Repaid vs Relaid - What's the difference?
repaid | relaid |
(repay)
To pay back.
(relay)
(by extension) A new set of anything.
* Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
(athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. Most common events are 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter competitions.
(electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
(obsolete, intransitive, hunting) To release a new set of hounds.
To pass on or transfer (information).
As verbs the difference between repaid and relaid
is that repaid is (repay) while relaid is (relay).repaid
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(head)Anagrams
* *repay
English
Verb
- I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.
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* *relaid
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*relay
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) , of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.