Displace
[dɪs'pleɪs] or [dɪs'ples]
Definition
(verb.) cause to move, usually with force or pressure; 'the refugees were displaced by the war'.
(verb.) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; 'The boss fired his secretary today'; 'The company terminated 25% of its workers'.
Inputed by Cornelia--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
(v. t.) To crowd out; to take the place of.
(v. t.) To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
(v. t.) To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.
Typist: Nadine
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Remove, dislodge, put out of place, change the place of.[2]. Depose, oust, dismiss, discharge, cashier, eject from office.
Typist: Terrence
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PLACE]
Checker: Patrice
Definition
v.t. to put out of place: to disarrange: to remove from a state office or dignity.—adj. Displace′able.—n. Displace′ment a putting out of place: the difference between the position of a body at a given time and that occupied at first: the quantity of water displaced by a ship afloat.
Checked by Elaine
Examples
- When I became Joe's 'prentice, Orlick was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him; howbeit, he liked me still less. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If a machine is made that will in an hour do the work that formerly required several days’ hand labor that machine is certain to displace that hand labor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Someone may have shaken the box and displaced it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She began to arrange a locket-ribbon about my neck, she displaced and replaced the comb in my hair; while thus busied, Graham entered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr. Shepard went on to state that the chemical meters were gradually displaced, and that on September 1, 1898, there were on the system 5619 mechanical and 4874 chemical. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The truth seems to be that a long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life, or whatever it may be called. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Free chlorine is heavier than air, and hence when it leaves the exit tube it settles at the bottom of the jar, displacing the air, and finally filling the bottle. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Keep a pie pan filled with water in the ventilator for moisture and keep two or three moist sponges in the egg drawer, displacing a few eggs for the purpose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The new love was displacing her already from her place as first in his heart. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In doing so, she displaces the mother's dress, but quickly readjusts it over the wounded and bruised bosom where the baby has been lying. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typed by Carla