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- displaced vs replaced - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Consider The stones displaced the water and The stones replaced the water The first may happen when the stones cause the water level to rise, but the water is still in the container The second means the water was removed and stones put in instead Likewise with people - displaced people are still around, but replaced people are gone –
- word choice - Replace with versus replace by - English Language . . .
Workers were replaced by machines - at least 160 results 1 Workers were replaced with machines - 8 results To be honest, I can't say I think there's anything wrong with the "less favoured" versions above, and it would be ridiculous to suggest there's any semantic difference But note that whereas Tom replaced Dick by Harry Tom replaced Dick
- Is with or by the correct word in the phrase: Replaced ________ a . . .
by is usually used to refer to whoever performed the replacement, e g "Replaced by the technician with a new printer" It can also be used to introduce a process, e g "Replaced by getting a new printer"
- grammaticality - replace with vs. replace by in the sense of . . .
String 'x' is replaced with 'y', by the computer, using the algorithm 'By' can refer to the 'agent' of a passive clause 'With' can refer to an 'instrument' (tool), but 'using' is stronger FYI, note the ambiguity here: (because robots can be agents, patients or instruments) Robot A was replaced with Robot B, by Robot C, using Robot D
- They have been replaced by. . . or They have been replaced with. . .
Nevertheless, "replaced with new ones" receives a fairly strong level of support in those instances, particularly in works published in the past century or so On the strength of these results, I wouldn't go so far as to say that "replaced by new ones" is the only acceptable way to express (in passive voice) the idea of replacing something old
- is it possible to provide a single word for describing an item that . . .
goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics as opposed to "durable goods" durable goods Definitions goods, such as most producer goods and some consumer goods, that require infrequent replacement Compare disposable goods, perishables Also called: durables
- replace vs. substitute - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In each case, there is a New and an Old, but the patterns go like this: He replaced Old with New = He substituted New for Old Having two verbs lets you use either order, to suit your rhetorical purposes –
- Noun for something that was superseded or replaced
no longer used because something newer exists : replaced by something newer Examples of obsolete in a sentence: I never had parents, really My mom was gone, my dad was at work or with his girlfriends, we had baby-sitters My parents were obsolete —Jonathan Kozol, Voices From the Future, 1993 The system was made obsolete by their invention
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