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Replace vs Repairing - What's the difference?

replace | repairing |

As verbs the difference between replace and repairing

is that replace is to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like while repairing is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun repairing is

the act by which something is repaired; a mending.

replace

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(replac)
  • To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
  • When you've finished using the telephone, please replace the handset.
    The earl...was replaced in his government. — .
  • To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
  • You can take what you need from the petty cash, but you must replace it tomorrow morning.
  • To supply or substitute an equivalent for.
  • I replaced my car with a newer model.
    The batteries were dead so I replaced them
  • * '>citation
  • Next Wednesday, four women and 15 men on the Crown Nominations Commission will gather for two days of prayer and horsetrading to replace Rowan Williams as archbishop of Canterbury.
  • To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.
  • This security pass replaces the one you were given earlier.
    This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. — .
  • To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place.
  • (rare) To place again.
  • (rare) To put in a new or different place.
  • Usage notes

    The propriety of the use of "replace" instead of "displace", "supersede", or "take the place of", as in the fourth definition, has been disputed on account of etymological discrepancy, but is standard English and universally accepted.

    Derived terms

    * replaceable * replacement

    Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs ----

    repairing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is repaired; a mending.
  • * 1800 , James Jones Morgan, Epistolary Correspondence (page 14)
  • he would not consent to raise any part of the money advanced on the gates, notwithstanding the necessity of the repairings , and the conveniences which would ensue to the school from it.