different between repair vs satisfaction

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 satisfactio, satisfactionis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæt?s?fæk??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

satisfaction (countable and uncountable, plural satisfactions)

1. A fulfilment of a need or desire.

2. The pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.
   • November 4, 1860, Henry David Thoreau, letter to Mr. D. R.

     This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

   • Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

3. The source of such gratification.
4. A reparation for an injury or loss.
5. A vindication for a wrong suffered.

Translations

Derived terms

• satisfaction note
• satisfaction piece
• satisfaction theory of atonement

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin satisfactio, satisfactionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.tis.fak.sj??/

Noun

satisfaction f (uncountable)

1. satisfaction
2. fulfilment
3. pleasure

Synonyms

• (fulfilment): assouvissement
• (pleasure): plaisir

Further reading

• “satisfaction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).