replacing
present participle ofreplace
| 单词 | replacing |
| 释义 | replacing present participle ofreplace replace verb[T] uk/rɪˈpleɪs/us/rɪˈpleɪs/replaceverb[T](CHANGE FOR)B1 to take theplaceof something, or to put something or someone in theplaceof something or someoneelse: Thefactoryreplaced most ofitsworkerswithrobots. Tourism has replacedagricultureas the nation'smainindustry. B1 If you replace somethingbroken,damaged, orlost, youprovidea new one: Ipromisedto replace theplatethat I'ddropped.
Replacing and exchanging
replaceverb[T](PUT BACK)C2 to put something back where it was before: Thelibrarianreplaced thebookscorrectlyon theshelves. Giving, bringing or getting back
Examplesofreplacingreplacing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Science advances byreplacingold theories with new ones that make better predictions. From theCambridge English Corpus Having only one parent might have meant a household necessity ofreplacingthe loss/absence of one parent. From theCambridge English Corpus Clearly, the public health official is notreplacingthe physician; rather, ethicists now realize a need to be in dialogue with both. From theCambridge English Corpus Observe that, afterreplacing, such colours no longer exist. From theCambridge English Corpus Then it is easy to see thatreplacingf by one more copy of e we would get a triangle-free hypergraph of not smaller weight. From theCambridge English Corpus The cost ofreplacingcarbon by growing trees is so high primarily because of the opportunity costs of foregoing agricultural production on prime cropland. From theCambridge English Corpus In only one case do we find a toinfinitive straightforwardlyreplacinga bare infinitive. From theCambridge English Corpus Recall the earlier discussion aboutreplacingthe parts of the frozen individual. From theCambridge English Corpus Cochlear implants are electronic devices that aim atreplacingthe cochlear function. From theCambridge English Corpus The cost-centre-stack profiler extends this idea byreplacingpairs of cost centres with a stack of cost centres. From theCambridge English Corpus Once again,replacingthe continuous score with the dichotomous score for institutional democracy does not change the sign and statistical significance level of media openness. From theCambridge English Corpus The sampling space is enlarged by retaining all parents and all offspring in the population rather thanreplacingparents by new offspring. From theCambridge English Corpus The team working onreplacingthese functions of the hippocampus has copied its behavior, rather than waiting to understand its intricacies. From theCambridge English Corpus The house model eliminates ambiguities of kinship inevitably encountered with attempts to apply descent rules to corporate groups byreplacingthe term lineage with house. From theCambridge English Corpus With an inherent conflict between simplyreplacingprice support with direct payments and controlling the rise in budget costs, what alternatives were available? From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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