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Displace vs Decentre - What's the difference?

displace | decentre |

As verbs the difference between displace and decentre

is that displace is to move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland while decentre is to remove the centre from.

displace

English

Verb

(displac)
  • To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

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    decentre

    English

    Verb

    (decentr)
  • To remove the centre from.
  • (optics) To place away from the centre; to make eccentric.
  • To displace from the centre.
  • *2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 14:
  • *:The Saidian critique was part of a great sea change, a conscious attempt to ‘decentre ’ Europe or even to ‘provincialize’ it.

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