different between repair vs reparation

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???p??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???p??/, /???p??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Etymology 1

Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin repar? (“renew, repair”).

Verb

repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)

1. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
2. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:repair

Derived terms

• repairable, reparable
• repairer

Translations

Noun

repair (countable and uncountable, plural repairs)

1. The act of repairing something.
2. The result of repairing something.

3. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.

Derived terms

• disrepair

Related terms

• reparation
• reparative

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English repairen (“to return”), from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare (“to return to one's country”), from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repatriate.

Noun

repair (plural repairs)

1. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
2. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.

   • There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair.

Translations

Verb

repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)

2. To transfer oneself to another place.

Derived terms

• repatriate

Translations

Etymology 3

From re- +? pair.

Verb

repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)

1. to pair again

Further reading

• repair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• repair in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “repair” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “repair”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Rapier, pairer, rapier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reparatio, reparationis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reparation (countable and uncountable, plural reparations)

1. (usually in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s).

   • I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.

2. (archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.

   the reparation of a bridge or of a highway

   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

     The church at Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday.

Synonyms

• (a payment): restitution, compensation, amends, satisfaction
• (a renewing): restoration, repair

Related terms

• repair
• reparative

Translations

See also

• war reparations

Anagrams

• Praetorian, Prætorian, praetorian, prætorian

Swedish

Etymology

reparera +? -tion

Noun

reparation c

1. a repair (mending something broken)

Declension