Displace

Definition: Displace

Displace

Verb

1. Take the place of.

2. Force to move; "the refugees were displaced by the war".

3. Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people".

4. Cause to move, 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".

5. Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space".

6. Put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives".

Date "displace" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Note: Displace \Dis*place"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Displaced; present participle verb or noun Displacing.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Mechanical Engineering	To move(displace)a machine part into a wrong position. Source: European Union. (references)
	To alter the position of a machine part in relation to other parts of the same machine. Source: European Union. (references)
	To shift(displace)one of two pieces which perform identical movements, in the direction of their movement, so as to alter the distance between them. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Displace

Synonyms: bump (v), deracinate (v), dislocate (v), dislodge (v), force out (v), move (v), uproot (v). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: misplacing (mechanical engineering).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Arrangement	Verb: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder; muss; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.
Displacement	Verb: displace, misplace, displant, dislodge, disestablish; exile; (seclude); ablegate, set aside, remove; take away, cart away; take off, draft off; lade.
Transference	Send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose; (interchange); displace; throw; drag; mail, post.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Displace one note and there would be diminishment, displace one phrase and the structure would fall. (Amadeus; writing credit: Peter Shaffer;)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	What is communism? : A narrative of the relief community : common property, united labor, and equal rights to all will immediately displace all poverty, vice, and crime of society, and secure to everybody the greatest plenty, purity, and peace (reference) Wireless Users Who Displace Wireline Access Lines: A Survey Study and Analysis, 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This mass of blood can displace brain tissue and cause headaches as well as weakness, confusion, memory loss, and seizures. (references)
		These lesions are formed from groups of tightly packed, abnormally thin-walled, small blood vessels that displace normal neurological tissue in the brain or spinal cord. The vessels are filled with slow-moving or stagnant blood that is usually clotted or in a state of decomposition. (references)
Civil Liberties	Switzerland	Requirements include proof that the foreigner would not displace a citizen from doing the job, that the foreigner would be financially supported by the host organization, and that the country of origin of religious workers also grants visas to Swiss religious workers. (references)
Economic History	Singapore	This makes it difficult to displace existing established Australian, New Zealand and European brands in the market. (references)
	Lebanon	The Amal movement had been organized in mid-1975, at the beginning of the civil war, to confront what were seen as Israeli plans to displace the Lebanese population with Palestinians. (references)
Human Rights	Colombia	From January through April, the AUC mounted a successful offensive to displace the ELN from the northeastern neighborhoods of Barrancabermeja, Santander department. (references)
Worker Rights	Guatemala	Representatives of most organized labor groups criticize these associations, asserting that they do not permit strikes, have inadequate grievance procedures, and are meant to displace genuine, independent trade unions and are employer-dominated. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Displace" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Displace" is used about 160 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	90%	144	26,339
Lexical Verb (base form)	9.38%	15	90,616
Noun (singular)	0.63%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	160	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "displace"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhvendos (carry, dislodge, move, relocate, transpose), zëvendësoj (act for, commute, cover, deputize, double, interchange, make up for, pre empt, replace, substitute, supersede, supplant, understudy), shpërngul (dislodge, rehouse, transfer, transplant), i zë vendin (replace, replaceable, supplant), heq nga posti. (various references)

Arabic		‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ‏حل محل (dig out, oust, replace, subrogate, supersede), ‏عزل من منصب, ‏إقتلع (extirpate, extract, lift, plow, pluck, pull, root, take off, tear, tear out, weed out), ‏إستبدل (change, commute, exchange, replace, stand in, subrogate, substitute), ‏أزاح (bump, dislodge, draw, poke, supplant, unsettle), ‏شرد. (various references)

Bulgarian		премествам (heave, move, offset, remove, shift, shunt, switch over, transfer, translate, translocate, transpose), имам водоизместимост (draw), измествам (dislocate, luxate, offset, oust, supplant, unhorse, unseat). (various references)

Chinese		換置 , 偏移 (Displaced, Displacing). (various references)

Czech		vytlaèit (dislodge, eliminate, press up, squeeze out, supplant), propustit (discharge, dismiss, let off, let out, relegate, remove, sack, turn away, turn off, unbend), přesunout (defer, dislocate, download, hold over), přemístit (manhandle, move, relocate, remove, switch round, transfer, translocate, transpose). (various references)

Danish		forskyde (change the position, faulting, shift, stagger), fejlindstille (misplace). (various references)

Dutch		verstellen (adjust, fix, mend, patch, patch up, put right, repair), verschuiven (adjourn, delay, hold in abeyance, move, postpone), verplaatsen (move, transfer), verdrijven (expel), onjuist instellen (misplace). (various references)

Farsi		تبعیدکردن (Abandon, Deport, Exile, Proscribe), جای چیزی راعوض کردن , جابجاکردن (Dislocate, Heave, Replace, Reposit, Substitute, Supplant, Unhorse). (various references)

Finnish		siirtää (assign, carry forward, convey, dislodge, endorse, graft, hand over, make ... over, move, remove, shift, transfer, transmit, transplant, transport). (various references)

French		déplacer (dislodge). (various references)

German		verschieben (alter, change, defer, delay, dislodge, hold over, leave over, move, postpone, put back, put off, relocate, relocating, remit, ruck up, scrolls, shift, shunt, slant, to displace, to relocate, traffic in), versetzen (flog, hock, level, mix, move, move about, move around, move away, move up, pawn, pop, promote, put, retort, sell, shift, stagger, stand up, to displace, transfer, transplant, transpose). (various references)

Greek		μετατοπίζω (move, shift, transpose), εκτοπίζω (deport, dislocate, dislodge, replace, supersede). (various references)

Hebrew		לתפוס מקום (preoccupy, supplant), ל�"עתיק (remove, shift, transfer). (various references)

Hungarian		elmozdít (dislocate, remove, to abduct, to budge, to dislocate, to displace, to fault, to offset, to rack), elbocsát (disband, discharge, dismiss, fire, give the sack, lay off, remove, send off, to disband, to discard, to dismiss, to lay off, to pay off, to pipe down, to send away, to send off, to shelve, to shop, to turn away, to turn off, to unhand). (various references)

Indonesian		mengganti (commute, replace), memindahkan. (various references)

Italian		spostare (budge, delay, dislocate, move, remove, scrolls, shift). (various references)

Korean		� �치하십시�". (various references)

Manx		scughey (budge, dislodge, dislodgement, displacement, evict, eviction, move, moving, quit, removal, remove, scoot, shift, shift about, shifting), goaill yn ynnyd jeh (stand for, supersede), cur magh (board out, deal, delegate, delegation, dispatch, dispensation, dispense, edition, eject, ejection, emission, emit, evacuate, evacuation, excretion, expulsion, exude, issue, lay out, publication, publish, push out, put out, run out, turn out). (various references)

Norwegian		forskyve (heave), flytte på. (various references)

Pig Latin		isplaceday

Portuguese		deslocar (disjoint, dislocate, edge, fork, luxation, misprint, move, offset, remove, shift, sneak, splay, translocate), afastar (abate, alienate, avert, call away, depart, deviate, dispel, distract, divergence, diverting, do away with, eliminate, estrangement, fend, get rid of, hold off, keep away, keep off, lay off workers, make away, move away, obviate, relegate, remove, repel, retire, rid, separate, wean, withdraw). (various references)

Romanian		destitui (depose, discharge, dismiss, remove), deplasa (dislocate, dislodge, draw, go, misplace, move away, remove, shift, travel, work), transfera (assign, cede, deliver, relegate, remise, shift, sign off, transfer), strãmuta (change, move, remove, shift, transform), sminti (deceive, delude, destroy, distract, harm, hinder, spoil), se deplasa (adjourn, be on the move, move away, remove, travel), muta (change, hitch, move, pan, permute, re-house, remove, shift), înlocui (change, commute, cover, do duty for, make good, replace, shift, supersede, supplant). (various references)

Russian		смещать (depose, dislocate, skew, supersede, translocate, unseat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaturiti (mislay), svrgnuti (depose, oust, throw down, unmake), premestiti (move, shift, transplant, transpose), pomeriti (budge, joggle, move). (various references)

Spanish		desplazar (change the position, misplace, shift, stagger). (various references)

Swedish		rubba (derange, dislocate, dislodge, disorder, disturb, shatter, unbalance, upset), förflytta (dislodge, move, pass, post, relegate, relocate, remove, transfer, transplant, transport), avsätta (assign, depose, deposite, dethrone, dismiss, eject, remove, sell, set aside, set off, unfrock, unseat). (various references)

Turkish		yerine geçmek (replace, stand for, sub, subrogate, substitute, succeed, supersede, supplant, take smb.'s place, take the place of), yerinden etmek (oust, relegate, remove, unseat), yerinden çıkarmak (bring to bay, dislocate, disroot, luxate, splay, unsettle), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

Ukrainian		усувати (abolish, brush aside, castigate, depose, dethrone, eliminate, obviate, preclude, put away, smooth, smooth away, take off, vanish), витісняти (crowd out, cut out, dislodge, edge out, extrude, force out, oust, supersede, supplant), переміщати (heave, relocate, shift). (various references)

Vietnamese		người bị trục xuất ra nước ngo� i (displace person). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	commota, commotae, commotaque, commoti, commotis, commotum, commotus, commoveantur, commoveat, commoveatur, commovebantur, commovebit, commovebitur, commovebo, commovebor, commovebuntur, commovendum, commoventes, commoventur, commovere, commoveretur, commoveri, commoverit, commoverunt, commovet, commovi, commovisti, commovit. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "displace": displaceable, displaced, displacement, displacements, displaces. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Displace" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Diapiacer, dispiace, displacea, displacive, Dizapac, Dysplacia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "displace" (pronounced di'splā"s)
6	-i' s p l ā" s	misplace.
4	-p l ā" s	place, replace.
3	-l ā" s	glace, interlace, lace.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-l-p-s"
	-1 letter: alipeds, clasped, elapids, lapides, palsied, plaices, pleiads, scalped, special, spliced.
	-2 letters: aisled, alcids, aliped, apices, capsid, clades, deasil, decals, dispel, elapid, epical, espial, ideals, ladies, lapsed, lipase, lisped, padles, pedals, placed, places, placid, plaice, plaids, pleads, pleiad, plicae, sailed, salpid, scaled, scaped, sliced, sliped, spaced, spicae, spiced, spiled, splice.
	-3 letters: acids, aides, ailed.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-l-p-s"
	+1 letter: asclepiad, displaced, displaces, inclasped, misplaced, slipcased.
	+2 letters: asclepiads, candlepins, capsulized, despicable, despicably, duplicates, episodical, placidness, septicidal.
	+3 letters: acidophiles, capitalised, cyclopedias, diplomacies, endoplasmic, feldspathic, peccadillos, pediculates, periodicals, placidities, plasticized, predicables, psychedelia, specialised, specialized, spermicidal, supplicated.
	+4 letters: accomplished, cyclopaedias, despotically, dimercaprols, discrepantly, displaceable, displacement, episodically, kaleidoscope, nucleocapsid, paramedicals, peccadilloes, placidnesses, postcardlike, psychedelias, reduplicates.
	+5 letters: diencephalons, disciplinable, displacements, dyspeptically, encyclopedias, kaleidoscopes, kaleidoscopic, nucleocapsids, perissodactyl, polydactylies, pseudoclassic, quadriplegics, relandscaping, sextuplicated, unspecialized.
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