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In computing , replace is a command used on DOS , Microsoft Windows and related computer operating systems that is used to replace one or more existing files or add new files to a target directory . The replace command first appeared in DOS 3.2 and has ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like. 2 (context transitive English) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed. 3 (context transitive English) To supply or substitute ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Replace \Re*place"\ (r?-pl?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + place: cf. F. replacer.] To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like. The earl . . . was replaced in his government. --Bacon. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "to restore to a previous place or position," from re- "back, again" + place (v.). Meaning "to take the place of" is recorded from 1753; that of "to fill the place of (with something else)" is from 1765. Related: Replaced ; replacing .
Usage examples of replace.
Little could have delighted Adams more than the chance to show her the country that meant so much to him, where success had been his, where, as they both appreciated, he had helped change the course of history, and where he was still the accredited American minister, Congress having never bothered to replace him.
After a while I realised that men were trading off upon me, that a steady stream of new men was constantly arriving, presumably to replace the old as their reservoirs grew exhausted.
With one of his customary sighs, a helpless expression that he thought he seemed to be making far too often these days, the portly master moved off to find the errant artillerist, taking with him a second-year student to replace the man.
First they would destroy the indigenous culture and then they would replace it, mimicking the forms they destroyed, assimilating the culture.
The clutter of the overhead with pipes and cables and ducts was cleared out, leaving a circular continuous display screen angling between the bulkheads and the overhead, and the starboard row of consoles that had been the attack center was gone, replaced by five cubicles.
Any assuagement Synnovea might have derived from a warm greeting was abruptly replaced with a morbid sense of gloom.
Living religious traditions begin to degenerate when their followers replace effective spiritual purification, attentional training, and contemplative inquiry with sterile liturgies, ritualistic meditations, and contemplative exercises pursued with the sense that the practitioner already knows their outcome.
If your ballocks must be replaced, the new ones will have every capability of the old.
August 1 a line of scorched and smoking ruins replaced the lately-occupied huts, and along the Foyle went a long column of pikes and standards, marking the retreat of the besieging army.
Replacing the distance and betrayal, hope burned brightly between the Blackstones.
Crassus blamed on the worry of having to earn an extra thousand talents to replace what he had spent on making sure he ended up the consul with the best reputation among the people.
WAS replaced by a burly police officer called Dave shortly after Mr Blaws had departed.
The fans were stl too, although the weather had changed sharply overnight, the thick muggy air blown away and replaced by one of those clear blue-and-white days that were more spring than summer, so that, like Nadine, she wore a sweater buttoned over her blou ise.
Brian Boru had worked long and hard to replace the ancient feud between Owenacht and Dalcassian with amicable relations.
Keith Brassard, Lord Of the Dope Trade, and replaced it with the illusion of complete respectability.