Lexic.us

Definition of Replace

1. Verb. Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected). "This antique vase can never be replaced"

2. Verb. Take the place or move into the position of. "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"

3. Verb. Put something back where it belongs. "Please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"

4. Verb. Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items. "Synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"

Definition of Replace

1. v. t. To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

Definition of Replace

1. to take the place of [v -PLACED, -PLACING, -PLACES]

Medical Definition of Replace

1. 1. To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like. "The earl . . . Was replaced in his government." (Bacon) 2. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed. 3. To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document. "With Israel, religion replaced morality." (M. Arnold) 4. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of. "This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration." (Whewell) 5. To put in a new or different place. The propriety of the use of replace instead of displace, supersede, take the place of, as in the third and fourth definitions, is often disputed on account of etymological discrepancy; but the use has been sanctioned by the practice of careful writers. Replaced crystal, a crystal having one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles. Origin: Pref. Re- + place: cf. F. Replacer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Replace

repiner repiners repines repining repinings repinned repinning repins repique repiqued

repiques repiquing repkie repla replace (current term) replace (current term) replaceability replaceable replaceable replaced

replacement replacement replacements replacement bone replacement cost replacement fibrosis replacement therapy replacement vector replacer replacers

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