repair
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communication
communications
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparō (“renew, repair”).
Inflected forms:
form: repairs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repairing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repaired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repaired
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: repair
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: repair
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: repaired
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: repair
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: repairest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: repaired
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: repairedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: repairs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repaireth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: repaired
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: repair
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: repaired
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: repair
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: repaired
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: repair
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: repairing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repaired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
pos: verb
examples: to repair a house, a road, a shoe, a ship
to repair a shattered fortune
Secret refreſhings, that repair his ſtrength,
Do thou, as thou art wont, repair / My heart with gladness,
gloss: To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
pos: verb
examples: to repair a loss or damage
I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.
gloss: The act of repairing something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I took the car to the workshop for repair.
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.[…]But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
gloss: The act of repairing something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To function in conversation, children must develop the ability to appreciate and respond to listener feedback. This developing awareness is evident in sequences during which children provide repairs in response to indications that a message has not been understood.
The ability to participate in conversational repair sequences constitutes an integral part of the language acquisition process (Gallagher, 1977; Garvey, 1975).
[...] Salmenlinna and Laakso (2020) studied mother–child conversations using a conversation analysis approach and found that children’s repair requests often occurred in situations where expanding the topic was blocked. Similarly, Yoder et al. (1994) found that repair requests from adults who were attuned to the topic at hand were more likely to trigger repair from children.
gloss: The result of repairing something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.
gloss: The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The car was overall in poor repair before the accident. But after the workshop had it for three weeks it was returned in excellent repair. But the other vehicle was beyond repair.
The 1300 class (Nos. 1301-16), one of which was damaged beyond repair in an accident, are Co-Cos, weigh 111 tons and have a top speed of 85 m.p.h.
Thirteen houses were damaged beyond repair, and much of the rest of the town suffered broken windows and lost slates.
Synonyms: amend
correct
fix
fix up
furbish
retrieve
make whole
mend
patch
put to rights
rectify
recondition
reform
refurbish
remediate
remedy
renew
renovate
restore
restrive
revamp
right
Antonyms: aggravate
break
damage
hurt
make matters worse
Related words: improve
reparation
reparative
Derived words: misrepair
photorepair
repairability
repairable
reparable
repairer
repairment
repairosome
right to repair
antirepair
chancel repair liability
credit repair
disrepair
in bad repair
in good repair
mismatch repair cancer syndrome
nonrepair
repair heddle
repairman
repairperson
repair shop
repairwoman
right of repair
self-repair
unrepair
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: riparim
lang: Arabic
word: تَصْلِيح
roman: taṣlīḥ
lang: Arabic
word: إِصْلَاح
roman: ʔiṣlāḥ
lang: Arabic
word: تَرْمِيم
roman: tarmīm
lang: Arabic
word: مَرَمَّة
roman: maramma
lang: Armenian
word: վերանորոգում
roman: veranorogum
lang: Assamese
word: মেৰামতি
roman: meramoti
lang: Azerbaijani
word: təmir
lang: Belarusian
word: рамо́нт
roman: ramónt
lang: Belarusian
word: рэмо́нт
roman: remónt
lang: Belarusian
word: напра́ва
roman: napráva
lang: Bulgarian
word: попра́вка
roman: poprávka
lang: Bulgarian
word: ремо́нт
roman: remónt
lang: Burmese
word: ပြုပြင်ခြင်း
roman: pru.pranghkrang:
lang: Catalan
word: reparació
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 修理
roman: xiūlǐ
lang: Czech
word: oprava
lang: Danish
word: reparation
lang: Dutch
word: reparatie
lang: Esperanto
word: riparado
lang: Estonian
word: remont
lang: Finnish
word: korjaus
lang: Finnish
word: korjaaminen
lang: French
word: réparation
lang: Georgian
word: რემონტი
roman: remonṭi
lang: German
word: Reparatur
lang: Greek
word: επισκευή
roman: episkeví
lang: Greek
word: επιδιόρθωση
roman: epidiórthosi
lang: Hebrew
word: תיקון
lang: Hebrew
word: תִּקּוּן
roman: tikún
lang: Hindi
word: मरम्मत
roman: marammat
lang: Hungarian
word: javítás
lang: Icelandic
word: viðgerð
lang: Icelandic
word: bæting
lang: Icelandic
word: lagfæring
lang: Ido
word: reparo
lang: Indonesian
word: perbaikan
lang: Irish
word: deisiú
lang: Japanese
word: 修理
roman: shūri
lang: Kazakh
word: жөндеу
roman: jöndeu
lang: Khmer
word: ការកែ
roman: kaa kae
lang: Khmer
word: ការសមសែម
roman: kaa sɑɑmsaem
lang: Korean
word: 수리
roman: suri
lang: Kyrgyz
word: ремонт
roman: remont
lang: Lao
word: ການສ້ອມ
roman: kān sǭm
lang: Lao
word: ການສ້ອມແປງ
roman: kān sǭm pǣng
lang: Lao
word: ການສ້ອມແຊມ
roman: kān sǭm sǣm
lang: Latgalian
word: taiseit
lang: Latgalian
word: pruoveit
lang: Latgalian
word: lobuot
lang: Latvian
word: remonts
lang: Lithuanian
word: remontas
lang: Macedonian
word: поправка
roman: popravka
lang: Malay
word: pembaikpulihan
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: reparasjon
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: reparering
lang: Dari
word: تَعْمِیر
roman: ta'mīr
lang: Dari
word: مَرَمَّت
roman: marammat
lang: Dari
word: تَرْمِیم
roman: tarmīm
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تَعْمیر
roman: ta'mir
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مَرَمَّت
roman: marammat
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تَرْمیم
roman: tarmim
lang: Polish
word: naprawa
lang: Portuguese
word: reparo
lang: Portuguese
word: conserto
lang: Portuguese
word: reparação
lang: Romanian
word: reparație
lang: Russian
word: ремо́нт
roman: remónt
lang: Russian
word: почи́нка
roman: počínka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: по̀правак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pòpravak
lang: Slovak
word: oprava
lang: Slovene
word: poprava
lang: Spanish
word: reparación
lang: Swedish
word: reparation
lang: Swedish
word: lagning
lang: Tagalog
word: pag-ayo
lang: Tajik
word: таъмир
roman: ta'mir
lang: Tajik
word: тармим
roman: tarmim
lang: Tajik
word: мараммат
roman: marammat
lang: Thai
word: การซ่อม
roman: gaan-sɔ̂m
lang: Thai
word: การซ่อมแซม
roman: gaan-sɔ̂m-sɛɛm
lang: Turkish
word: tamir
lang: Turkish
word: onarım
lang: Turkish
word: tamirat
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تعمیر
roman: taʼmir
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مرمت
roman: meremet
lang: Ukrainian
word: ремо́нт
roman: remónt
lang: Ukrainian
word: напра́ва
roman: napráva
lang: Urdu
word: تَعْمِیر
roman: ta'mīr
lang: Urdu
word: مَرَمَّت
roman: marammat
lang: Uyghur
word: رېمونت
roman: rëmont
lang: Uzbek
word: remont
lang: Uzbek
word: taʼmir
lang: Vietnamese
word: sửa chữa
lang: Yiddish
word: רעפּאַראַטור
roman: reparatur