repair
part of speech
verb (repair, repairs, repaired, repairing); noun (a repair, repairs)
meaning for a pupil
1) To repair is to fix something that is broken or damaged. tree →
2) A repair is the work of fixing, or the place that was fixed. tree →
3) «In good repair» means in good condition. tree →
4) To repair to a place means to go there, especially in a formal way. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: things fixed at a rate; the cost of a repair; a length of road repaired and left to repair (repaired + left = whole). In everyday life: repairing a bike puncture, a shoe repair shop, roadworks. In science and design: mending things instead of throwing them away helps the planet. Phrases: «under repair», «repair shop», «beyond repair», «in good repair».
examples
- He repairs 4 bikes a day. tree →
- The repair costs 25 dollars. tree →
- Workers repaired 300 m of road. tree →
- How much road is left to repair? tree →
- Dad repaired the puncture in my tyre. tree →
- The road is closed for repairs. tree →
- My old teddy was beyond repair. tree →
- Repairing things instead of buying new ones saves money and waste. tree →
- Polynices now repaired to Argos, where he arrived in the dead of night. tree →
note
«Repair» is a bit more formal than «fix» or «mend». Maths: repaired so far and left to repair add up to the whole. Trap: «repairs 4 bikes a day» is a rate — multiply by the days.
In the corpora
- Tenants who cannot get a repair done may complain more than once or ask the council for help.
- Some dams have been repaired for hundreds of years by family after family of beavers, each one fixing the dam it inherited.
- Skin is also a brilliant repair kit.
- "Needs some TLC" ("tender loving care") means a place is in bad condition and needs repairs.
- "Full of character" in a house advert often means old and needing repairs.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «repair» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.