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▪ I. replace, v.|rɪˈpleɪs|
[f. re- 5 a + place v., perh. after F. remplacer (1549) or, in late use, replacer (17th c.).]
1. trans. To restore to a previous place or position; to put back again in (or † into) a place.
1595Daniel Civ. Wars iii. xxix, A third..Sweares if they would, he would attempt the thing To chaste th' vsurper, and replace their king. 1622Bacon Hen. VII 32 This princess..made it her design..to see the majesty royal of England once again replaced in her house. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xvi. §12 They..replaced Lambert, and all the rest who had been cashiered by Cromwell, into their own charges again. 1749H. Walpole Corr. (1846) II. 296 The King has consented to give two earldoms to replace the great families of Somerset and Northumberland. 1838De Morgan Ess. Probab. 61 Drawings are made, after each of which the ball is replaced. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1918/2 A bridge by which the wheels of cars are replaced upon the track.
refl.1707Curios, in Husb. & Gard. 352 This Emulation, that Matter always retains, to..replace it self..in the same Figure, which..Nature originally impressed on it.
2. To take the place of, become a substitute for (a person or thing). Freq. in passive, const. by (the new person or thing).
1753A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 53 Though many have plucked a Branch from it, it is always quickly replaced by another. 1756Ld. Barrington in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 383 Sir Edward Hawke, and Captain Saunders..went to replace Admirals Byng and West. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 61 The Moon..goes to replace him [the Sun] there, and appears perpetually above the Horizon. 1823Colebrooke in St. Cape G. Hope 346 The paper [money] would be seasonably replaced by a metallic currency. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. i. iii. (ed. 2) 56 The orchards, also, which in Jersey may be said to replace parks, are not very numerous.
b. Cryst. (See quots.)
1847Webster, Replaced, in mineralogy, a term used when a crystal has one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles. 1878Gurney Crystallogr. 51 A quoin or an edge is said to be replaced, when it is cut off by one or more faces of another simple form.
3. To fill the place of (a person or thing) with or by a substitute.
1765Museum Rust. IV. 173 You must..replace such as have failed, with the best and most likely plants. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. ii. iii, Thou wouldst not replace such extinct Lie by a new Lie. 1853Maurice Proph. & Kings xvi. 269 They talked of replacing buildings of brick with buildings of stone. 1885Watson & Burbury Electr. & Magn. I. 262 Let us replace S by another closed surface.
b. To provide or procure a substitute or equivalent in place of (a person or thing).
1796Southey Lett. fr. Spain (1799) 424 A convent, founded for twenty religious, that has thirty now, should not be permitted to replace ten when they died. 1802E. Parsons Myst. Visit IV. 144, I pity him for the loss of such a treasure as he will not easily replace. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. vi. 71 The natives to the south have lost nearly all their..walrus-lines..and will be unable to replace them till the return of the seal.
4. To return or restore to one. rare—1.
1776Adam Smith W.N. ii. iii. I. 403 Whatever part of his stock a man employs as a capital, he always expects it to be replaced to him with a profit.
Hence reˈplaced ppl. a.; reˈplacing vbl. n.
1865Mansfield Salts 241 The belief..that the replaced or conjugated Hydrogen is the whole Hydrogen of a certain proportion of integral water. 1884Manch. Weekly Times 11 Oct. 5/6 The replacing of the tracery of the cloisters..is..proceeding bay by bay. 1884Knight Dict. Mech., Suppl. 750/2 Replacing Apparatus, for the replacing of derailed rolling stock upon the line.
▪ II. replace, a. rare.|rɪˈpleɪs|
[f. the vb.]
Designed to replace something that is worn out or is being discarded.
1927Daily Tel. 10 May 4/5 The life of the first tracks was about 2,000 miles... The replace tracks..embody such obvious improvements that they will undoubtedly give a much longer life. |