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replace

verb

  • Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected. )
    • usage: "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.
    • usage: "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"
  • Put something back where it belongs.
    • usage: "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"
  • Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.
    • usage: "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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
  • (v.t.) To put in a new or different place.
  • (v.t.) To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition or the like.
  • (v.t.) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
  • (v.t.) To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
  • (v.t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
fire
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

noun

  • The event of something burning (often destructive. )
    • usage: "they lost everything in the fire"
  • The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy.
    • usage: "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
  • The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke.
    • usage: "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
  • A fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning.
    • usage: "they sat by the fire and talked"
  • Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles. )
  • Feelings of great warmth and intensity.
    • usage: "he spoke with great ardor"
  • Fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking.
    • usage: "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire"
  • A severe trial.
    • usage: "he went through fire and damnation"
  • Intense adverse criticism.
    • usage: "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"

verb

  • Start firing a weapon.
  • Cause to go off.
    • usage: "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
  • Bake in a kiln so as to harden.
    • usage: "fire pottery"
  • Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
    • usage: "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
  • Go off or discharge.
    • usage: "The gun fired"
  • Drive out or away by or as if by fire.
    • usage: "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
  • Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses. )
    • usage: "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
  • Destroy by fire.
    • usage: "They burned the house and his diaries"
  • Provide with fuel.
    • usage: "Oil fires the furnace"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University

(verb) In expert system programming, ordinarily used to describe the "triggering" or "activation" of a rule. A rule is "Fired" "triggered" or "activated" when its conditions have been met, and its "consequents" (resultant facts) are added to the knowledge base.

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