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Definitions: Remodel |
RemodelVerb1. Do over, as of (part of) a house; "We are remodeling these rooms". 2. Cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "remodel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: RemodelSynonyms: recast (v), reconstruct (v), redo (v), reforge (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuance in action | Convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form; remodel, new model, refound, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to. |
Improvement | Reform, remodel, reorganize; new model. |
Revolution | Verb: revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; strike out something new, break with the past; change the face of, unsex. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Remodel |
| English words defined with "remodel": New-model. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "remodel": cinetechnician ♦ FUR-REPAIR INSPECTOR ♦ INSTRUMENT-MAKER AND REPAIRER ♦ MACHINIST, MOTION-PICTURE EQUIPMENT, motion-picture-camera repairer. (references) |
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Health | To prevent their own death, living neurons must constantly maintain and remodel themselves. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | Religious organizations must obtain government permission to hold training seminars, conventions, and celebrations outside of the regular religious calendar, to build or remodel places of worship, to engage in charitable activities or operate religious schools, and to train, ordain, promote, or transfer clergy. (references) |
Economic History | Kazakhstan | Companies are frequently required to pay back wages, remodel factories and plants, and meet certain production targets. (references) |
Netherlands | In addition, there is a good DIY market for repair and remodel work given the large number of old homes and the growing number of home-owners. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Remodel" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Remodel" is used about 22 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) | 90.91% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
kitchen remodel | 588 | bedroom remodel | 14 |
bathroom remodel | 498 | america remodel | 12 |
remodel | 280 | kitchen photo remodel | 11 |
home remodel | 210 | omaha remodel tour | 11 |
basement remodel | 114 | remodel kitchen cabinet | 11 |
bath remodel | 78 | bathroom remodel cost | 11 |
house remodel | 35 | small kitchen remodel | 11 |
los angeles remodel | 32 | remodel living room | 10 |
co remodel | 30 | remodel cost | 9 |
remodel fireplace | 28 | home remodel plan | 9 |
garage remodel | 27 | remodel pool | 9 |
attic remodel | 26 | dreammaker remodel.com | 9 |
kitchen and remodel and idea | 21 | remodel renovation room | 9 |
remodel kitchen picture | 21 | closet remodel | 8 |
remodel small bathroom | 20 | level remodel split | 8 |
remodel bathroom idea | 19 | kitchen design remodel | 8 |
basement picture remodel | 16 | galley kitchen remodel | 8 |
shower remodel | 16 | remodel design | 7 |
kitchen remodel cost | 15 | remodel a room | 7 |
picture bathroom remodel | 15 | ranch remodel | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "remodel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rimodeloj (recast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير البنية, عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, redress, regulate, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, straighten, temper), جدد الصياغة, أعاد التنظيم (rehash, reorder, revamp), أعاد البناء (rebuild, reconstruct). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | реконструирам (reconstitute, reconstruct, reshuffle, restore), реорганизирам (reorganize, retool), ремонтирам (mend, recondition, redo, refit, renovate, repair, service), променям (alter, change, change to, differentiate, graduate, leaven, modify, mutate, reshape, reverse, shade, shift, turn, vary), преработвам (adapt, overwork, process, recast, recycle, rehandle, revamp, revise, work, work over, write over), прекроявам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 重新塑 (remodeled), "裝 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přetvořit (remake, transform, transmute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | omsætte (recompose, remake up, reset), ombryde (make into page, remake up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | in de vorm omzetten (remake up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تغییروضع دادن , تعمیرکردن (Imp, Mend, Patch, Refashion, Refit, Rehash, Renovate, Repair, Restore, Tinker, Vamp), عوض کردن (Alter, Change, Exchange, Swap, Vary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | muodostaa uudelleen (build a new government, reorganize), muodostaa toisenlaiseksi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | remanier (recast, rehash, remake up, reshuffle, revise, rewrite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | umgestalten (alter, metamorphose, rearrange, reorganize, revamps, to metamorphose, to refashion, to reform, to remodel, to transfigure, transfigure, transform). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετασχηματίζω σελίδα (remake up), μετασχηματίζω (change, modify, restructure, to transform, transform), μεταποιώ (alter, remake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | átalakít (convert, metamorphose, modify, remake, reshuffle, revamp, to convert, to do up, to make over, to realign, to reblock, to reshape, to reshuffle, to retrofit, to transfigure, to transform, to translate, to transmogrify, to transmute, transform, transmogrify, transmute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengubah bentuk (transform). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ristrutturare (do up, renovate, restore, restructure), rimaneggiare (recast, rehash, remake up, reshape, reshuffle, rewrite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 개장하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aachummey (deform, deformation, hash up, reconstitute, reconstitution, reform, reformation, renew, renovate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emodelray reorganizar (reorganize), remodelar (improve, recast), refundir (recast, revise), refazer (realign, rebuild, recast, reconstruct, rehash, remake, repeat), recorrer (appeal, betake, call on, call upon, fall behind, remake up, resort, run), transformar (convert, make known, metamorphosis, process, queer, reduce, remake, ruffle, to transform, transform, translate, transmute, turn, turn into). (various references) remodela, remania (reshuffle), reface (change, do over, do up, re establish, rebuild, recast, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recover, recruit, redress, reform, remake, repair, restore, retread, retrieve), modifica (alter, amend, change, modify, qualify, vary). (various references) переделывать (adapt, alter, customize, makeover, readjust, recast, recondition, redo, re-do, re-done, rehash, remade, remake, revamp, rework, turn, unmake). (various references) prepraviti (alter, redecorate, redo, remake, revamp, rework), preobraziti (metamorphose, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute). (various references) remodelar (reshuffle, restyle, tart up). (various references) omdana, bygga om (rebuild). (various references) yeni model uygulamak, değişiklik yapmak (alter, emend, innovate, modify, recast, shake up, work over), şeklini değiştirmek (change the form of, recast, redecorate, refashion, reshape, transfigure, transmogrify). (various references) реконструювати (overhaul, realign, rebuild, reconstruct), переробляти (adapt, alter, change, do again, furbish up, make over, readjust, recast, re-do, rehash, remake, revise, rework, transverse, turn over, work over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "remodel": remodeled, remodeling, remodelled, remodelling, remodels. (additional references) | |
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"Remodel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Armidel, Geomodel, ramrodded, Ramsdal, remode, remodl, rendel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "remodel" (pronounced rēmÄ"dul) |
| 5 | -m Ä" d u l | model. |
| 4 | -Ä" d u l | caudal, Coddle, toddle, twaddle, Waddle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, bindle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, caboodle, candle, caudle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, dwindle, feudal, fiddle, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, ladle, manhandle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, panhandle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, rekindle, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, tidal, trundle, Tweedle, twiddle, unbundle, vandal, Wedel, widdle, Windle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: modeler. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-m-o-r" | |
-1 letter: emerod, melder, molder, remold. | |
-2 letters: elder, erode, merde, merle, model, morel, older. | |
-3 letters: deem, deer, dele, deme, demo, dere, derm, doer, dole, dome, dore, dorm, dree, leer, lode, lord, lore, meed, meld, mere, merl, mode, mold, mole, more, omer, orle, rede, redo, reed, reel, rode, role. | |
-4 letters: dee, del, doe, dol, dom, dor, eel. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-m-o-r" | |
+1 letter: modelers, modeller, moldered, morseled, rebeldom, remodels, remolade, remolded. | |
+2 letters: ealdormen, embroiled, melodizer, modellers, morselled, mouldered, premolded, rebeldoms, rebloomed, remodeled, remolades, romeldale, smoldered, velodrome. | |
+3 letters: alderwomen, beclamored, beglamored, deformable, demolisher, demoralize, ectodermal, endodermal, entodermal, meliorated, melodizers, mesodermal, moderately, overmelted, overmilked, phelloderm, recompiled, reemployed, remodeling, remodelled, romeldales, smouldered, supermodel, velodromes. | |
+4 letters: aeromedical, ameliorated, beglamoured, deformalize, deglamorize, demolishers, demoralized, demoralizer, demoralizes, dilatometer, endometrial, meteoroidal, misenrolled, moneylender, mongrelized, overclaimed, overmuscled, overwhelmed, phelloderms, polymerised, polymerized, remobilized, remodelling, scleroderma, steamrolled, supermodels. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6D 6F 64 65 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -- --- -.. . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101101 01101111 01100100 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e m o d e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006D 006F 0064 0065 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52717981707178 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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