What's the difference between replace and supplant?

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.

Supplant


Definition:

  • (n.) To trip up.
  • (n.) To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
  • (n.) To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is as yet impossible to judge how far routine magnetic resonance imaging will supplant or complement CT in making the initial clinical diagnosis.
  • (2) EUS should not supplant the use of CT scan or ERCP in the differential diagnosis of pancreatic disease, but is rather an adjunct to these studies.
  • (3) Subsequent fecal samples showed a progressive supplantation of E coli by Klebsiella, Enterobacter and Proteus.
  • (4) The aim was to supplant the informal militias, known as the " shabiha ", who were often accused of massacres, with a more disciplined and better armed force.
  • (5) Interview data on some two dozen individuals obtained in the spring of 1982 was increasingly supplemented and supplanted by continued field observation and other techniques of data-gathering through the summer of 1985.
  • (6) The difference in kinetics for reversal between these two treatments suggests that myo-inositol addition overrides a biochemical pathway while Ca2+ addition supplants a phosphoinositide-mediated rise in the cation that may be necessary for anaphase onset.
  • (7) For this reason, puncture of the pouch of Douglas was increasingly--and finally completely--supplanted by laparoscopy.
  • (8) They also confirmed there was no guarantee that the fund will not supplant existing National Health and Medical Research Council funding – which is not quarantined.
  • (9) Tracheostomy is being supplanted by nasotracheal intubation as the preferred means of securing an endangered airway.
  • (10) As further technical refinements improve resolution and sensitivity, color Doppler may eventually supplant angiography as the primary imaging modality in peripheral arterial diagnosis, reserving arteriography for interventional procedures.
  • (11) While in vitro and animal test systems can never fully supplant human studies, they represent our only means for detecting potential carcinogenicity before human exposure has become widespread or long established.
  • (12) There has been a vigorous search for many years for chemical agents that could supplement or even supplant patient-dependent mechanical plaque control and thus reduce or prevent oral disease.
  • (13) Additional studies will be necessary, over extended time periods, to determine whether the bilaminar layer remains a constant feature between the HTR and the surrounding bone or whether this region is gradually supplanted by the ingrowing bone.
  • (14) In this study, they were capable of supplanting conventional sequences in the evaluation of intradural pathology of the spine in the sagittal plane, although conventional sequences were still preferred in the axial plane.
  • (15) Intravascular fetal transfusion has gained widespread acceptance and has supplanted the use of intraperitoneal fetal transfusion in management of severe alloimmune disease in many centers.
  • (16) The procedure has been mainly embraced by the gynecologist and its use in this field has largely supplanted culdoscopy.
  • (17) Currently, MRI's noninvasiveness, sensitivity and multiplanar graphic depiction of the disease process are supplanting the more traditional diagnostic modalities of CT, metrizamide CT, and myelography.
  • (18) The new orally administered antifungal agents ketoconazole and fluconazole have been approved for clinical use and have supplanted amphotericin B in certain situations.
  • (19) The ultimate goal is to develop a plan whereby the formal service providers supplement rather than supplant the care and assistance available from the older person's network.
  • (20) They are reminiscent of current suspicion among Palestinians of Jews seeking today to pray within the Temple Mount compound , harbouring dreams of supplanting the Haram al-Sharif mosques with a third temple.