repair

English Online Dictionary. What means repair‎? What does repair mean?

English

Etymology 1

Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparō (“renew, repair”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/, /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Verb

repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)

1. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
2. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:repair

Derived terms

• repairable, reparable
• repairer

Translations

Noun

repair (countable and uncountable, plural repairs)

1. The act of repairing something.
2. The result of repairing something.

3. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.

Derived terms

Related terms

• reparation
• reparative

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English repairen (“to return”), from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare (“to return to one's country”), from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repatriate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/, /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Noun

repair (plural repairs)

1. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
2. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.

Translations

Verb

repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)

2. To transfer oneself to another place.

Derived terms

• repatriate

Translations

Etymology 3

From re- +‎ pair.

Alternative forms

• re-pair

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈriːpɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈriːpɛɚ/

Verb

repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)

2. To pair again.

Further reading

• “repair”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “repair”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “repair”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “repair”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Rapier, pairer, rapier