Hypertext Webster Gateway: "repair"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repair \Re*pair"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repaired} (-p?rd"); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Repairing}.] [F. r['e]parer, L. reparare; pref.
re- re- + parare to prepare. See {Pare}, and cf.
{Reparation}.]
1. To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury,
dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to
restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe,
or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.
Secret refreshings that repair his strength.
--Milton.
Do thou, as thou art wont, repair My heart with
gladness. --Wordsworth.
2. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to
indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
I 'll repair the misery thou dost bear. --Shak.
Syn: To restore, recover; renew; amend; mend; retrieve;
recruit.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repair \Re*pair"\ (r?-p?r"), v. i. [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}.]
1. To return. [Obs.]
I thought . . . that he repaire should again.
--Chaucer.
2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to
sanctuary for safety. --Chaucer.
Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair.
--Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repair \Re*pair"\, n. [OF. repaire retreat, asylum, abode. See
{Repair} to go.]
1. The act of repairing or resorting to a place. [R.]
--Chaucer.
The king sent a proclamation for their repair to
their houses. --Clarendon.
2. Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort. [R.]
There the fierce winds his tender force assail And
beat him downward to his first repair. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repair \Re*pair"\, n.
1. Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste,
injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss;
reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of
a church or of a city.
Sunk down and sought repair Of sleep, which
instantly fell on me. --Milton.
2. Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.;
as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of
repair.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
repair
n 1: the act of putting something in working order again [syn: {fix},
{fixing}, {mending}, {reparation}]
2: a formal way of referring to the condition of something;
"the building was in good repair"
3: a frequently visited place [syn: {haunt}, {hangout}, {resort},
{stamping ground}]
v : restore by replacing a part or putting together what is
torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my
shoes please" [syn: {mend}, {fix}, {bushel}, {doctor}, {furbish
up}, {restore}, {touch on}] [ant: {break}]
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