Word Finder - displace

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To put out of place; to disarrange.

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To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.

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To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.

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To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.

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Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.

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(of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

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To repress

Many efforts were made by the Scottish monarchs to displace the Norwegians.

The displace ment of P parallel to Ox is the same K

The concentric castle, with its rings of walls, began to displace the old keep and bailey with.

New items of memory tend to ' displace ' old items of memory (similar to retroactive interference ).

C. Breckinridge with Bragg's right attempting in vain to displace Crittenden's division on high ground above the river.

In France agitation was directed chiefly against the Jesuits, active in the movement to displace ancient local catechisms and liturgies by the Roman texts, to enroll the laity in Roman confraternities, and to induce the bishops to visit Rome more frequently.

This consists of an ordinary dip circle (see Inclinometer) in which the ends of the axle of the needle are pointed and rest in jewelled holes, so that the movements of the ship do not displace the needle.

Thus, in the above example, it is immaterial whether M displaces M" from its salt directly, or whether M first displaces M', which is then used to displace M".

Hence this power can be measured by the torsion which must be applied to the movable coil of the wattmeter to hold it in the normal position against the action of the forces tending to displace it.

More reactive halogens displace less reactive halogens from their solutions eg chlorine displaces bromine.

I want to advocate a new concord to displace the old contention.

Padded rear belt to displace down force when fully loaded, also with snaplock fastener.

A more reactive halogen can displace a less reactive halogen from an aqueous solution of its salt.

In brief, because the helium leaks out, they shrink, and become heavier than the volume of air they displace.

These may well involve high import costs, ecological damage and displace alternative livelihoods.

A more sophisticated, but equally threatening, strategy was to create " woman palaver " in the warri one wished to displace.

Once in your gut they get to work to displace and then devour any opportunistic pathogens.

The effect of turning the pinion V is, of course, to displace the focus both of the solar and stellar spectrographs in the field of the eyepiece, but this d .a displacement is easily restored by From Zeitschr.

This formula for sulphuric acid, however, merely represents such facts as that it is possible to displace an atom of hydrogen and an atom of oxygen in sulphuric acid by a single atom of chlorine, thus forming the compound SO 3 HC1; and that by the action of water on the compound SO 2 C1 2 twice the group OH, or water minus an atom of hydrogen, is introduced in place of the two monad atoms of chlorine S0 2 C1 2 +2HOH = S0 2 (OH) 2 +2HC1.

During Stage 5, while infiltrating Displace International, Sam will come across two guards talking about Prince of Persia Warrior Within.

The settlers are trying to displace the locals from whole swathes of land, and the author blames their failure on a universal apostasy.

Many of the coolies chose to remain in the colony after the termination of their indentures, and began to displace the European country traders.

Brazil has begun to displace diesel fuel with vegetable oils from its huge soybean crop.

Hydropower relies on the building of dams which can change the eco-system, natural flow of water and even displace wildlife and entire communities of people.

Sometimes you may think your kids make you upset but it may actually be the stress you are under at work that you displace onto your kids.

There is, however, a race of giant Star Tulips, sturdy plants 9 inches to 16 inches high, with large flowers of the same delicate style as Maweanus, which, although rare now, will soon quite displace the smaller ones.

Some jewelry manufacturers displace the yin and yang on opposite sides, but the teardrop still moves in a clockwise motion.

Once in the body, they compete with and displace essential minerals such as zinc, copper, magnesium, and calcium, and interfere with organ system function.

The theory advocated by Lavoisier came to displace the phlogistic conception; but at first its acceptance was slow.

No subsequent invader of Malta attempted to displace the Phoenician race in the country districts.

He was a founder and president of the Evangelical Knowledge Society (1847), which, opposing what it considered the heterodoxy of many of the books published by the Sunday School Union, attempted to displace them by issuing works of a more evangelical type.

Support of .tructures.Every structure, as a whole, is maintained in equilibrium by the joint action of its own weIght, of the external load or pressure applied to it from without and tending to displace it, and of the resistance of the material which supports it.

Since identification of spectral lines is a matter of extreme refinement, any cause which may displace lines from their normal places, or otherwise change their features, must be examined scrupulously.

This will evidently happen when the centre of pressure i' is two-thirds from the inner toe b and one-third from the outer toe c'; and if we displace the centre of pressure still further to the right, the condition that the centre of figure of the diagram shall be vertically under that centre of pressure can only be fulfilled by allowing the point j to cross the base to j" thus giving a negative pressure or tension at the inner toe.

Little conspiracies were got up to displace him, and might have succeeded but for an unconquerable dread of the weapon that destroyed Peel.

The net result of the county council elections in the spring of 1899 was to displace, except in some northern counties, nearly all the men who had hitherto done the local business.

The effect of increased security has been largely to displace crime onto the streets, so violent robbery is on the increase.

By volume, the biodiesel produced from the waste vegetable oil could displace just under 0.6% of this diesel.

It is not to be supposed that there are any actual bonds of union between the atoms; graphic formulae such as these merely express the hypothesis that certain of the atoms in a compound come directly within the sphere of attraction of certain other atoms, and only indirectly within the sphere of attraction of others, - an hypothesis to which chemists are led by observing that it is often possible to separate a group of elements from a compound, and to displace it by other elements or groups of elements.

Nevertheless, whatever his chief motive may have been, whether to displace Oxford as leader of the party, to strengthen his position and that of the faction in order to dictate terms to the future king, or to reinstate James, Bolingbroke, yielding to his more impetuous and adventurous disposition, went much further 1 Berwick's Mem.

For the virtual work of two equal anc opposite forces will cancel in any displacement which is commor to the two surfaces; whilst, if one surface be fixed, the displace ment of that point of the rolling surface which was in contact with the other is of the second order.

The orthodox subjects of Theodoric were suspicious of their ruler; and many would gladly have joined in a plot to displace him.

When once a cell is filled up and the slices are warmed through, the liquor from the adjoining cell, which hitherto has been running out of it to the saturators, is turned into the new cell, and beginning to displace the juice from the fresh slices, runs thence to the saturators.

If a current is passed through the fixed coil and movable coil in series with one another, the movable coil tends to displace itself so as to bring the axes of the coils, which are normally at right angles, more into the same direction.

The electric furnaces are likely to displace the crucible furnaces completely, because they work both more cheaply and better.

They are not likely to displace either the open-hearth furnace or the Bessemer converter, because their normal work is only to improve the product of these older furnaces.

Examination of the absorption spectra of coloured compounds shows that certain groupings displace the absorption bands in one direction, and other groupings in the other.

For many years proposals to amalgamate the working of the companies and displace them by a central public authority were put forward from time to time.

In 1857 commenced the exportation of Japan silk, which became so fierce a competitor with Bengal silk as gradually to displace it in favour; and the native silk reeled in Bengal has almost ceased to be made, only the best European filatures, produced under the supervision of skilled Europeans, now coming forward.

The halogen of lower atomic weight can displace one of higher atomic weight from its hydrogen compound, or from the salt derived from such hydrogen compound, while, on the other hand, the halogen of higher atomic weight can displace that of lower atomic weight, from the halogen oxy-acids and their salts; thus iodine will liberate chlorine from potassium chlorate and also from perchloric acid.