different between repair vs unbrick

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

un- +? brick

Pronunciation

Verb

unbrick (third-person singular simple present unbricks, present participle unbricking, simple past and past participle unbricked)

1. (transitive) To reopen something bricked up.
   • 1963, Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means, London: Macmillan, Chapter 8,

     The skylight, although it had been bricked up by someone’s hysterical order, at that time in the past when a man had penetrated the attic-floor of the club to visit a girl, was not beyond being unbricked by the firemen. It was all a question of time.
2. (transitive, slang, computing) To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).
   • 2007, Paul Asadoorian, Larry Pesce, Linksys WRT54G: ultimate hacking (page 327)

     Using JTAG to Unbrick Your Router