replace : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: replace	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replace 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" Synonym(s): supplant, replace, supersede, supervene upon, supercede 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" Synonym(s): replace, put back 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"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning" Synonym(s): substitute, replace, interchange, exchange
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Replace \Replace"\ (r?-pl?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + place: cf. F. replacer.] 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. 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.