replace
Từ điển Collocation
replace verb
1 take the place of sb/sth; exchange sb/sth
ADV. completely | largely | simply Putting in a new bathroom suite can cost as little as £800 if you are simply replacing an old one. | easily These losses are not easily replaced. | immediately | gradually | eventually
VERB + REPLACE cannot/could not Machines cannot replace people in this work. | can/can't afford to | be built to, be designed to, be intended to, be used to It was built to replace the old Victorian jail. | appoint sb to, elect sb to | be expensive to Halogen lamps give excellent service, but the bulbs are expensive to replace.
PREP. as She replaced Jane Stott as Managing Director. | with We replaced the old television set with a newer one.
2 put sth back in the right place
ADV. carefully, gently
PREP. in She replaced the dress in the wardrobe. | on He carefully replaced the vase on the shelf.
Từ điển 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; supplant, supersede, supervene upon, supercede
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 in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; substitute
the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt
substitute regular milk with fat-free milk
- put something back where it belongs; put back
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
Microsoft Computer Dictionary
vb. To put new data in the place of other data, usually after conducting a search for the data to be replaced. Text-based applications such as word processors typically include search-and-replace commands. In such operations, both old and new data must be specified, and search-and-replace procedures may or may not be sensitive to uppercase and lowercase, depending on the application program. See also search1, search and replace.
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
replaces|replaced|replacing
ant.: remove
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