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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
represent

verb

  • Take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to.
    • usage: "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin"
  • Express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol.
    • usage: "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize"
  • Be representative or typical for.
    • usage: "This period is represented by Beethoven"
  • Be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute.
    • usage: "I represent the silent majority"
  • Serve as a means of expressing something.
    • usage: "The flower represents a young girl"
  • Be characteristic of.
    • usage: "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue"
  • Form or compose.
    • usage: "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army"
  • Be the defense counsel for someone in a trial.
    • usage: "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant"
  • Create an image or likeness of.
    • usage: "The painter represented his wife as a young girl"
  • Play a role or part.
    • usage: "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master"
  • Perform (a play), especially on a stage.
    • usage: "we are going to stage `Othello'"
  • Describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality.
    • usage: "He represented this book as an example of the Russian 19th century novel"
  • Point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance.
    • usage: "our parents represented to us the need for more caution"
  • Bring forward and present to the mind.
    • usage: "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason"
  • To establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets. ).
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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