ersetzen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- commute verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
- replace verb To put something new in the place of something old, broken, or lost.
- stead noun The place or role of someone or something, especially when taken over by a replacement, as in "in his stead."
- substitute verb To use one thing or person in place of another.
- substitution noun The act of putting one thing in place of another, or the result of doing so.
- supersede verb To take the place of something older or less effective, so that the earlier version is no longer used or valid.
- supplant verb To take over the position that something or someone else used to have.
Senses
ersetzen is used for these senses in English:
- commute (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
- stead (obsolete) To fill the stead or place of something.
- step in (intransitive) To act as a replacement or substitute.
- substitution The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- supersede (transitive) To take the place of.
- supplant (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
commute — full definition
- verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
- noun The regular journey between home and work.
- verb To reduce a legal penalty or sentence to something less severe.
replace — full definition
- verb To put something new in the place of something old, broken, or lost.
- verb To put something back in its original place.
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