supervene upon, supercedeverb
take the place or move into the position of
"Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
replace, put backverb
put something back where it belongs
"replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"
substitute, replace, interchange, exchangeverb
put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
"the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
Wiktionary
replaceverb
To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
replaceverb
To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
You can take what you need from the petty cash, but you must replace it tomorrow morning.
replaceverb
To supply or substitute an equivalent for.
replaceverb
To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfil the end or office of.
replaceverb
To demolish a building and build a updated form of that building in its place.
replaceverb
To place again.
replaceverb
To put in a new or different place.
Etymology: Prefix re- + place.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Replaceverb
Etymology: replacer, Fr. re and place.
The earl being apprehended, upon examination cleared himself so well, as he was replaced in his government. Francis Bacon.
The bowls, remov’d for fear,
The youths replac’d; and soon restor’d the chear. Dryden.His gods put themselves under his protection, to be replaced in their promised Italy. John Dryden, Virgil. Ded. to.
ChatGPT
replace
To replace means to take the place of something or to put something back in the position it was removed from. It can also refer to the act of substituting something or someone with another that serves a similar function or purpose. Replace can also mean to fill the role of or take over a particular task or duty from another.
Webster Dictionary
Replaceverb
to place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like
Replaceverb
to refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed
Replaceverb
to supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document
Replaceverb
to take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of
Replaceverb
to put in a new or different place
Etymology: [Pref. re- + place: cf. F. replacer.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Replace
rē-plās′, v.t. to place back: to put again in a former place, condition, &c.: to repay: to provide a substitute for: to take the place of.—adj. Replace′able.—ns. Replace′ment, act of replacing: the removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more; Replac′er, a substitute; Car′-replac′er, a device on American railways for replacing derailed wheels on the track.—Replacing switch, a pair of iron plates fitting over the rails, used as a bridge to replace on the track derailed railway stock.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'replace' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3014
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'replace' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2872
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'replace' in Verbs Frequency: #206
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of replace in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of replace in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of replace in a Sentence
These will also help to replace lost salts, including potassium and other substances.
Nobody's really managed to make a movie, I think, as good as what this movie was for the time, until something comes along to replace it, I think it's firmly entrenched in movie classic history.
The loss of Haji Iman will be massive. Although (Islamic State) ... has a strong system in place to replace key leaders it still takes time to readjust, he was fully aware of their finances, and key leadership decisions were made with Haji Iman being consulted.
We're not trying to replace doctors.
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
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- بدل, استبدلArabic
- reemplaçarCatalan, Valencian
- nahraditCzech
- ersetzenGerman
- αντικαθιστώGreek
- anstataŭigiEsperanto
- reemplazarSpanish
- asendamaEstonian
- korvataFinnish
- remplacerFrench
- kicserélHungarian
- rimpiazzare, sostituire, riporreItalian
- 取り換えるJapanese
- 대치Korean
- whakakapiMāori
- vervangenDutch
- erstatte, erstatta, avløyseNorwegian Nynorsk
- avløyse, erstatte, avløseNorwegian
- zastąpićPolish
- substituirPortuguese
- înlocui, substituiRomanian
- заменить, заместить, замещать, заменятьRussian
- zamijenitiSerbo-Croatian
- byta, byta ut, byta mot, ersättaSwedish
- thay thếVietnamese
- 更換Chinese
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