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# displace

«displace» in Mova's school dictionary: **to push it out of its place or take its place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (displace, displaces, displaced, displacing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To displace something is to push it out of its place or take its place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displace/#m1)

2) To displace people is to force them to leave their homes, for example because of war or floods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displace/#m2)

3) In science, an object put in water displaces (pushes aside) some of the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displace/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, an object dropped into water displaces water and the level rises; the displaced water's volume equals the object's volume, a way to measure odd shapes. In geography and news, floods or wars displace families. Phrases: displaced people, displacement of water.

### examples

- The stone displaced water and the level rose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displace/#x1)
- Floods displaced thousands of families. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displace/#x2)
- The new road displaced many birds from the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displace/#x3)
- Measure how much water the toy displaces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displace/#x4)
- A ship displaces a lot of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displace/#x5)
- Weeds can displace native plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displace/#x6)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: displacement. In maths/science: volume of object = water level after − water level before; e.g. from 200 ml to 250 ml means 50 ml (50 cm³) was displaced.

### In the corpora

- ["Internally displaced person" means someone forced from home who is still inside their own country.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/18/)
- [An object in water pushes some water out of the way; we say it displaces the water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/3/)
- [A floating object pushes aside, or displaces, some water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «displace» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/displace/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.