[ verb ]
■ substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)
e.g.)
・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
→
replace
[ noun ]
■ the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
e.g.)
・replacing the star will not be easy
→
replacement
,
replacing
[ verb ]
■ change the order or arrangement of
e.g.)
・Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word
→
commute
,
permute
,
transpose
[ noun ]
■ complete change in character or condition
e.g.)
・the permutations...taking place in the physical world
→
permutation
[ noun ]
■ the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements
→
permutation
[ verb ]
■ put in the place of another
■ switch seemingly equivalent items
e.g.)
・the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt
・substitute regular milk with fat-free milk
・synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning
→
exchange
,
interchange
,
replace
,
substitute
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