Replace

Definition: Replace

Replace

Verb

1. 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. 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. 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".

4. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "replace" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Synonyms: Replace

Location

Put back, replace; (restore).

Restoration

Restore, put back, place in statu quo; reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall.

Substitution

Verb: subs put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for.

Crosswords: Replace

French (replaces).

What if you can go back in time, and take away all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better (Donnie Darko; writing credit: Richard Kelly)

That gun will replace your tongue (Dead Man; writing credit: Jim Jarmusch)

Well, if I can weld a good spark plug it'll replace the electrode (MacGyver; writing credit: John Gorrie)

You're faster than any man on the planet and, theoretically at least, if something should happen to you I could, if I had a couple of billion dollars and a new brain build another unit to replace you. (Now and Again; writing credit: Michael Angeli)

Do you want to replace me (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

To let love replace all our hate (Higher; performing artist: Creed)

A gardener like that one no one can replace (Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny); performing artist: Elton John)

To replace you as my lover (Love Will Never Do (Without You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Y'all be chasin, I replace them, huh (I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me); performing artist: Jay-Z)

That's why I had to replace you (All I Have; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines (reference)

• Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest As a Scientist and As a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God (reference)

• How to Replace and Install Doors and Windows (reference)

• Richard Tuttle: Replace the Abstract Picture Plane (reference)

• The Missing Truth: Angelic Revelations Replace 16 Centuries of Blind Faith (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• We Can Replace You (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The new pipes that were used to replace the old culvert that inhibited coho and chum salmon from migrating to their spawning grounds. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The beginning of the excavation work to replace the culvert. The culvert if to the left of the flag. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A typical school of the surgeon fish, Acanthurus olivaceus, grazing on algae during the time when filamentous algae were abundant. This period occurred soon after placement of the pipes and the red and green filamentous algae were replace with blue-green algae at a later stage. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Electricians from the 49th Civil Engineer Squadron's Exterior Electric Shop, Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., replace outdated utility-pole cross arms. The airmen are replacing the old T-arms with more stable and efficient polymer arms. Phillip Trujillo, 49.

A look at the new Defense Department common access card. With an 32 kilobyte embedded computer chip, magnetic stripe and two bar codes, the "Smart Card" will eventually replace the standard military identification card. (File photo).

A retirement home will soon replace a cornfield in Dallas County, Iowa, as the suburb of Grimes grows on the west side of Des Moines. Credit: Lynn Betts.

New homes built next to corn fields replace farmland in Dallas County, Iowa, as suburbs of Clive and Waukee grow on the west side of Des Moines. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Leather-making is an ancient craft, but it's met up with some state-of-the-art technology. Electron beam radiation, we've found, can replace the salt solutions now used to kill bacterial growth-much to the benefit of the environment. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Scene in Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa, during salvage efforts, circa late March or early April. The view looks about northwestward. In the foreground are improvised shear legs and purchase for handling guns, carriages and other heavy weights removed from the wrecks. This arrangement was used both in landing materials and later in embarking it on USS Monongahela for transit home. The bow of the German gunboat Eber is at left, by the shear legs. USS Trenton is in the center, with the sunken USS Vandalia alongside. Vandalia's smokestack has been removed to replace that of USS Nipsic, which is probably the ship in the right distance. In the left distance is the German gunboat Adler, on her side in shallow water. Credit: NAVY.

Berthed at the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, Seattle, Washington, circa April 1949. She had recently attached to the Center to replace USS PC-786 in training Seattle-area Naval Reservists. Other ships assigned to the Seattle facility's "fleet" included USS Rombach (DE-364), USS Puffer (SS-268) and two small landing craft. Photograph released for publication by 13th Naval District PIO on 13 April 1949. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social. (reference)

This new convention will likewise replace the provisional regulations in force. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He asked himself what should replace it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Again, many normal cells are able to replace themselves. (references)

This will help replace those you have lost through diarrhea. (references)

Attempts to replace antibodies may be rational in this situation. (references)

Business

Zhu Rongji was selected to replace Li as Premier. (references)

The Taiwan Army plans to replace its existing UH1H helicopters. (references)

PIA will also have to replace it aging fleet of Fokker F-27 aircraft. (references)

Children

New Zealand

The Human Rights Amendment Act passed in 1999 introduced a new standard for government compliance to replace the exemption for government that expired during the year. (references)

Ghana

In many instances, when a Trokosi woman dies, years if not decades after she has completed her service and resumed her life in the village, her family is expected to replace her with another young girl, thus continuing the association of the family to the shrine from generation to generation. (references)

Civil Liberties

Yugoslavia

However, no law to replace it had been enacted by year's end. (references)

Economic History

Senegal

Plans are to replace the existing railroad with a wider-railed network. (references)

Eq. Guinea

The CEMAC countries agreed to replace the ICN with a value added tax (VAT) in 1999. (references)

Vietnam

US$ 200 million to replace and upgrade its existing oil and gas production facilities. (references)

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

The Constitution grants the President of the Republic the power to replace the head of the court once a new parliament is in place. (references)

Croatia

This legislation enabled Chief State Prosecutor Radovan Ortynski to begin to renominate or replace the chiefs of municipal and county prosecutors' offices. (references)

Turkey

In January the Constitutional Court published the detailed reasoning of its decision in the Official Gazette and gave Parliament 12 months to replace the provision. (references)

Minorities

Mauritania

In 1999 the National Assembly approved educational reforms to replace the separate track Arabic-French system of education, which had been in place for 20 years, with a unified system for all citizens in which both French and Arabic would be the languages of instruction for all students. (references)

Political Economy

Indonesia

The Chief of Indonesia's Police, Bimantoro, refused and Wahid tried to replace him. (references)

Sudan

The bank management declared the strike illegal and hired new employees to replace the striking workers. (references)

Political Rights

Saint Kitts and Nevis

PAM alleged that the ruling party dismissed or demoted many PAM supporters from their jobs in order to replace them with its own supporters. (references)

Fiji

The amended Constitution also contained an alternate vote system for elections to the lower house to replace the winner takes all system of the previous constitution. (references)

Morocco

On September 15, 2000, indirect elections were held to replace, for the first time since the body's inception, one third of the 270 seats in the Chamber of Counselors. (references)

Trade

Taiwan

Plans to replace the HCF have been slowed by the lack of progress on Taiwan's WTO accession. (references)

Laos

THE LAO GOVERNMENT IS EXPECTED TO INTRODUCE A VALUE ADDED TAX, WHICH WILL REPLACE THE TURNOVER TAX, BY 2002. (references)

Greece

Greece is member of the WTO and the EU, and will introduce the EURO to replace the Greek drachma on January 1, 2002. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Add extra salt to your food to replace what your body loses in perspiration. (references)

Singapore

To facilitate regional travel, it is advisable to replace any passport that has less than six months validity. (references)

Chad

Avoid alcoholic beverages and (for some) increase salt intake in food to replace what is lost in perspiration. (references)

Women

Guyana

A magistrate then evaluates the case and decides whether to replace interim orders with permanent orders. (references)

Croatia

Legislation passed in autumn 2000 created a specific Penal Code provision for family violence to replace inadequate existing provisions, and to direct that perpetrators of family violence, in addition to being punished, be placed under supervision and receive psychiatric treatment. (references)

Worker Rights

Djibouti

Workers rarely protest, mainly due to fear that others willing to accept the risks may replace them. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "replace": background replace ♦ controlled replace ♦ global search and replace ♦ impossible to replace ♦ partial replace ♦ replace mode ♦ replace string ♦ replace the handset ♦ replace the receiver ♦ text replace ♦ to replace the receiver ♦ unconfirmed replace. Additional references.

Ending with "replace": hard-to-replace, sample-replace, search-and-replace.

Afrikaans

vervang (substitute, take the place of). (various references)

Albanian

rivendos (re establish, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recuperate, redintegrate, redress, re-edify, reinstate, rejuvenate, renew, repair, reproduce), zëvendësoj (act for, commute, cover, deputize, displace, double, interchange, make up for, pre empt, substitute, supersede, supplant, understudy), kthej (bandy, bend, bow, bring back, convert, disgorge, fold in, give back, head off, lift down, restore, return, slew, throw back, transform, transit, turn, turn aside, turn down), i zë vendin (displace, replaceable, supplant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حل محل (dig out, displace, oust, subrogate, supersede), ‏إستبدل (change, commute, displace, exchange, stand in, subrogate, substitute), ‏أعاده الي مكانه (snub), ‏رجعه الي مكانه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

заменям (commute, exchange, substitute, supersede, trade, trade off), поставям пак на мястото, полагам (lay, place, put, put forth, put out, repose, rest, run), подменям (substitute). (various references)

Chinese 

當 (adequate, at or in the very same..., during, equal, fitting, just at, manage, match equally, obstruct, on the spot, ought, proper, represent, right, same, should, suitable, to act as, to be, to pawn, when, withstand), 接替 (take over), 替换 (replacing), 更換 , 代替 (instead), 代 (age, dynasty, era, generation, geological era, period, substitute). (various references)

Czech

nahradit (compensate, make good, make up for, recompense, recover, redeem, refund, reimburse, repay, retrieve, substitute, supersede, supplant, supply). (various references)

Danish

erstatte en ansat , erstatte en tjenestemand - BTB (to replace an official), baggrundserstatning (background replace, unconfirmed replace), delvis udskiftning (partial replace), erstat-modus (replace mode, typeover mode), erstatning af tekst (text replace), erstatning med bekræft (controlled replace), aftage og paalaegge garnering (to remove and to replace floor ceiling), erstatningsstreng (replace string), udskifte maskindele (to release and to replace parts of an engine), globalt søg og erstat (global search and replace), laegge roeret paa (to hangup, to replace the receiver), omplacere en bog (replace a book), overskriv-modus (replace mode, typeover mode), placere modellen i formen (replace pattern in mould), erstatning uden bekræft (background replace, unconfirmed replace). (various references)

Dutch

inboeten (substitute), in de plaats stellen van (substitute). (various references)

Esperanto

anstataŭigi (substitute). (various references)

Farsi 

چیزی راتعویض کردن , جایگزین کردن (Sub), جابجاکردن (Dislocate, Displace, Heave, Reposit, Substitute, Supplant, Unhorse). (various references)

Finnish

vaihtaa (change, exchange, interchange, swap, switch, to exchange), uusia (recondition, renew, renovate, repeat), korvata (balance, compensate, substitute), asettaa paikalleen (place in position), asettaa jälleen paikalleen. (various references)

French

replacer, remplacer (renew). (various references)

German

auswechseln (change, change round, exchange, interchange, permute, substitute, swap, to replace). (various references)

Greek 

αντικαθιστώ (relieve, replace by / with, spell, stand in for, substitute, supersede, supplant). (various references)

Hebrew 

למלא מקום (fill in, relieve, spell, sub, substitute), לעמוד אחרי (substitute), לחלף (change, substitute), להחליף (alternate, change, commute, exchange, interchange, pinchhit, substitute, switch, swop, trade in), להחזיר למקומו. (various references)

Hungarian

visszatesz (put back, reinstate, relaid, resettle, to put back, to put in, to reinstate, to relay, to remit), visszarak (put back, relaid, reset, to relay, to reset, to resettle), pótol (complement, implement, make good, make up for, to complement, to make good, to make up, to recover, to refill, to reinstate, to substitute, to supersede, to supplant, to supplement). (various references)

Indonesian

menggeser (rub against, shift, transfer), menggantikan (discontinue, substitute for, succeed), mengganti (commute, displace), mengasak (insist, jam urge, supplant). (various references)

Italian

sostituire (displace, relieve, stand in for, substitute, substitute for, supersede, take the place of, understudy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

リビア山猫 (liberation, libido, Libyan wildcat, lift, liftback, living, living kitchen, living room, living room set, living stock, makeover, rebate, reboot, reference, reference guide, referencer, refinance, refine, reflation, reflect, reflection, reflective, reform instructor, reform plan, refrain, refresh, refreshment, repeat, repeater, replicate, replication, reply, repression, reprint, reproduction, revision, rib, rib roast, rift, ripple, rivet, updating), 代置 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リプレース , だいち (earth, eminence, ground, plateau, substitute land, tableland, the solid earth, theland). (various references)

Korean 

대체하십시요. (various references)

Manx

cur er ash ayns ynnyd, cur ayns ynnyd jeh (replacement, substitute), cur ayns oik peiagh elley. (various references)

Papiamen

remplasá (substitute), substituí (substitute). (various references)

Pig Latin

eplaceray.(various references)

Portuguese

restituir (carry back, give back, refund, repay), repor, replacao, reembolsar (refund, reimburse, repay), substituir (displace, exist, relay, relieve, renew, shift, stand in for, substitute, supersede, supplant, take the place of), substitua, pôrnolugarde (substitute), fazersubstituir (substitute), devolver (devolve, give back, refund, remand, render, retort, return). (various references)

Romanian

restitui (deliver up, give back, pay back, refund, render, restore, return), repune (reinstate, reset), reaşeza, suplini, substitui (substitute), schimba (alter, change, chop, commute, convert into, exchange, fashion, improve, interchange, modify, renew, shift, substitute, supersede, supplant, swap, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn, vary), înlocui (change, commute, cover, displace, do duty for, make good, shift, supersede, supplant). (various references)

Russian 

сменять (relay, relieve), возмещать (atone, compensate, make good, make good to, make up, recoup, recoupe, redeem, reign, reimburse, reimbursed, repair, repay), замещать (act for, fill in, fill out, override, stand in for, stand up to, subbed, subrogate, substitute, supply), заменять замена (substitute), заменять (commute, interchange, make into, shift into, substitute for, supersede, take the place of, understudy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zameniti (commute, exchange, fill in, mistake, substitute, supersede, supplant, switch, switch over), vratiti na mesto (put back), vratiti (bring back, give back, hand back, pay back, reclaim, refund, remand, render, requite, restore, return, send back, take back, turn back), smeniti (change, dismiss, relieve), nadomestiti, izmeniti (alter, change). (various references)

Spanish

sustituir (substitute, supersede). (various references)

Swedish

ersätter, ersätta (compensate, displace, double for, indemnify, pay, recompense, recoup, reimburse, remunerate, renew, repay, satisfy, supersede), efterträda (follow, succeed, supersede), avlösa (relieve), återställa (heal, redecorate, redintegrate, re-examine, reset, restore, restoring), återanskaffa. (various references)

Turkish

yerini tutmak (compensate), yerini almak (cut in, oust, relay, sit in for, subrogate, substitute, supersede, supplant, take one's place), yerine koymak (bestow, case, clap, posit, put back, put up, relay, slot into, spot), yerine geçmek (displace, stand for, sub, subrogate, substitute, succeed, supersede, supplant, take smb.'s place, take the place of), yerine bakmak (act for smb., hold the fort, sit in for), yenisiyle değiştirmek, vekâlet etmek (act for smb., deputize, represent, stand in, stand in for, stand proxy), geri ödemek (pay back, refund, reimburse), değiştirmek (alter, alternate, amend, change, commute, convert, disguise, diversify, doctor, exchange, falsify, garble, inflect, interchange, intersperse, juggle with, metamorphose, modify, recast, revise, shed, shift, specialize, swap, switch, switch to, swop, transmute, unmake, vary), ahizeyi yerine koymak. (various references)

Turkmen 

tдzelenmek (renew, substitute), tдzelemek (renew, renovate). (various references)

Ukrainian

ставити назад, заміняти (substitute, supersede), повертати (bend, bring back, carry back, disgorge, hand back, reimburse, repay, restore, return, turn), поповнювати (eke out, recruit, renew). (various references)

commuta, commutabit, commutabuntur, commutans, commutata, commutati, commutatus, commutaverunt, commutavit, commuto, restituo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "replace": replaceable, replaced, replacement, replacements, replacer, replacers, replaces. (additional references)

Words ending with "replace": fireplace, preplace. (additional references)

Words containing "replace": fireplaced, fireplaces, irreplaceabilities, irreplaceability, irreplaceable, irreplaceableness, irreplaceablenesses, irreplaceably, preplaced, preplaces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Replace" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ceplac, Railaco, Redlake, Relache, replacer, replane, replate, repleve. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: percale.

-1 letter: carpel, cereal, leaper, parcel, placer, relace, repeal.

-2 letters: caper, carle, clear, clepe, crape, creel, creep, crepe, lacer, laree, leper, pacer, paler, parle, peace, pearl, perea, place, recap, repel.

-3 letters: acre, alec, alee, aper, cape, care, carl, carp, cepe, cere, clap, crap, earl, lace, leap, lear, leer, pace, pale, pare, peal, pear, peel, peer.

+1 letter: parceled, percales, praelect, preclean, preclear, preplace, replaced, replacer, replaces.

+2 letters: calipered, fireplace, parcelled, parfleche, percaline, percolate, praelects, precancel, precleans, preclears, prelacies, preplaced, preplaces, reclasped, replacers, replicase, replicate, specialer.

+3 letters: altarpiece, callipered, carpellate, clepsydrae, coleoptera, epicentral, everyplace, fireplaced, fireplaces, leprechaun, operculate, parfleches, percalines, perceptual, percolated, percolates, praelected, precancels, precleaned, precleared, predicable, preethical, premedical, prevalence, recappable, receptacle, recoupable, replicable, replicases, replicated, replicates, screenplay, superclean, superscale.