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" The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living."
Alan Rosenberg

Meaning of "displacement" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DISPLACEMENT

dɪsˈpleɪsmənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISPLACEMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Displacement is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DISPLACEMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of displacement in the English dictionary

The first definition of displacement in the dictionary is the act of displacing or the condition of being displaced. Other definition of displacement is the weight or volume displaced by a floating or submerged body in a fluid. Displacement is also the volume displaced by the piston of a reciprocating pump or engine.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISPLACEMENT

abasement · basement · casement · debasement · defacement · effacement · embracement · emplacement · encasement · enlacement · incasement · interlacement · misplacement · outplacement · placement · replacement · retracement · self-abasement · semibasement · subbasement

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISPLACEMENT

displace · displaceable · displaced · displaced person · displacement activity · displacement ton · displacement tonnage · displacer · displant · displantation · display · display ad · display advertisement · display advertising · display cabinet · display case · display pack · display panel · display screen · display unit

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISPLACEMENT

abonnement · achievement · advertisement · agreement · amusement · announcement · apartment · arrangement · element · enforcement · engagement · implement · improvement · infringement · management · measurement · movement · requirement · retirement · statement · supplement

Synonyms and antonyms of displacement in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DISPLACEMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «displacement» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «displacement» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DISPLACEMENT

Find out the translation of displacement to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of displacement from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «displacement» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

替代
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

desplazamiento
570 millions of speakers
en

English

displacement
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

विस्थापन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النزوح
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

смещение
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

deslocamento
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

উত্পাটন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

déplacement
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Anjakan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Vertreibung
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

置き換え
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

대체
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Pamindhahan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chuyển
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

இடப்பெயர்ச்சி
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

विस्थापन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

deplasman
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

rimpiazzo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

przemieszczenie
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

зміщення
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

deplasare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μετατόπιση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verplasing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förskjutning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forskyvning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of displacement

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISPLACEMENT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of displacement
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «displacement».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about displacement

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «DISPLACEMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word displacement.
1
Mahmoud Abbas
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
2
Mahmoud Abbas
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
3
Judith Butler
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
4
Ana Castillo
I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.
5
Atom Egoyan
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
6
Aleksandar Hemon
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
7
Deborah Copaken Kogan
I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.
8
Walter Kohn
In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
9
Alan Rosenberg
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
10
Muqtada al Sadr
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISPLACEMENT»

Discover the use of displacement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to displacement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Displacement
After tragedy strikes her family, Vera runs away to a small desert town where she tries unsuccessfully to forget her grief and sorrow.
Thalia Chaltas, 2011
2
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity
This collection succeeds in ways which are thought provoking and likely to lead to vital discussions across disciplines."-- David Lloyd, University of California, Berkeley
Smadar Lavie, Ted Swedenburg, 1996
3
Displacement
The interdependence between book and exhibition, which is a motif of Weiner's career, here finds concise expression in a volume that is a treat to move through.
Lawrence Weiner, Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.), 1991
4
Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics
In this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory.
Bonnie Honig, 1993
5
Gentrification, Displacement, and Neighborhood Revitalization
This is the first broad-based survey of a scattered literature that has not been readily accessible.
J. John Palen, Bruce London, 1984
6
Forcible Displacement Throughout the Ages: Towards an ...
This book analyses the anthropological, historical, and legal contours of the crime of forcible displacement and proposes specific measures that the international community can adopt in order to prevent and/or punish the perpetration of the ...
Grant Dawson, Sonia Farber, 2012
7
Development-induced Displacement: Problems, Policies, and People
From 1998 to 2002, he coordinated a project on development-induced displacement and resettlement for the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, on which this collection is based.
C. J. De Wet, 2006
8
Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement
This book analyzes the causes and consequences of population displacement, including its devastating impact both within and beyond the borders of affected countries.
Roberta Cohen, Francis Mading Deng, 2012
9
Human Rights and Forced Displacement
By Dr. Francis Deng.
Anne Fruma Bayefsky, Joan Fitzpatrick, 2000
10
Displacement
Contains one novella and four short stories about aliens and alternate worlds.
Colin Harvey, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISPLACEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term displacement is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Compact Capacitive Displacement Sensor supports up to 6 channels.
USA — The CPL230 is new precision capacitive displacement sensor system from Lion Precision featuring up to six sensors in a small space. «ThomasNet News, Jul 15»
2
DNA damage response The spliceosome cashes in at the ATM
The depletion of these proteins from chromatin, which was caused by their displacement from DNA lesions, was prevented by inhibiting ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
Elmar Mammadyarov: Displacement of Azerbaijanis is a direct result …
-On 16 June 2015, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced its judgment (Merits) on the case of ... «AZERTAC News, Jul 15»
4
Insulation displacement connectors are reliable alternative to crimping
“Insulation displacement connectors are used as a means to reliably and cost-effectively connect high volumes of wires for power and data ... «Assembly Magazine, Jul 15»
5
Whittier Narrows Parks: A Story of Water, Power and Displacement
"East of East" is a series of original essays about people, things, and places in South El Monte and El Monte. The material traces the arrival and ... «KCET, Jul 15»
6
Knisley's 'Displacement' sympathetic, funny
Lucy Knisley captures this dilemma perfectly in her graphic travelogue, “Displacement.” It relates to the readers a cruise that she took in 2012 ... «The Almanac, Jul 15»
7
Internal displacement doubles in Libya since September, UN …
With sporadic fighting in the south and a resumption of tribal tensions between the Tebu and Tuareg communities, the displacement situation ... «UN News Centre, Jun 15»
8
WATCH: The triple displacement of Umm el-Hiran
The Israeli military government moved the residents of Umm el-Hiran to their current location in the 1950s. Now, the government wants to force ... «+972 Magazine, Jun 15»
9
MP complains about forcible displacement of citizens from Bau …
Komundan Joda, a member of Sudan's National Legislative Assembly says that citizens from his constituency in Blue Nile's Bau Locality have ... «Radio Tamazuj, Jun 15»
10
'Killa' review: The film evokes an authentic sense of displacement
Based on the director's own experiences growing up, Killa evokes an authentic sense of displacement and 'not-fitting-in'. Chinmay acts out by ... «IBNLive, Jun 15»
REFERENCE
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