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Redevelop

Definitions: Redevelop

Redevelop

Verb

1. Develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print.

2. Formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis.

3. Change the plans for the use of (land).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "redevelop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)



Synonym: Redevelop

Synonym: reformulate (v). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Redevelop

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Build a new container terminal at Ostrow Grabowski Redevelop part of the bulk cargo area by filling the unused Notecki Basin to create a large modern storage area alongside the deep berth for bulk cargo and steel products. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Redevelop

"Redevelop" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "Redevelop" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)94.12%4849,194
Lexical Verb (base form)5.88%3202,518
                    Total100.00%51N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Redevelop

Language Translations for "redevelop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏تحديث (modernization). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

再开发 (redevelopment). (various references)

   

French

  

rénover (recondition, redecorate, redeem, renovate, repair, restore). (various references)

   

German

  

sanieren (rehabilitate, renovate, to rehabilitate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

újra előhív (to redevelop). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edevelopray

   

Russian 

  

реконструировать (realign, rearrange, rebuild, reconstruct, remodel, restore), перестраивать (realign, rearrange, rebuild, recondition, reconfigure, re-configure, reconstruct, re-form, reprepare, restructure). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeniden tab etmek, yeniden geliştirmek, tekrar imar etmek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Redevelop

Derivations

Words beginning with "redevelop": redeveloped, redeveloper, redevelopers, redeveloping, redevelopment, redevelopments, redevelops. (additional references)

Words containing "redevelop": predevelopment, predevelopments. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Redevelop"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "redevelop" (pronounced rēdive"lup)
7-d i v e" l u pdevelop.
5-v e" l u penvelop.
3-l u pdollop, fillip, gallop, Julep, polyp, scallop, tulip, wallop.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Redevelop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: developer.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-l-o-p-r-v"

-1 letter: develope.

-2 letters: deplore, develop, levered, reveled.

-3 letters: deeper, delver, eloped, eloper, leered, leveed, overed, pedler, peeled, peeler, peered, peeved, plover, polder, proved, reeled, reeved, releve, repled, veered.

-4 letters: delve, devel, doper, drove, elder, elope, elver, epode, erode, leper, levee, lever, loped, loper, loved, lover, older, pedro, peeve, poled, poler, pored, preed, prole, prove, reeve, repel, revel, roped, roved, voled.

-5 letters: deep, deer, dele, dere, doer, dole, dope, dore, dorp, dove, dree, drop, epee, ever, leer, levo, lode, lope, lord, lore, love, oped, orle, over, peed, peel, peer, pele, pled, plod, pole, pore, pree, prod, rede, redo, reed, reel, repo, rode, role, rope, rove, veep, veer, veld, vole.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-l-o-p-r-v"
 

+1 letter: developers, overleaped, redevelops.

 

+2 letters: codeveloper, overdevelop, overpedaled, overpeopled, redeveloped, redeveloper.

 

+3 letters: codevelopers, overdevelops, overpedalled, redevelopers, redeveloping.

 

+4 letters: overdeveloped, overexplained, overexploited, redevelopment.

 

+5 letters: overdeveloping, overprivileged, overspeculated, predevelopment, redevelopments, underdeveloped.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Redevelop


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 64 65 76 65 6C 6F 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    -..    .    ...-    .    .-..    ---    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100100 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101100 01101111 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#108 &#111 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 0065 0076 0065 006C 006F 0070

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527170718871788182

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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