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REPLACING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another

Example:

replacing the star will not be easy

Synonyms:

replacement; replacing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("replacing" is a kind of...):

commutation; exchange; substitution (the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "replacing"):

novation ((law) the replacement of one obligation by another by mutual agreement of both parties; usually the replacement of one of the original parties to a contract with the consent of the remaining party)

pitching change (replacing a pitcher in baseball)

supersedure; supersession (act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior)

displacement; supplanting (act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics)

Derivation:

replace (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected))

replace (take the place or move into the position of)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb replace

Credits

 Context examples: 

Normally, new cells form as you need them, replacing old cells that die.

(Cancer in Children, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Five-prime recombinations of MCF2 delete N-terminal codons, producing activated oncogenic variant; the upstream replacing sequence, URS, is derived from D15S93 at 15q15-q23.

(DBL Oncoprotein, NCI Thesaurus)

It involves removing the cloudy lens and replacing it with an artificial lens.

(Cataract, NIH: National Eye Institute)

By replacing guanine, dezaguanine incorporates into DNA and inhibits de novo purine synthesis, thereby inducing cell death.

(Dezaguanine, NCI Thesaurus)

Normally, your body forms new cells as you need them, replacing old cells that die.

(Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Replacing the beta-lactam sulfur atom for an oxygen atom and the presence of the methyltetrazolethio moiety and the para-hydroxyphenylmalonyl group, increases the antibacterial activity of moxalactam.

(Moxalactam, NCI Thesaurus)

“That's the Till!” observed Miss Mowcher, standing at the chair again, and replacing in the bag a miscellaneous collection of little objects she had emptied out of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Issue associated with replacing an older operation system to an up-to-date operation system.

(Operating System Version or Upgrade Problem Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

We also observed that replacing these sugars with non-caloric artificial sweeteners leads to negative changes in fat and energy metabolism.

(Artificial Sweeteners Can Still Lead to Obesity, Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers have been trying to improve cooling technology by replacing these gases with solid magnetic materials, such as gadolinium.

(Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners, University of Cambridge)