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Remodel

Definitions: Remodel

Remodel

Verb

1. 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: Remodel

Synonyms: recast (v), reconstruct (v), redo (v), reforge (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Remodel

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Remodel

English words defined with "remodel": New-model. (references)
Specialty definitions using "remodel": cinetechnicianFUR-REPAIR INSPECTORINSTRUMENT-MAKER AND REPAIRERMACHINIST, MOTION-PICTURE EQUIPMENT, motion-picture-camera repairer. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Remodel

DomainTitle

Books

  • Design, Remodel and Build Your Bathroom (reference)

  • Dodge Repair & Remodel Cost Book 1995 (reference)

  • Home Repair & Remodel Cost Guide (reference)

  • How to Design, Build, Remodel, and Maintain Your Home (reference)

  • Kitchens: Plan, Remodel, Build (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Remodel

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Non-Fiction Usage: Remodel

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Remodel

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)90.91%2078,262
Lexical Verb (base form)9.09%2245,945
                    Total100.00%22N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Remodel

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Remodel

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

переделывать (adapt, alter, customize, makeover, readjust, recast, recondition, redo, re-do, re-done, rehash, remade, remake, revamp, rework, turn, unmake). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prepraviti (alter, redecorate, redo, remake, revamp, rework), preobraziti (metamorphose, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

remodelar (reshuffle, restyle, tart up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

omdana, bygga om (rebuild). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Remodel

Derivations

Words beginning with "remodel": remodeled, remodeling, remodelled, remodelling, remodels. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Remodel"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "remodel" (pronounced rēmÄ"dul)
5-m Ä" d u lmodel.
4-Ä" d u lcaudal, Coddle, toddle, twaddle, Waddle.
3-d u laddle, 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.

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Anagrams: Remodel

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Remodel


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

52 65 6D 6F 64 65 6C

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 01101101 01101111 01100100 01100101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#109 &#111 &#100 &#101 &#108

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)

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

52717981707178

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INDEX

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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