move, displace
(verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; “Move those boxes into the corner, please”; “I’m moving my money to another bank”; “The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant”
displace
(verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure; “the refugees were displaced by the war”
displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; “The boss fired his secretary today”; “The company terminated 25% of its workers”
preempt, displace
(verb) take the place of or have precedence over; “live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour”; “discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
displace (third-person singular simple present displaces, present participle displacing, simple past and past participle displaced)
To put out of place; to disarrange.
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
(of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
(psychology) to repress
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*place", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Displaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Displacing.] Etym: [Pref. dis- + place: cf. F. déplacer.]
1. To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
2. To crowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times.
3. To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
4. To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. [Obs.] You have displaced the mirth. Shak.
Syn.
– To disarrange; derange; dismiss; discard.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
