Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To put back into a former position or place.
- transitive verb To take the place of or fill the role of.
- transitive verb To provide a substitute for (something broken or unsatisfactory, for example).
- transitive verb To pay back or return; refund.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put again in the former or the proper place.
- To restore (what has been taken away or borrowed); return; make good: as, to
replace a sum of money borrowed. - To substitute something competent in the place of, as of something which has heen displaced or lost or destroyed.
- To fill or take the place of; supersede; be a substitute for; fulfil the end or office of.
- Synonyms To reinstate, reëstablish, restore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
- transitive verb To refund; to repay; to restore.
- transitive verb To supply or substitute an equivalent for.
- transitive verb To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
- transitive verb To put in a new or different place.
- transitive verb (Crystallog.) a crystal having one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
restore to a formerplace , position, condition, or the like. - verb transitive To
refund ; torepay ; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed. - verb transitive To
supply orsubstitute anequivalent for. - verb transitive To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfil the end or office of.
- verb transitive To demolish a building and build a updated form of that building in its place.
- verb transitive, rare To place again.
- verb transitive, rare To put in a new or different place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- verb put something back where it belongs
- verb substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)
- verb take the place or move into the position of
Etymologies
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Examples
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If I include the curly brackets where I instinctively think they should go as shown below it does not replace the $search values with the $replace values.
CodingForums.com steadythecourse 2010
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__frep__ for "field replace" to be used in __replace__, rather than making it a sub-function of __replace__.
Planet XML 2008
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What the hell did the label replace it for? login to post links to videos.
videos.antville.org 2009
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One of the first things that hydrogen fuel cells will replace is laptop batteries (Toshiba is putting one out in 2004).
Hydrogen Cars, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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THE BAD NEWS: The one player the Aggies must replace is a program fixture who will be remembered as one of the best players in school history.
Big West Conference 2010
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"The distinctive thing about Justice Stevens that's going to be hardest to replace is his attention to the individual case and his willingness to decide it in a way that really isn't determined by ideology," said Christopher Eisgruber, a former Stevens law clerk and author of "The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process."
Analysis: White House will find Justice Stevens tough to replace 2010
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Comics writer Mark Evanier is putting together plans to help Wein replace a lot of those comics:
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Henninger: Yeah, well, you know, we talk here, Paul, as though this phrase, "repeal and replace" is just a phrase, as though somehow all this momentum is going to roll back ObamaCare.
Taking the Pledge 2010
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With the battery “locked” inside the Macbook Air; needing a visit to the Apple Store to replace, is really poor design.
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It could, in short, replace the raft of contradictory, costly and sometimes inaccurate polls, censuses and surveys that much of public policy relies on.
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