Repair thee hence! But with heed.

But whatever you do, don't use repair with that meaning unless you're very sure it's one of the rare occasions when it would be OK to do that. I mean, of course, the meaning that the word repair has in the title of this post. 

Yesterday, I left a couple of comments on Mimi's and Dee's posts on dictionaries (Dee, 2009; MamiJung_Mimi, 2009). In both I reported my research and findings on how a few dictionaries report on the word repair. 

After doing that, I decided it would be a good idea to recheck the OED entry for the word. In fact, the OED lists  four separate entries for repair: two as nouns and two as verbs. It was when I was browsing the the first entry for repair the verb that I realised where the English-Thai dictionary at Longdo gives the very misleading definition of "[VT] ไปเป็นประจำ, Syn. go" for the meaning of repair (repair, n.d.). The OED's entry 1.b is "To resort to a place or person; to go commonly, frequently, or in numbers,"(repair, 2009) so my guess is that the editors who compiled the English-Thai dictionary that Longdo reports simply went through the full Oxford English Dictionary and translated into Thai all the main definitions for the words they had selected, even when those definitions were very rarely used. As I note in one of my comments on Dee's post, the editors of the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary made a better decision about which definitions to include, although they do give a separate entry for the phrase repair to somewhere, noting that it is formal. 

Why choose repair?  It's a word I often use to test dictionaries because it is a fairly common word in English, and one that we would expect native speakers and advanced learners to know. However, it also has a range of very uncommon meanings that most native English speakers do not know. I once tested it on a few AUA teachers, including supervisors: most do not know that it can be used to mean "go to". I think that how a dictionary treats words like this is something to look for in deciding how good they are. Of course, itwould be great to have all the definitions of all the words, but that is impossible. The 1989 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary listed 291,500 words, and the online version that I use contains all of that and a lot more ("Dictionary facts", 2009).  But there are a lot more words in English that are not there; many words that people use never make it into any dictionary.  And it would be confusing to have to sort through large numbers of words and definitions that you probably don't want because they are very unusual; that is the job of a good dictionary editor. 

Heed is probably in your dictionary, but it's generally only found in formal use. 

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References

Dee. (2009, May 5). Dictionaries. Message posted to http://peteraep.blogspot.com/2009/05/dictionaries.html  

Dictionary facts. (2009). Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved May 6, 2009 from http://dictionary.oed.com/about/facts.html

MamiJung_Mimi. (2009, May 5). About dictionary. Message posted to http://peteraep.blogspot.com/2009/05/about-dictionary.html 

repair (n.d.). Longdo dict. Retrieved May 6, 2009 from http://dict.longdo.com/search/repair 

repair,  v.1 (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary. (2nd ed.)  In OED Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved May 6, 2009, from http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50202891