What's the difference between repay and replace?

Repay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.
  • (v. t.) To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.
  • (v. t.) To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
  • (2) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (3) Several months ago, the man received about $200,000 worth of marijuana from the cartel and delivered it to another dealer, but he could not repay the cartel, according to court papers.
  • (4) Then Greece has another chance.” But the intervention by the IMF will undermine EU leaders who argue Greece must submit to a fresh round of austerity measures to release funds for debt repayments.
  • (5) Dubai World's ability to repay the bond had been seen as a key test of the state's financial health.
  • (6) Taking the evidence to the high court in London two years later, Grant Thornton were able to secure a summary judgment against Viren Rastogi, ordering him to repay $360m.
  • (7) Nonetheless, Blatter was investigated by Swiss police over his attempts in secret to repay more than £1m worth of bribes pocketed by football officials.
  • (8) He was also was ordered to repay more than £37,000 under the 2002 Proceeds of Crime Act or face 15 further months in jail.
  • (9) Of course, saying this even while petitioning for easier repayment on Greece's mountain of debt is just another example of austerity's topsy-turvyism.
  • (10) It has proposed linking repayment of the debt to growth (the only real way of paying creditors and of guaranteeing their rights), and has indicated its desire to implement those structural reforms needed to strengthen an impoverished state left too long in the hands of corrupt elites.
  • (11) Other proposals include a requirement for PPI providers to give consumers a personal quote, clearly setting out the cost of the policy, both on its own and when added to the repayments.
  • (12) You may be able to put some of your mortgage on a repayment basis and some on an interest-only basis.
  • (13) I've got to pay £15 a week [as part of a repayment plan].
  • (14) If that is guaranteed, I am in favour of a delay in the repayment," he said, adding that the delay could be two or three years.
  • (15) Action will be needed, too, to mitigate the scale of loan repayment.
  • (16) Last Monday, INM negotiated a standstill agreement with its bondholders which gave the company another six weeks to repay a €200m debt.
  • (17) Conversely, having no credit history can be just as troublesome as having a poor rating: without a history of spending and repayments, a bank may be less willing to loan you money.
  • (18) Hours after Greece’s bailout programme with its creditors expired and the country became the first in the developed world to miss an IMF loan repayment, Greek pensioners without debit cards were at last able to withdraw some cash.
  • (19) However, if you knew how you planned to pay off £70,000, and wanted to run £30,000 on a repayment basis, moving from 4.3% to 2.89% would cut the cost from £665 to £563 a month.
  • (20) Greece missed a payment to the International Monetary Fund last week and the clock will tick down to 20 July when Greece must repay €3.5bn to the ECB – the final deadline, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Replace


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
  • (v. t.) To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
  • (v. t.) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
  • (v. t.) To put in a new or different place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
  • (2) This may be due to efficient replacement of Leu by Phe at CUC (and, probably, CUU) codons throughout the genome.
  • (3) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (4) We recently demonstrated that functional change in SSI was possible simply by replacing the amino acid residue at the reactive P1 site (methionine 73) of SSI.
  • (5) Analogues of [Orn6]-SP6-11 have been synthesized in which the Met11 residue is replaced by glutamate gamma-alkylesters.
  • (6) In fact, the addition of conditioned medium obtained by 48 hr preincubation of isolated monocytes with 10% PF-382 supernatant (M-CM2) or the concomitant addition of supernatant from PF-382 cells (PF-382-CM) and from unstimulated monocytes (M-CM1) are capable of fully replacing the presence of monocytes in the BFU-E assay.
  • (7) Major plasma metabolites of quazepam were 2-oxoquazepam (OQ), obtained by replacement of S by O,N-desalkyl-2-oxoquazepam (DOQ), and 3-hydroxy-2-oxoquazepam (HOQ) glucuronide.
  • (8) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
  • (9) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
  • (10) I f you haven’t got a family, you need that replaced in some way, that’s the most important thing you can do for someone in care,” says 24-year-old Chloe Juliette, herself a care leaver.
  • (11) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
  • (12) Replacement of Na+ by K+ or Li+ did not alter uptake, whereas replacement of Cl- by HCO-3 or gluconate- reduced uptake by approximately 40%.
  • (13) He underwent a mitral and aortic valve replacement, followed by a complicated postoperative course.
  • (14) Substitution of NaCl in the extracellular medium by sucrose, LiCl, or Na2SO4 had no effect on glutamate stimulation of [3H]dopamine release; however, release was inhibited when NaCl was replaced by choline chloride or N-methyl-D-glucamine HCl.
  • (15) C. parasitica mutant strains deficient in the production of endothiapepsin (eapA-) were constructed using a gene-replacement strategy.
  • (16) Replacement of vinyl groups with bulkier substituents (hydroxyethyl or acetyl groups) decreases holoenzyme stability and catalytic activity.
  • (17) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
  • (18) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
  • (19) The rate of indole production is increased about 4-fold when the aminoacrylate produced is converted to S-(hydroxyethyl)-L-cysteine by a coupled beta-replacement reaction with beta-mercaptoethanol.
  • (20) Ultrastructural study of the uterine lesion demonstrated smooth muscle cells with only a few "autophagic" facuoles to cells nearly replaced by lysosomes.