Crossword clues for replace
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Replace \Re*place"\ (r?-pl?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + place: cf. F. replacer.]
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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 a sum of money borrowed.
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To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
With Israel, religion replaced morality.
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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.
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To put in a new or different place.
Note: 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 (Crystallog.), a crystal having one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 an equivalent for. 4 (context transitive English) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of. 5 (context transitive English) To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place. 6 (context transitive rare English) To place again. 7 (context transitive rare English) To put in a new or different place.
WordNet
v. 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"
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" [syn: supplant, supersede, supervene upon]
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" [syn: substitute]
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" [syn: put back]
Wikipedia
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 been included in most versions of MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS. It is also included as a console command in Microsoft Windows.
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.