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Definition of Repair |
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Repair
To return. To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety. The act of repairing or resorting to a place. Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort. To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage. Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city. Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair. Related Definitions: Act, After, Amends, An, Are, As, Ass, Bad, Betake, Book, By, Church, City, Collected, Condition, Damage, Decay, Destruction, Dilapidation, Equivalent, For, Fortune, Go, Good, Haunt, House, In, Indemnify, Injury, Is, Loss, Make, Mend, Of, One, Or, Out, Partial, Perfectness, Place, Renew, Repair, Repairing, Reparation, Resort, Resorting, Respect, Restoration, Restore, Return, Road, Safety, Sanctuary, Self, Shattered, Ship, Shoe, Sound, Soundness, State, Supply, The, To, Waste, Which, With |
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Repair Quotations
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. Samuel Johnson Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. George Washington The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. Douglas Adams |
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Repair Translations
repair in Afrikaans is regmaak repair in Danish is reparere repair in Dutch is verhelpen, herstellen, repareren repair in German is ausbessern, Ausbesserung {f}, reparieren repair in Italian is riparazione, accomodare repair in Latin is renovo, restituo repair in Portuguese is reparo repair in Spanish is reparar, compostura repair in Swedish is laga, reparera |
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