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Repair vs Replacement - What's the difference?

repair | replacement |

As nouns the difference between repair and replacement

is that repair is the act of repairing something while replacement is a person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

As a verb repair

is to restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.

repair

English

Etymology 1

Coined between 1300 and 1350 from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of repairing something.
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  • The result of repairing something.
  • The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
    • Derived terms
    * disrepair
    Related terms
    * reparation

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
    • to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship
    to repair a shattered fortune
  • * Milton
    • secret refreshings that repair his strength
  • * Wordsworth
    • Do thou, as thou art wont, repair / My heart with gladness.
  • To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
    • to repair a loss or damage
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * repairable / reparable, repairer

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Cognate to repatriate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
    • our annual repair to the mountains
  • * Clarendon
    • The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.
  • A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
  • * Dryden
    • There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transfer oneself to another place.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair .
  • *1850 , , (Jane Eyre)
  • *:I heard the visitors repair to their chambers.
  • *
  • *:That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde. I had nothing more exciting on hand than to wait for word from Von Lindowe. I sincerely hoped that it would not be long, for it is not my forte to sit twiddling my thumbs.
    • Derived terms
    * repatriate

    Etymology 3

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to pair again

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    replacement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
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  • The act of replacing something.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * overreplacement * subreplacement
    See also
    * spare part