What does replace mean?

Definitions for replace
rɪˈpleɪsre·place

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. 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"

  2. 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"

  3. 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"

  4. 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

  1. replaceverb

    To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

  2. 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.

  3. replaceverb

    To supply or substitute an equivalent for.

  4. replaceverb

    To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfil the end or office of.

  5. replaceverb

    To demolish a building and build a updated form of that building in its place.

  6. replaceverb

    To place again.

  7. replaceverb

    To put in a new or different place.

  8. Etymology: Prefix re- + place.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Replaceverb

    to place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like

  2. Replaceverb

    to refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed

  3. Replaceverb

    to supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document

  4. Replaceverb

    to take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of

  5. Replaceverb

    to put in a new or different place

  6. Etymology: [Pref. re- + place: cf. F. replacer.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. 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.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'replace' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3014

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'replace' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2872

  3. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'replace' in Verbs Frequency: #206

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of replace in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of replace in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of replace in a Sentence

  1. Heather Patisaul:

    Because everybody is different, it is impossible to know what the 'right' amount of soy is, but people can certainly go overboard, for people wanting to achieve a reasonably healthy protein intake without experiencing possibly negative effects of soy, there is no need to have soy at every meal or to replace all foods [like milk and cheese] with soy-based ones.

  2. Jack Biltis:

    By accepting cryptocurrencies, you can do it for pennies and at the same time you can transfer money, really, in almost an instant amount of time, so, this new technology is absolutely going to replace what we have now with our inefficient credit cards and banking systems.

  3. Russ Noel:

    They don’t make them like this anymore, a lot of those cars in there, I’ll never replace them probably.

  4. Boris Johnson:

    As COVID becomes endemic, we will need to replace legal requirements with advice and guidance, urging people with the virus to be careful and considerate of others.

  5. Juwan Howard:

    He’s everything when it comes to being a Michigan man, what he’s done on the floor, what he’s done off the floor, with his development, growing as a man, being able to adjust to different cultures, it’s going to be tough to replace a guy like that. He’s irreplaceable.

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