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Definition: Refurbish |
RefurbishVerb1. Make brighter and prettier, as of a house. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: RefurbishSynonyms: freshen up (v), renovate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Preparation | Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Refurbish |
| Specialty definitions using "refurbish": maintenance worker, house trailer, MOBILE-HOME-LOT UTILITY WORKER. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | As fashions change fast, homes do, too. Germans have become more mobile and, consequently, tend to refurbish their home more often. (references) | |
These include large companies that mainly produce new parts/components and refurbish used parts, as well as smaller "shop-type" companies that specialize in remanufacturing. (references) | ||
Many owners of older buildings are faced with increasing pressure to refurbish their buildings as competition intensified due to the completion of newer developments over the next two years. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Burma | State-controlled news media frequently depict junta members paying homage to Buddhist monks, making donations at pagodas throughout the country, officiating at ceremonies to open, improve, restore, or maintain pagodas, and organizing ostensibly voluntary "people's donations" of money, food, and uncompensated labor to build or refurbish Buddhist religious shrines throughout the country. (references) |
Economic History | Eritrea | Since independence, the GSE has invested substantial capital to refurbish the two sectors. (references) |
Burma | In 2000, Japan announced plans to significantly boost ODA aid to Burma, including $28 million to refurbish (in stages) the Baluchaung dam. (references) | |
Human Rights | Estonia | The Government continued to implement a multiyear plan to refurbish and restructure all of the country's prisons. (references) |
Political Economy | NIGERIA | The democratically elected civilian government of President Olusegun Obasanjo, inaugurated in May 1999, embarked on a program to improve the country's economic performance and refurbish its image. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Refurbish" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.08% of the time. "Refurbish" is used about 65 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 83.08% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.23% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.69% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "refurbish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rinovoj (do up, recondition, renovate), përtërij (freshen, innovate, regenerate, rejuvenate, renew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جدد (freshen, furbish, innovate, modernize, reawaken, recondition, redeem, regenerate, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retrieve), رمم (furbish, mend, patch, recondition, reconstructed, redeem, refit, refurbishment, rehabilitate, renovate, repair, restore, revamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | почиствам (clean, clean out, clean up, overcast, rake, rumble, whip, wipe clean), подновявам (do up, furbish, novelise, novelize, redintegrate, renew, renovate, reopen, reproduce, restore, resume, revamp, take up, vamp), излъсквам (abrade, gloss, polish up, rub up, varnish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 再磨光. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | روشن وتازه کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | remettre neuf (recondition, renovate, restore), réaménager. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | aufpolieren (brighten, furbish, polish up, revamp, to refurbish, vamp up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στιλβώ πάλι (repolish), φρεσκάρω (brush up, do up, freshen, refresh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ללטש (grind, polish, sharpen, smarten, whet), לח"ש (furbish, innovate, modernize, renew, revive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felfrissít (brush up, freshen, perk, refresh, to brush up, to enliven, to freshen, to recruit, to refresh, to refurbish, to renew, to revive, to touch up), újratisztít, újra rendbe hoz (to refurbish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | membarui (modernise, reform, regenerate, renew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rinnovare (be renewed, change, furbish, happen again, redecorate, renew, renovate, repeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | efurbishray renovar (bud, coppicing, furbish, modernize, recondition, refit, renew, renovate, resprouting, restore, update). (various references) обновлять (freshen, innovate, novelise, novelize, renew, renovate, vitalize). (various references) obnoviti (re establish, reestablish, renew, renovate). (various references) restaurar (bring back, do up, furbish up, renovate, restore, to restore). (various references) renovera (furbish up, recondition, renovate). (various references) yenilemek (make over, modernize, rebuild, recondition, re-create, redintegrate, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, revamp, touch up, vamp up), cilasını tazelemek. (various references) підновлювати (renovate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "refurbish": refurbished, refurbisher, refurbishers, refurbishes, refurbishing, refurbishment, refurbishments. (additional references) | |
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"Refurbish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: referbish, refubish, Refurb, refurbisb, refurbishe, refurbrish, refurbs, repurbish, reurbish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "refurbish" (pronounced rēfer"bish) |
| 3 | -b i sh | rubbish, snobbish. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: brushfire, furbisher. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-f-h-i-r-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: brushier, bushfire. | |
-2 letters: bruiser, brusher, buriers, bushier, friseur, fubsier, fuhrers, furbish, hurries, rushier, surfier. | |
-3 letters: briefs, briers, bruise, burier, buries, busher, busier, fibers, fibres, firers, fisher, friers, fuhrer, furies, hirers, hubris, rubier, rubies, rusher, sherif, surfer. | |
-4 letters: biers, birrs, birse, brief, brier, bries, brush, buhrs, burrs, burse, fiber, fibre, firer, fires, fresh, frier, fries, frise, heirs, herbs, hirer, hires, rebus, reifs, ribes, rifer, riser, rubes, ruers, serif, shier, shire, shirr, shrub, sieur, suber, surer, usher. | |
-5 letters: bier, birr, bise, brie, bris, buhr, burr, burs, bush, errs, fehs, feus, fibs, fire, firs, fish, fubs, furs, fuse, heir, herb, hers, hies, hire, hubs, hues, ires, rebs, refs, reif, reis, resh, rhus, ribs, rife, rifs, rise, rube, rubs, ruer, rues, ruse, rush, seif, serf, shri, sire, suer, sure, surf, urbs, user. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-f-h-i-r-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: brushfires, furbishers. | |
+2 letters: refurbished, refurbisher, refurbishes. | |
+3 letters: refurbishers, refurbishing. | |
+4 letters: refurbishment. | |
+5 letters: refurbishments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 66 75 72 62 69 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ..-. ..- .-. -... .. ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100110 01110101 01110010 01100010 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e f u r b i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0066 0075 0072 0062 0069 0073 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527172878468758574 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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