Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. repairen, OF. repairier, to return, fr. L. repatriare, to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re-, re- + patria, native country, fr. pater, father. See Father, and cf. Repatriate
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
O. Fr. reparer—L. reparāre—re-, again, parāre, to prepare.
In literature:
The man of the house finally took all the disabled umbrellas to the repairer's.
"Jokes For All Occasions" by Anonymous
All hands were instantly set to work to repair damages, to be ready for her in case she should return.
"Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships" by W.H.G. Kingston
The frigates' damages being now repaired, a course was steered for the north.
"Ben Burton" by W. H. G. Kingston
We had plenty of work in repairing damages, clearing away the wreck of the fore-top mast, and getting a new one ready to send aloft.
"Paddy Finn" by W. H. G. Kingston
This he did in the hope that they would be prevented from repairing damages and be enabled to escape.
"Will Weatherhelm" by W.H.G. Kingston
Why do you repair in the way you do?
"Newton Forster" by Captain Frederick Marryat
The Cincinnati and Mound City were also speedily repaired and again in service by the end of the month.
"The Gulf and Inland Waters" by A. T. Mahan
Her directions were to repair to the back door, which looked out upon some fields, and give three taps.
"The Pacha of Many Tales" by Frederick Marryat
It is useless to repeat it; and if you do, I shall consider it an insult, and immediately repair on board of my vessel.
"The Privateersman" by Frederick Marryat
Now you may go, and as soon as your uniforms arrive, you will repair on board.
"Peter Simple" by Frederick Marryat
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In poetry:
At last Bishop Hatto appointed a day
To quiet the poor without delay;
He bade them to his great Barn repair,
And they should have food for the winter there.
"God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop" by Robert Southey
For these there is room and welcome, too,
For there's land quite enough and to spare,
But we pray that all the vicious crew
To their homes o'er the sea may repair.
"Liberty" by Jared Barhite
THESE reasons strongly with the mother weighed;
Her visit to the 'squire was not delayed;
With fond affection for her darling heir,
One morn, alone she sought the lorn repair.
"The Falcon" by Jean de La Fontaine
Had not our blessed Saviour been so kind,
To suffer death for us upon the cross;
The world had, for that fault, been all confin'd
In Hell, and none cou'd have repair'd the loss.
"Stanza's Concerning Some Persons And Things, That Are Mentioned In The Holy Scriptures" by Rees Prichard
By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair
To dwell, a weeping hermit, there!
"How Sleep The Brave" by William Taylor Collins
Now to that place their feet repairs
Where Priests send folks to bliss by pairs;
Where Happiness, a lovely guest,
Enters, and sooths the mind at least.
Serene's the view for one short space,
And not a cloud dares shew its face.
"The Wager" by William Hutton
In news:
As a hobby, I build furniture and do repair work around the house, but sometimes the projects don't work out.
Joe's Master Service Center is the place to go for all your automotive service and repair needs.
City's repair plan could cost taxpayer.
Lineman will likely need surgery to repair face.
"When the economy gets bad," he says, "people have a tendency to repair what they have, rather than buy new things.
The statue of Christopher Columbus outside Union Station is in need of repair.
Chugging away at NYS&W repairs, CCIDA floats request for more county funding.
Trinity Church is swathed in scaffolding for restoration, repairs and cleaning of its spire and tower.
Workers repair a building in downtown Baghdad, Iraq.
Lucien, a redshirt freshman, will have surgery this week to repair the injury.
His popular Aloha Automotive repair business, located on Sawmill Road in Carlsborg, is now officially shuttered.
Woman gets clothes dryer repaired 5 times.
The 341-foot ferry that travels between Port Angeles and Victoria will travel to Dakota Creek Industries Shipyard in Anacortes for routine maintenance, repairs and upgrades.
President says nation's top priority now is repairing economy.
I have to really commend the DOT for their outstanding response to pothole repairs this year.
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In science:
On its way back it repairs all defects left behind during the first part of the journey, in both the site and bond versions.
Anomalous Roughness, Localization, and Globally Constrained Random Walks
The TPC itself was never modified and has required only minim al repairs during the five years since 1997.
The LXeGRIT Compton Telescope Prototype: Current Status and Future Prospects
FIG. 4: Reconstructed superoperators for the post-selected HOM process. a) superoperator as measured, b) predicted superoperator after repair.
Diagnosis, prescription and prognosis of a Bell-state filter by quantum process tomography
We analyze the correlation properties of the Erd¨os-R´enyi random graph (RG) and the Barab´asiAlbert scale-free network (SF) under the attack and repair strategy with detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA).
Detrended fluctuation analysis on the correlations of complex networks under attack and repair strategy
The fluctuations are quite random at short time scales but display strong anticorrelation at longer time scales under the same system size N and different repair probability pre .
Detrended fluctuation analysis on the correlations of complex networks under attack and repair strategy
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